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Playinghardball

(11,665 posts)
Fri Sep 28, 2012, 01:50 PM Sep 2012

Life Keeps Making Lemonade

On the Hardball set last night, Matthews told me that George W. Bush, on November 1, i.e. five days before the election, is giving a speech in...the Cayman Islands! It's true.

What is he thinking? I guess he's thinking first and foremost that he's going to pocket $2 million or whatever it is they're paying him (it's an investment summit of some kind). But hasn't he sort of noticed that overseas tax shelters in general and the Cayman Islands specifically have become campaign issues, and liabilities for the standard-bearer of his party?

It's not even just about Romney; Bush may or may not give a crap about him. But it's about Bush. This speech is, if the Democrats set it up properly, going to generate maybe two days of negative stories about the GOP and plutocracy that are going to include revisitations of the dismal Bush record. If he were going to make himself an issue in the campaign in such a public way, you'd think he might have decided to go visit veterans in a hospital or something.


The more general point here of course is Bush's apparitional posture during this campaign--the way he went yak hunting or whatever it was during the convention, the way he just hasn't said a single word that I can see about anything. The Onion got the story. So now he is going to make an issue of himself the week before the voting by materializing in the Western Hemisphere's most famous tax-dodge heaven, the kind of place where dozens of major corporations are "headquartered" in modest two-story buildings. Oh, but I forget--Americans love free enterprise! What am I, some kind of commie? (More below fold.)

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/09/28/life-keeps-making-lemonade.html
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Life Keeps Making Lemonade (Original Post) Playinghardball Sep 2012 OP
I have never once heard Flashmann Sep 2012 #1
Maybe W secretly supports Obama and don't want to hurt Jeb's chances. bluestate10 Sep 2012 #2
I have no doubt that Dubya likes Obama much, much better than Romney, if he likes him at all. monmouth Sep 2012 #3

Flashmann

(2,140 posts)
1. I have never once heard
Fri Sep 28, 2012, 01:54 PM
Sep 2012

Boy George accused,by anyone with a shred credibility,of being of being overly intelligent.....The fact is,the very opposite it true..

bluestate10

(10,942 posts)
2. Maybe W secretly supports Obama and don't want to hurt Jeb's chances.
Fri Sep 28, 2012, 01:59 PM
Sep 2012

Otherwise, he is a fucking moron. Not that I am not happy about what W is doing, I am ecstatic.

monmouth

(21,078 posts)
3. I have no doubt that Dubya likes Obama much, much better than Romney, if he likes him at all.
Fri Sep 28, 2012, 02:14 PM
Sep 2012

Mitt just does not seem like the type guy Bush would even want to be around. Secondly, President Obama has shown Dubya respect and has called him on the phone more than once. Once was to give him a heads up about Bin Laden which I thought was a very respectful thing to do. Dubya would have a beer with POTUS...Romney, not even a lemonade...

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