George W. Bush: Garner decision 'hard to understand'

[DonViejo]

By Eric Bradner, CNN
updated 12:54 PM EST, Fri December 5, 2014

Washington (CNN) -- Former President George W. Bush says a New York grand jury's decision not to indict the police officer who choked and killed Eric Garner was "hard to understand."

In an interview with CNN's Candy Crowley, Bush said his reaction to watching video of the incident that led to Garner's death was "how sad."

"You know, the verdict was hard to understand," he said. "But I hadn't seen all the details -- but it's sad that race continues to play such an emotional, divisive part of life."

Bush said the United States has improved since the 1970s, when he was young, and said he remembers "race riots with cities being burned." Bush discussed the recent racial unrest that followed a Missouri grand jury's failure to indict Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson, who is white, in the shooting death of Michael Brown, who was black, over dinner with his former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

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[grasswire]

1. Bush rehabilitation initiative

It gathers momentum.

[msanthrope]

5. Jebbie's running. nt

[PSPS]

2. Gee, thanks, CNN. Nothing is more interesting than a war criminal's take on current events.

[Downwinder]

3. Not hard to understand, Bush is still walking free.

[BootinUp]

4. I find it hard to peg what this guy ever understood. nt

[etherealtruth]

12. That makes two of us n/t

[99Forever]

6. I should give a fuck what a War Criminal's opinion is because?

[LadyHawkAZ]

7. George W. Bush: My Pet Goat 'hard to understand'

Broken clock statement from a guy that's confused by anything more complicated than a beer can tab.

[nomorenomore08]

8. I've often thought that W, if not for his political ambitions, would have been a harmless simpleton.

Cheney was the real sociopath in that administration IMO.

[Reter]

9. Even Bush gets it

I never thought of him as the hard-core racist that many in his party are. He was controlled.

[Jackpine Radical]

10. Among his many failings, racism is not one. Despise him as I do, I never thought that.

[Reter]

11. I heard stories that even in college, he had well-off black friends

The Bush's seem more classist than racist. If you're rich and black, they will welcome you more than if you are poor and white.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

13. Which makes him an even scummier lowlife. He had no problem pandering to bigots. No

problem surrounding himself with the John Ashcrofts of the world. We all remember how he came close to ''winning'' FL. It was done over the backs and civil rights of many black and brown people.

[Generic Other]

15. Never forget!

You got that right.

[Terra Alta]

16. I despise Dumbya

But I never bought the "he hates black people" line that Kanye West and others claimed.

I think he hated poor people, though, regardless of color. Rich, black Repukes like Condi Rice and Colin Powell were among his closest friends.

[Initech]

14. Why have we not as a country ever said "Wow, and this man was president?"

[MrMickeysMom]

17. No more than a grunt I'd expect from an ignorant pig...

This dope doesn't understand much, so what's the big interview, Candy?… no surprise there. Least of all, does he understand civil rights or anything that deals with what made this country thrive as injustices continued towards those building our country.

The only thing that's improved since the 70's is Bush's nasal septum.

[bullwinkle428]

18. In all fairness, Shrub finds pop-top cans "hard to understand" as well.