Ignatius: Bush Didn't Go To Ground Zero Thursday Because It Would Have Sealed Obama's Reelection
For days, Bush hating media members have concocted a variety of mostly nefarious theories why former President George W. Bush opted not to join Barack Obama at Ground Zero Thursday.
The Washington Post's David Ignatius on this weekend's "Chris Matthews Show" claimed, "The reason that Bush didn’t go is the photograph of the two of them together would have locked the reelection of Barack Obama in 2012" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
DAVID IGNATIUS, WASHINGTON POST: President Obama thought that President Bush should get credit [for Obama's death] 'cause he invited him to go to Ground Zero. I think the reason that Bush didn’t go is the photograph of the two of them together would have locked the reelection of Barack Obama in 2012.
CHRIS MATTHEWS, HOST: Wow!
Isn't it amazing how people that covered a president for eight years have absolutely no clue what makes him tick?
Since he left the White House on January 20, 2009, Bush has done everything in his power to stay out of the limelight with the exception of the promotion of his book a few months ago. It therefore seems logical that he was employing the same principle and not trying to upstage the current Commander-in-Chief.
As for Ignatius's theory that a photograph of Bush and Obama together would seal the latter's reelection, the more intuitive conclusion is that anything that would remind Americans of the 43rd president's role in Sunday's raid on bin Laden would have diminished the image of the 44th president.
That is likely the precise reason Bush, ever mindful of his role as former president - something that Jimmy Carter still hasn't learned after 30 years! - said no.
Isn't it ironic how the same media that coo and fawn over Obama's supposed class and grace are oblivious to those characteristics when displayed by his predecessor?
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Iggy the stooge
Submitted by cats1cowboy on Sun, 05/08/2011 - 9:40pm.
Bush-bashing-syndrome strikes, again.
You are correct. The reason
Submitted by djm159 on Mon, 05/09/2011 - 12:21pm.
You are correct. The reason Bush didn't go was because he has too much class to turn the event in a campaign stop for Obama. Obama is politicizing the entire situation and using it to obtain campaign cash. Bush and Obama are the difference between ghetto trash and class. Bush is a statesman and a gentleman. Obama is a fraud and a crass politician. After the way Obama continues to trash Bush, if I were Bush (I have no class), i would have welcomed an opportunity to stand next to the HNIC and spit in his face.
Bush has more class
Submitted by Boudin on Sun, 05/08/2011 - 9:50pm.
In his discarded hair clippings, then Obama and his 10 best friends do in their entire being.
Billy Boy
Submitted by SnapTie on Sun, 05/08/2011 - 10:00pm.
Then what was the reason given for Bill Clinton not going after he was invited?
You know what
Submitted by hbnolikeee on Sun, 05/08/2011 - 10:12pm.
unless you're a mind reader, no one can possibly know the inner man and his reasons. However, the suggested reason, really doesn't sound like a bad thing. Hold that thought.
Utter Rubbish
Submitted by indiechad on Sun, 05/08/2011 - 10:20pm.
That is simply the stupidest comment I have heard in a long time. After all the Bush-bashing that the media does, not to mention the constant blame-for-all-things-bad-and-evil-in-America Obama himself assigns to Bush, to somehow suggest that Obama being photographed with Bush would "lock the reelection of Obama" is mind boggling. The only thing that surprises me is that I'm still surprised by the things these people come up with...
Chad
Too bad....
Submitted by adamsmith on Mon, 05/09/2011 - 6:56am.
It's too bad these MSM idiots don't remember being responsible for all the Bush bashing for 8 years, enough so that the man was booed at Obamalinsky's inauguration. He's had a consistent stand on being an ex-President who has stayed out of politics, like ALL decent ex-Presidents have done up until the twin abortions of Carter and Clinton. Bush being there wouldn't have locked in Obamalinsky's reelection. Going to be tough to do with $7 a gallon gas, one out of seven on food stamps, housing basically worthless, 22% unemployment, and the National Debt over $15 Trillion. That's not to say the MSM won't sugarcoat this Commie enough to get uninformed Americans to reelect this piece of Communist garbage(and the true President, President Soros.) This country is in big trouble due to political correctness and Constitutionally minded voters not doing much for the last forty years against this Soros funded onslaught. Hopefully in the words of useful idiot Bob Dylan, the times are a-changing.....
Bush didn't want to be
Submitted by ant on Sun, 05/08/2011 - 10:33pm.
Bush didn't want to be photographed together with Obama because that would have reminded "Tingles" that the President is black, something he forgot for an hour last year.
I DVR'd that and burst out
Submitted by amyshulk on Sun, 05/08/2011 - 10:48pm.
I DVR'd that and burst out laughing when David Ignatius said that! Really David? Just like President Clinton taking over his press conference conferred President Clinton's prowess to him? Oops, never happened.
OK, then it was like blaming and bashing President Bush while speaking on ANY subject conferred his respect for the former President? It shows in the polls, huh? Oops again!!!
Unless...
I figured President. Obama for a 180 out - whatever he says, watch what he does - it'll be 180 out. So by that standard {and the fact he continued/took to the 10th power actual policies by President Bush} He really NEEDED President Bush at that photo op - the surface voters would ignore the trash talk and see a moderate and it would keep the R's off balance and {hopefully} get them to overplay their hand.
OK, now I see where David was going - he still thinks it's the early 90's and we're a bunch of rubes!!!
Ronald Reagan
OK, now I see where David was
Submitted by Dan The Man 2 on Mon, 05/09/2011 - 2:07am.
OK, now I see where David was going - he still thinks it's the early 90's and we're a bunch of rubes!!
Lets hope the election in November 2012 proves him wrong.
How Insightful
Submitted by Chris Norman on Sun, 05/08/2011 - 10:57pm.
All these egos fighting to prove that they're the smartest, most knowledgeable, most insightful person in front of the camera. They're all analytic geniuses in their own minds - with a partisan liberal perspective, of course.....
Pres. Bush
Submitted by grammajane on Sun, 05/08/2011 - 11:12pm.
Pres. Bush is a gentleman, and a true patriot. Tingles and his extreme radical libs have no clue what gentleman and patriot mean. They are so obsessed with hat, lies and filth.
Sure, because that's what
Submitted by Chris Norman on Sun, 05/08/2011 - 11:30pm.
Sure, because that's what their side has to offer. Unfortunately, in our world today, class and dignity aren't appreciated by enough people- there are far too many who are comfortable with, if not admire, the ugliness, self-promotion, duplicity, and back biting found on the "reality" TV shows they love to watch.
No Class
Submitted by ohio granny on Mon, 05/09/2011 - 3:22pm.
President Bush is a class act. He has more class in his little finger than Obama has in his whole body. Class is not something Obama would recognize if it slapped him in the face.
Obama wanted to do to Bush
Submitted by stan25 on Sun, 05/08/2011 - 11:28pm.
Obama wanted to do to Bush the same thing that he did to Paul Ryan and the SCOTUS. Bash him in a forum that he could not fight back without looking petty. Let Obama and the Obamabots in the state controlled media fume and fumble their way in the dark and be the petulant two year old children. Let the grownups have a chance to show what this country is all about.
Whatever David Ignatius is smoking....
Submitted by drsamherman on Sun, 05/08/2011 - 11:40pm.
....he should pass on to major depressive disorder patients. It would certainly re-align their sense of reality.
Here's the image that will seal Obama's re-election fate.
Submitted by big.league.slider on Mon, 05/09/2011 - 1:45am.
Here's the image of Obama that struck fear into America's enemies around the world. Once Osama saw this picture, he knew he had no chance.
Hard to tell
Submitted by UpNorth on Mon, 05/09/2011 - 2:10pm.
what's more pathetic in that pic, slider. The mommy pants, the 4 sizes too large helmet, the girly slope of those shoulders or the stick-thin "manly" arms.
The left has been pushing
Submitted by johnsonl on Mon, 05/09/2011 - 6:59am.
this talking point ever since Osama (oops!) OBAMAO announced his reelection bid. Obamao is done and they know it. There is no way in hell that he can get reelected. The MSM has spun off into their little fantasy world, pretending that Obamao, Pelosi, Reid and the liberals haven't been pissing all over the constitution for the last two years, running our economy into the ground in a vain attempt to force us into a socialist society. Not gonna work. Americans are not wired that way. Liberals and entitlement coveters should go to canada or europe. They'd love to have you voting there!
The real reason Bush didn't go
Submitted by gwalt on Mon, 05/09/2011 - 8:59am.
Was because he found out Barack Hussein Obama was really honoring his 19 fallen comrades in the Sep 11 attacks.
"A lot of briefing for a 2 hr. special with Dan Rather. Saw the show & wonder why we bothered". Ronald Reagan
Bush Has Class, Obamope Has Green Card
Submitted by Motormouth KOS on Mon, 05/09/2011 - 11:52am.
Why should Bush dignify Obamope's grandstanding? Ever the classy ex, GWB has refused to gloat in any Obamope failures or to second-guess him.
Ex-Presidents that know how to behave are always the Republicans, because they have done a good job and they know it. The loopy Dems are desperate to re-write their fetid history. To wit...
The failed and misearble Clintons just can't go away, even after we looked the other way when they stole all the WH china.
Peanut-brain Carter thinks that he's still relevant, even though he never actually was.
The Obamination... A crisis leading to a catastrophe..(please donate to MRC)
David Ignoramus - Inspiteful commentor
Submitted by Pilgrim1949 on Mon, 05/09/2011 - 1:04pm.
...once again proving it's possible to subtract from the sum total of human knowledge with each syllable of verbal flatulance uttered forth (or fifth or sixth...).
Those whose lives are lived in the cesspool of eternal spite are utterly incapable of ascribing anything different to others.
"Ye canne change the laws of physics....." but some politicians believe that with the right legislation you can pretend they don't really apply to your own pet projects...
Dream on, liberals.
Submitted by jessieH on Mon, 05/09/2011 - 9:14pm.
Dream on, liberals.
David Ignatius-Mindless Liberal
Submitted by Truth Detective on Tue, 05/10/2011 - 11:13am.
David Ignatius is laughable, at best. He's clueless as usual, but dead wrong on Bush's decision not to go to ground zero with O. Why do liberals insist on doing this? I guess they are all just morons.