{"id":804,"date":"2016-08-26T12:03:35","date_gmt":"2016-08-26T16:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/?p=804"},"modified":"2016-08-26T11:56:49","modified_gmt":"2016-08-26T15:56:49","slug":"even-george-w-bush-had-his-moments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2016\/08\/even-george-w-bush-had-his-moments\/","title":{"rendered":"Even George W. Bush Had His Moments"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The week after 9\/11, George W. Bush went to a mosque and declared for everyone to hear that Muslims &#8216;love America just as much as I do.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HillaryClinton\/status\/768895648099921920\">August 25, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s1\">Imma level with you: That dude was not a PotUS I dug in the least\u2014I spent almost his entire two terms\u00a0on a travel watch list, bought a house that lost much of\u00a0its value in the economy he destroyed, watched civilizations crumble and collapse in response to his foreign adventures\u2014but I was still moved to tears of gratitude one night, driving home from the grocery and listening to NPR, when I heard him stand up for American Muslims following 9\/11. \u00a0He was not a good President, and I have every reason to believe he is not a particularly good person, but he still had his moments.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;course, by contrast to where we&#8217;re at now, GWB was a fucking statesman <em>nonpareil:<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p>\nStatement on Preventing Muslim Immigration: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HCWU16z6SR\">https:\/\/t.co\/HCWU16z6SR<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/d1dhaIs0S7\">pic.twitter.com\/d1dhaIs0S7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/673993417429524480\">December 7, 2015<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>and <\/p>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I took a grab of Trump&#8217;s &#8220;not racist&#8221; campaign spokeswoman&#8217;s tweet just in case she felt compelled to scrub it. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nZaLd4d2N7\">pic.twitter.com\/nZaLd4d2N7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 GottaLaff (@GottaLaff) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GottaLaff\/status\/768957838982995969\">August 25, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; and on and on and on.<\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t matter if you&#8217;ve been on the right side of every issue since November of 1999\u2014if you&#8217;ve voted right and protested right and written the right letters to the right reps and given the right donations to the right charities to do the right things\u00a0for the right people. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This, here, today is still the country that we have all made, together, for better or worse. \u00a0Like it or not, GWB was my president, and Obama is my president, and whoever\u2014or\u00a0<em>what<\/em>ever comes next\u2014will be my president, too. \u00a0God have mercy on my soul.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p>\nHard to believe it&#8217;s just 148 days until a spittle-flecked, full-throttle burkini freakout is inaugurated President of the United States.&#x1f1fa;&#x1f1f8;&#x1f525;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 David Erik Nelson (@SquiDaveo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SquiDaveo\/status\/768816471329771521\">August 25, 2016<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The week after 9\/11, George W. Bush went to a mosque and declared for everyone to hear that Muslims &#8216;love America just as much as I do.&#8217; \u2014 Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) August 25, 2016 Imma level with you: That dude was not a PotUS I dug in the least\u2014I spent almost his entire two terms\u00a0on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2016\/08\/even-george-w-bush-had-his-moments\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Even George W. Bush Had His Moments&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"_share_on_mastodon":"1"},"categories":[11],"tags":[30,53,43,56],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":808,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804\/revisions\/808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}