Never Was Fooled By GW

[Me.]

His little hand-holding with Michele, his paintings and smiley face...lot of sanitizing going on since he left office but the real W came back out with his calls in favor of Judge Abuser. He is as he always was and compassion has nothing to do with it.

[SHRED]

1. How Michelle is warm to this war criminal baffles me

[madaboutharry]

2. I don't get it.

[LandOfHopeAndDreams]

3. It's A Small Club

And WE are not invited.

[MarcA]

14. So Very True. n/t

[HipChick]

4. I don't think she is...ever been on the receiving end of someone that likes you

and you are trying to stay civil?

Michelle has more restraint that I do..

[SHRED]

5. I disagree but it's really trivial at this point anyway

[violetpastille]

6. I'm not trying to smear her by saying

It goes past civiility. She is not being civil when she has Sears Family Portraits taken with him with her arms wrapped around him lovingly. They sit together and gossip every public event posslible and clearly like each other.

I think half of the equation is political expediency and the other half is that she likes his bitchy sense of humor.

It makes me love her a bit less though. Ngl.

[Bettie]

10. Because she is a warm person

at heart and she is unfailingly polite and decent.

[SHRED]

11. Would she hug Osama bin Laden?

W is responsible for far more innocent people being killed than he ever was.

[Bettie]

13. I'm not going to criticize Mrs. Obama

Not today.

Yeah, W is a piece of shit. I'd spit on him if I ever saw him in person, but Michelle Obama is under constant scrutiny and is also, as I said, a warm and decent person, far more than I am...well, far more than I am now, I was different before the last election.

[Me.]

20. Well Said

[OnDoutside]

21. If she took a deep sea diving course, she probably would. She is a kind person.

[MaryMagdaline]

29. Yes and I think she sees W as a wounded duck

She probably sees this messed up person in front of her. Everyone who has ever met him says that he is much warmer in person and very engaging. Tony Blair: “I just like the guy.” ( His pathetic reason for going to war). Hell, even Hillary was moved when he said “tell me what you need” after 9/11.

Glad I’ve never gotten close. He’s still a war monger to me.

[yardwork]

23. It's for public show. It's politics. Don't read too much into it.

[ananda]

24. And Bill Clinton too

And yeah, it's totally mind boggling to me too.

[Gothmog]

7. Kavanaugh worked for W

W is not a nice person and did a great deal of damage to our country

[Me.]

9. And Those Cons Who Are Not Trumpists

need to get their act together and stop telling us what a great guy he was when they worked with him in W's WH. I'm talking to you Nicolle and Elise Jordan.

[llmart]

8. Yeah, I was getting a little sick of some on DU starting to give him a pass.

Let's not forget he is in the same class as Kavanaugh - the elite, white, frat boy class. An admitted alcoholic, now a dry drunk.

I'll cut him no slack whatsoever just because the bar has been lowered so far with Trump.

[WeekiWater]

12. W is a conservative.

Kav will simply vote the conservative side of issues every single time. He could be a consistent conservative vote for thirty plus years.

There is a lot I would look past when confirming a hard left 53yo jurist for the SC.

[Me.]

15. True But As Post #8 Points Out

he was being given a pass lately and looked upon as a good old boy

[WeekiWater]

16. I will never give him a pass.

I get what you are saying.

The closest thing to a pass I will give W is that I am glad he is sniffing paint fumes and not President.

[Me.]

17. Nor Should Any Of Us

[peekaloo]

18. I lived in Texas when he was Governor.

he's never stopped being an asshole.

[unitedwethrive]

19. Almost all of the repubs are salivating at the thought of controlling the Court for a generation.

Apparently it's a prize worth any cost to their perceived integrity.

[Martin Eden]

22. GW is a War Criminal

He belongs in prison.

[kskiska]

25. Harriet Miers

[Me.]

31. Very Appropriate Reminder

[dlk]

26. W Has Always Been a Vigorous Partisan - His "Aw Shucks" Demeanor is Just an Act

Scratch the surface, you'll find Dick Cheney's partner in crime.

[Bluepinky]

27. I've always hated W, he just reeks of white male privilege.

He was fine using his privileged status to avoid the draft and never complete his National Guard service,
he was fine with all the dirty tricks done to help him get elected,
he was fine with Bush vs. Gore Supreme Court decision,
he was fine with unprecedented tax cuts for the wealthy while running up the national debt,
he was fine with lying to the American people as justification to invade another country,
he was fine having sleazebags like Karl Rove and Brett Kavanaugh do his dirty work for him so he could look like the nice guy.
Now he wants to pretend all the above never happened.
I always liked his father, GW, more than him. He has always seemed more genuine and honest than his son (and he fought for his country when called).

[Varaddem]

28. Father and son

Never paid any consequences.

[shanny]

30. No duh.

He's a war criminal and another "legacy" self-absorbed narcissistic jerk with daddy issues (remember the socks with the presidential seal on them? and never making a mistake? and the thing he was going to miss the most was AF1?). He's may be less extreme and less obvious but he's also responsible for--so far--the deaths of many, many more people.