NotHardUp1
What? Me? Really?
The demonization of Barbara Bush is so comical. The far left appears so desperate when it reaches so far to make such bitter defeatist pronouncements. Aside from Barbara Bush never being an elected official or setting US policy on anything, she was the wife of a true moderate, far from the hard right conservative Ronald Reagan.
It is no wonder at all that she or even her husband, didn't take vocal positions loudly to the right or the left. I specifically remember her husband shying away from attending the right to life rallies in person. Politics is politics. They have to try to hold together a base. In fact, it is very likely that George H. W. Bush lost his 2nd term to Clinton because he was not extreme enough, specifically his refusal to block the new taxes passed in his first and only term.
I'm not a supporter of either Gulf War, but I do allow that presidents make mistakes. George Bush wasn't known for deceit. He was an experienced statesman and bureaucrat, and, unlike his son, I didn't question his motives as imperialist.
But, in the end, I'm ok with people disliking Barbara Bush. She was a strong personality, and she made enemies by being outspoken to the degree that she was. I trust history and the populace to assess more fairly than partisan contemporaries. And, as has been shared already, she was obviously far from the more clearly sinister Nancy Reagan. Whereas it may not be goodness to be better than the worst, I have heard enough good testimonials of her character to find that they far outnumber those who can only see vile.
This professor from Fresno used the death of Barbara Bush to take a jab and get her 15 minutes of fame: https://www.vox.com/2018/4/20/17257...no-state-professor-tweets-free-speech-college I don't support any move to have her fired, I think she is a perfect icon of the misguided zealot. The cause of social justice is never advanced by such gratuitous attacks on a person who hasn't been a key player in law, policy, or the culture wars. Activism works when the cause that is championed is made compelling by the careful presentation of truth, not by mere venting of pique.
Referring to any former first lady as a witch within a day of her death is a sure way to erode any sympathy for your cause. Politics is a skill, not a compulsion to speak.
And from all accounts, death will work very well for the Bush matriarch indeed.
It is no wonder at all that she or even her husband, didn't take vocal positions loudly to the right or the left. I specifically remember her husband shying away from attending the right to life rallies in person. Politics is politics. They have to try to hold together a base. In fact, it is very likely that George H. W. Bush lost his 2nd term to Clinton because he was not extreme enough, specifically his refusal to block the new taxes passed in his first and only term.
I'm not a supporter of either Gulf War, but I do allow that presidents make mistakes. George Bush wasn't known for deceit. He was an experienced statesman and bureaucrat, and, unlike his son, I didn't question his motives as imperialist.
But, in the end, I'm ok with people disliking Barbara Bush. She was a strong personality, and she made enemies by being outspoken to the degree that she was. I trust history and the populace to assess more fairly than partisan contemporaries. And, as has been shared already, she was obviously far from the more clearly sinister Nancy Reagan. Whereas it may not be goodness to be better than the worst, I have heard enough good testimonials of her character to find that they far outnumber those who can only see vile.
This professor from Fresno used the death of Barbara Bush to take a jab and get her 15 minutes of fame: https://www.vox.com/2018/4/20/17257...no-state-professor-tweets-free-speech-college I don't support any move to have her fired, I think she is a perfect icon of the misguided zealot. The cause of social justice is never advanced by such gratuitous attacks on a person who hasn't been a key player in law, policy, or the culture wars. Activism works when the cause that is championed is made compelling by the careful presentation of truth, not by mere venting of pique.
Referring to any former first lady as a witch within a day of her death is a sure way to erode any sympathy for your cause. Politics is a skill, not a compulsion to speak.
And from all accounts, death will work very well for the Bush matriarch indeed.
