WTF? Donna Brazile: Cheney attacks Obama while silent Bush is "trying to become an elder statesman"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

VIDEO @ the URL below:

Donna Brazile: George Bush Trying to be an 'Elder Statesman'
By Heather Thursday Feb 18, 2010 6:00am

http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/donna-brazile-george-bush-trying-be-elder

What in the hell is Donna Brazile smoking? When asked about George W. Bush being unwilling, like his former Veep Cheney, to attack President Obama, Brazile says he's trying to be an "elder statesman" and put partisanship aside. Well Donna, that's just mighty kind of him not to say too much about the guy left to clean up his mess after he took a wrecking ball to the joint, but "statesman" is about the last word I ever think of when I hear George W. Bush's name.

BLITZER: Let's get to our "strategy session." Joining us now our two CNN political contributors, Donna Brazile the Democratic strategist and Mary Matalin, the Republican strategist. Guys, thanks very much for coming in.

Mary, I'll start with you, talk about your former boss, the former president of the United States, George W. Bush. He was in Naples, Florida, giving a speech, together with his brother, the former governor, Jeb Bush. One of the reporters who covered it wrote this, "George W. Bush said more competitive congressional districts are needed so that politicians have to work harder on their campaigns. That, he said, could help diminish the partisanship as political leaders would be forced to focus more on the issues. He said those who call names shouldn't be elected." All right. So when I read that report, it sounded to me, tell me if I'm going too far, it sounds like he's being critical of the tea partiers.

MARY MATALIN: I didn't read it that way at all. There's been a long discussion about redistricting creating untouchable seats, where there's no competition of ideas and it produces Congress people who can walk their party off the edge, like Nancy Pelosi. No one can touch her seat. I took it as part of that discussion. When I think of name-calling, and I'm sure what George W. Bush thinks of when he thinks of name-calling is being called a Nazi or liar or a warmonger, or names that were thrown at him for policies that have been continued by the Obama administration. I know Donna and I agree on this, name-calling is a far different kind of politics than partisanship. There's nothing wrong with being partisan. There's something wrong with vile, personal attacks.

BLITZER: Which is a fair point. Mary, he also refused to be critical of the Obama administration. It's now more than a year since the president took office. Unlike the former vice president, Dick Cheney, President George W. Bush is still holding back. I guess he thinks it's inappropriate at this point for a former president to be critical of the current president. I guess you think that's the right thing to do, right? Let me ask that of Donna.

MATALIN: Sorry.

DONNA BRAZILE: Well, let me just say this. The think the former president is clearly trying to walk a fine line and demonstrate that he is ready to move beyond the politics of personal destruction, and to become an elder statesman. We need more elder statesmen, more former political leaders willing to use their time and talent to help lead the way to a better future for all of us. I also think that beyond trying to eliminate all of this hyper- partisanship, we need to overhaul our campaign finance system. I didn't get a chance to watch the smackdown between Joe Biden and Dick Cheney. I heard it was an interesting match, but I was more interested in watching Drew Brees.

[HopeHoops]

1. All Bush is trying to do is stay as inebriated as possible until his liver fails.

[nc4bo]

2. Brazille isn't one of us. No one should be surprised about what comes out of her mouth.

Neither is that slimeball weasel James Carville. They are two peas in a pod.

Too bad MSM loves putting them out there like they do represent the D's.

[xultar]

3. Your are totally overracting to what she said. Seriously LIGHTEN UP FRANCIS

[Romulox]

9. Maybe he's heard some of the *other* stuff she's said, 'cause he's right. nt

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

4. "Guys, thanks very much for coming in."

lol

[TwilightGardener]

5. To be fair, I somewhat agree with her that Bush is "trying" to be statesmanlike.

He'll never succeed, because you can't be an elder statesman when you have no wisdom. But he is working on that image nonetheless. It's a little bit of that old Bush Family blue-blood thing, whatever's left.

[xultar]

8. Exactly, but the knee jerkers kick an unlocked door to the ground.

[WI_DEM]

6. Bush will never be an elder statesman--an elder moron maybe but statesman--no.

[xultar]

7. Seriously people, no need to overreact to what she said. Basically she said

Bush is trying to keep his mouth shut. Which is true.

[el_bryanto]

10. I think that Ms. Brazile is talking about appearnce verses reality

W wants to appear the statesman - so that is why he is acting this way.

Of course most of you know that- but why pass up the opportunity to slag off Donna Brazile?

Bryant

[xultar]

15. +1 gillion brazillion million trillion billions

[Proud Liberal Dem]

11. George W. Bush=Elder Statesman????

:rofl:
:wtf:

I appreciate the fact that Bush may not be popping up on news shows every week to launch a vicious and cynical partisan attack on President Obama and his handling of national security but, c'mon, that doesn't exactly make him some sort of "saint" and/or "elder statesman"- nor does his Haiti relief *efforts*. I had the misfortune of seeing him on the TV screen touting Haiti Relief with Bill Clinton and nearly hurled. :puke: If there is any shred of justice left in this universe, George W. Bush should NEVER EVER be considered a credible "Elder Statesman" by anybody- let alone somebody who is supposed to be a Democratic strategist. :banghead:

I should also say that we don't know for certain that Bush isn't involved in Cheney's partisan smears of Obama. Cheney could just be doing Bushco's dirty work to slime and discredit the Obama administration (after all Jeb's still waiting in the wings). Has Bush spoken out against Cheney's slurs?

[gratuitous]

12. "Willing to use their time and talent to help lead the way"

Okay, that's just downright delusional, to think of George W. Bush fitting that description in any way, shape or form. I know the investment prospectuses always remind us that past performance is no guarantee of future returns, I can state with very high confidence that George W. Bush has never in his life worked for a better future for anyone but his own miserable failure of a career, let alone "for all of us."

[bulloney]

13. Bush is probably trying to tell Cheney to lay low. The more Cheney talks, the more he incriminates

the Bush administration.

[pipi_k]

14. A hundred and fifty years ago, he might have been able to pull it off...

But now there's computers and the Internet and YouTube and all sorts of other things that show concrete evidence of what a fucking doofus he was, and still is.

Sixty-something year old smirking fratboys don't get to be "elder statesmen".

Except maybe in their own imaginations...