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Polybius

(18,272 posts)
Sat Sep 7, 2024, 08:01 PM Sep 2024

Former President George W. Bush will not make formal election endorsement, office says

This discussion thread was locked as off-topic by Yonnie3 (a host of the Latest Breaking News forum).

Source: ABC News

Former President George W. Bush doesn't plan to make an endorsement or voice how he or his wife Laura will vote in November, his office told ABC News Saturday.

The announcement came a day after Bush's vice president, Dick Cheney, announced he would cross party lines and vote for Vice President Kamala Harris.

Cheney said former President Donald Trump "can never be trusted with power again."

"In our nation’s 248-year history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump. He tried to steal the last election using lies and violence to keep himself in power after the voters had rejected him," he said in a statement.

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/former-president-george-bush-make-formal-election-endorsement/story?id=113488609

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Former President George W. Bush will not make formal election endorsement, office says (Original Post) Polybius Sep 2024 OP
chicken! n/t chillfactor Sep 2024 #1
He is still Timewas Sep 2024 #2
Fuck him. n/t birdographer Sep 2024 #3
Yep, what a gutless POS he is democratsruletheday Sep 2024 #9
Coward. apnu Sep 2024 #4
Of course the chickshit fucker won't. Thank goodness for him that donald was elected. Otherwise Ferrets are Cool Sep 2024 #5
Maybe... 2naSalit Sep 2024 #6
Post removed Post removed Sep 2024 #7
Well, it IS impolite to talk with your mouth full JoseBalow Sep 2024 #8
MLK & JFK quotes bmichaelh Sep 2024 #10
Fuck him. He's a war criminal. BigDemVoter Sep 2024 #11
He. was sitting next to Michelle Obama during one of Trump's speeches. - Possibly inauguration. 3Hotdogs Sep 2024 #12
Locking as a duplicate Yonnie3 Sep 2024 #13

chillfactor

(7,694 posts)
1. chicken! n/t
Sat Sep 7, 2024, 08:07 PM
Sep 2024

Timewas

(2,315 posts)
2. He is still
Sat Sep 7, 2024, 08:24 PM
Sep 2024

AN Asshole

birdographer

(2,528 posts)
3. Fuck him. n/t
Sat Sep 7, 2024, 08:37 PM
Sep 2024

democratsruletheday

(1,229 posts)
9. Yep, what a gutless POS he is
Sat Sep 7, 2024, 10:28 PM
Sep 2024

worst POTUS next to Trump and still NO balls. Mission accomplished Bushy! In all seriousness, doesn't matter cuz no one cares about him anyway. Same with Darth Cheney...they're persona non grata IMO.

apnu

(8,790 posts)
4. Coward.
Sat Sep 7, 2024, 08:39 PM
Sep 2024

Ferrets are Cool

(21,984 posts)
5. Of course the chickshit fucker won't. Thank goodness for him that donald was elected. Otherwise
Sat Sep 7, 2024, 08:51 PM
Sep 2024

he would still be the worst President that America ever elected.

2naSalit

(93,293 posts)
6. Maybe...
Sat Sep 7, 2024, 09:17 PM
Sep 2024

He is not considered competent and so that's why we never see him.

Response to Polybius (Original post)

JoseBalow

(5,582 posts)
8. Well, it IS impolite to talk with your mouth full
Sat Sep 7, 2024, 10:17 PM
Sep 2024

bmichaelh

(639 posts)
10. MLK & JFK quotes
Sat Sep 7, 2024, 10:34 PM
Sep 2024

Dr Martin Luther King Jr quote: The hottest place in hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.

President Kennedy said something similar.

Per https://www.jfklibrary.org/learn/about-jfk/life-of-john-f-kennedy/john-f-kennedy-quotations:

"Dante once said that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in periods of moral crisis maintain their neutrality." --"Remarks in Bonn at the Signing of a Charter Establishing the German Peace Corps (258)," June 24, 1963, Public Papers of the Presidents: John F. Kennedy, 1963. (Note: Dante never made this statement. The closest to what President Kennedy meant is in the Inferno where the souls in the ante-room of hell, who "lived without disgrace and without praise," and the coward angels, who did not rebel but did not resist the cohorts of Lucifer, are condemned to being whirled through the air by great winds while being stung by wasps and horseflies.)



BigDemVoter

(4,553 posts)
11. Fuck him. He's a war criminal.
Sat Sep 7, 2024, 10:40 PM
Sep 2024

3Hotdogs

(13,525 posts)
12. He. was sitting next to Michelle Obama during one of Trump's speeches. - Possibly inauguration.
Sun Sep 8, 2024, 06:23 AM
Sep 2024

When Trump finished babbling, he turned to Michelle, "That was some shit."


--- and he still won't endorse Kamala. Another Anal Fistula on the body politic.

Yonnie3

(18,182 posts)
13. Locking as a duplicate
Sun Sep 8, 2024, 07:45 AM
Sep 2024

Please continue discussion at the earlier post. https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143303081

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