Aside from accepting the 2010 Semper Fidelis Award at The Marine Corps University Foundation dinner on Friday, earlier at a breakfast reunion with his former staff:
Mr. Bush also told the breakfast crowd: “I have no desire to see myself on television. I don’t want to be a panel of formers instructing the currents on what to do. … I’m trying to regain a sense of anonymity. I didn’t like it when a certain former president — and it wasn’t 41 or 42 — made my life miserable.”
(The reference seems to have been to former President Jimmy Carter, for whom some Republicans hold out no love, preferring these days to summon up his name to draw comparisons to the current president.)

A former fetus, the “wordsmith from nantucket” was born in Phoenix, Arizona in 1968. Adopted at birth, wordsmith grew up a military brat. He achieved his B.A. in English from the University of California, Los Angeles (graduating in the top 97% of his class), where he also competed rings for the UCLA mens gymnastics team. The events of 9/11 woke him from his political slumber and malaise. Currently a personal trainer and gymnastics coach.
The wordsmith has never been to Nantucket.
What does the body language tell you here. Carter is not liked by anyone including Clinton.
@Tom N:
True, but Chavez, Castro, and any Hamas terrorist share a mutual crush with the first white Obama.
44’s pretty crass too. It would be a tossup between whether Carter or Obama are the biggest ASSES!
He had to have been talking about Carter. As USA Today wrote up, Bush is mostly likely talking about Jimmy Carter, as Reagan “was ill during Bush’s first term and passed away in 2004,” and Gerald Ford “stayed low-key until his death in 2006.”
In 2006, Carter attacked Bush by stating he “quite often deliberately misled the American people about the danger in Iraq to begin with, the causes for going to war in Iraq, and they have also misled the American people about what is happening in Iraq since we invaded.”
Then Carter attacked him again saying the Bush administration had been “the worst in history,” but later tried to walk back those remarks comparing him only to Nixon.
Bush simply shrugged off the attacks saying that such criticisms were “just part of what happens when you’re president.” But not his White House spokesmen Tony Fratto, who called Carter’s attack reckless and evidence he was now “increasingly irrelevant.”
why would they want to stand near carter? he insulted both the clintons and the bushes. obummer wants to look chummy with the rest of the gang.
I didn’t always agree with everything that George W. Bush did as President, but at least he has class and character.
Something that none of the DemocRats in the above picture possess.
Is it just me, or does this disclaimer get said by just about every conservative commenter before feeling comfortable enough to proceed onward with a compliment toward the last president?
@Wordsmith: I don’t know about that. I’ve rarely felt compelled to issue a disclaimer before bestowing a compliment on the former President.
And yes, I am a conservative despite what the RINO hunters say.
Not talking about you, Mike (although I know that you and I have on occasion issued similar disclaimers before praising Bush on something or other).
Don’t you think it happens waaaaay too often? It’s to a point where I think it’s an automatic given, and need not precede a comment, agreeing with Bush.
Word,
Not sure what your point is about my comment…
I was merely pointing out that I’m not (nor have I ever been) a Bush kool-aid drinker. If you think that’s some type of disclaimer before being “comfortable enough” to toss the guy a compliment, so be it.
bronze,
I’m not singling you out; as I admitted in the previous comment, Mike and I have said it too. I haven’t in a while though, because I’ve been conscious of this for a while now.
Haven’t you noticed that just about everyone these days, right before giving Bush a compliment, will precede it with an obligatory, “I didn’t agree with everything the man did….” or some other similar remark?
I guess I’m just feeling weary of seeing it.
It’s predictable.
Wasn’t trying to pick a fight, just didn’t know what your point was. Now I do.
Lol…no worries. Wasn’t getting pee’oed at you or anything like that. It’s only a hazy kind of recent pet peeve, I suppose. Not a big deal.
Just notice how often this occurs, though.
@Wordsmith: I do think it happens way too often. And considering what a piece of crap Obama has turned out to be it’s totally unnecessary to make apologies for Bush.
@Wordsmith, Mike’s America,
Ok, I love GW! I miss him more each and everyday for his class, determination, and unapologetic patriotism!
@skat: I agree.
Me too!