Editor,
This past week has been filled with praised headlines for our deceased President, George H.W. Bush. Words like “High Praise,” “Steadfast” and “Man of the Highest Character” have found a common platform among major media outlets, social media pages and even discussions around the water cooler.
Is this man truly deserving of this praise, even during his memorial? Haven’t we not forgotten the atrocities he was either a part of, or a direct architect of, as the head of the CIA, vice president and president? The geo-political turmoil this man and his son almost single-handedly caused, especially in the Middle East, can never be forgiven.
Lest he be judged in the eyes of God. Is to excuse these horrid policies and set aside, or even bury this tainted history in the ground with his cold body, the proper thing to do out of respect for the dead? Or has the benchmark of perceived human decency and political integrity of our head’s of state, both past and present, dead and living, been set at such a low bar as a result of the current occupant of the White House? Either way I’m not buying it.
Tim Hillborn
San Carlos
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(3) comments
I was a little surprised as well Tom with the praise for HW especially from the left. In the day the Democrats labeled him as a racist, white supremacist and a war monger. You know, the same things they call anyone today if you disagree with them. His death did provide a moment to criticize our current president so that was an opportunity they couldn't let pass. You see, the liberal left wing media will ultimately like you if you are a conservative, you just have to die first. Then Tom, way to go to pull it all together by criticizing the current president which like an allergic reaction is unavoidable when suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome. Way to go Tom, even in death, stand firm and don't let him off the hook or allow anything nice to be said about the man. Stay tough and hold your ground as we lay a 94 year old man 6 feet beneath it. No justice, no peace.
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Tim: We should also include in 41's legacy that he didn't believe Atheists should be granted citizenship! Not only unconstitutional, but a slap in the face of non-believers that now make up 25% of the population, and increasing steadily. Yet, that percentage is far short of the more progressive and better educated nations in Northern Europe, where non-believers make up more than a vast majority.
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