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May 30th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
The visit, only his second since leaving office 40 months ago with a
record-low 22 per cent approval rating, threatens to remind voters of even
unhappier times, tarnishing Mitt
Romney’s triumph of finally reaching the 1,144 delegates required to
clinch the Republican nomination to face Barack
Obama in November.
Should George W Bush be embarrassed of his legacy?
While endorsements from other big beasts such as John McCain have come amid
much fanfare, Mr Bush’s own long-awaited nod earlier this month took the
form of just four words – “I’m for Mitt Romney” – shouted to
a reporter through a closing lift door.
His silence contrasts sharply with his predecessor, Bill Clinton, who is
already campaigning energetically for Mr Obama, and even with his relatively
quiet father, George H.W. Bush, who posed for photographs with Mr Romney
before promising to have a word with his eldest son.
The younger Bush insists that he is staying above the fray out of respect for
his successor. Yet as Mr Obama pleads that he inherited a “mess”
and is still trying to clear it up, former Bush advisers concede that focus
on their man also poses headaches for Mr Romney, who should instead look to
the future.
“I think people would agree with Obama that he was left with a mess,”
John Bolton, Mr Bush’s UN ambassador, told The Daily Telegraph. “They’re
not arguing about that, and that’s why it doesn’t pay for Romney to argue
whether it was a big mess or a little mess.”
A recent CNN poll found 56 per cent of voters continued to blame Mr Bush and
the Republicans for the country’s ongoing economic woe, while only 29 per
cent blamed Mr Obama and the Democrats. Only Richard Nixon ranked lower than
Mr Bush in a Gallup poll on the last eight presidents earlier this year.
Things looks bleak. “There are a couple of kinds of events out there that
would I think elevate his standing, but those are events that none of us
would ever want to see,” said Tony Fratto, a White House aide to Mr
Bush. “If there were another terrorist act, and I don’t even want to
speculate on that, there are those out there who would make the case that
after 9/11, he kept the country safe”.
Little wonder, then, that Mr Bush and his wife, Laura, instead prefer to
divide their time between their 1,600 acre ranch in Crawford and £1.3
million mansion on a Dallas street now locked behind black iron security
gates and a Secret Service outpost.
Between publishing his memoir, quietly earning £10 million on the after-dinner
circuit and overseeing the building of his £192 million presidential centre
and library 18 miles away, Mr Bush enjoys relaxing on the putting green
installed on the site of the next-door house, which he promptly bought and
had demolished.
He frequently catches up with old friends living nearby, such as Harold
Simmons, a titanium tycoon who recently opened a 1,300 acre radioactive
waste dump in west Texas, and Tom Hicks, the sports franchise billionaire
whose ownership almost destroyed Liverpool FC.
While Mrs Bush hosts barbecues and receives standing ovations at the local
shopping mall, Mr Bush emails former aides from a new iPad, friends said.
The couple enjoy crabmeat soufflés at the nearby Rise No.1 restaurant, where
Mr Bush received the call from Mr Obama to say that Osama bin Laden was
dead.
By all accounts, he does not miss the cut-and-thrust of a city he stayed away
from for a full third of his presidency. “I actually found my freedom
by leaving Washington,” he said during a speech earlier this month.
Such is his detachment that a wall of memorable photographs inside the house
is said to contain no pictures of Mr Bush with world leaders, but does
include one with Siegfried and Roy, the Las Vegas entertainers renowned for
their white tigers.
Some confidantes hope Mr Bush will edge back into the spotlight with a book,
to be published in July, outlining a plan to boost economic growth. Others
point beyond this election campaign to the opening of his presidential
centre, in July next year, as his moment to return.
“I wish he could be more outspoken on the issues he cares about,”
said Bob Fu, a friend and leading Chinese-American dissident, who helped
launch Mr Bush’s Freedom Collection, a little-noticed website aiming to
promote freedom and democracy worldwide. “He has the microphone, and
certainly has the compassion,” said Mr Fu. “He said he will. He
told me he will do more in the near future”.
But for now “he recognises that it’s somebody else’s turn,” said
Andrew Card, his former White House chief of staff. “He’s going to do
everything he can to make it about the future of the country, not about the
past.” Which may mean a lot more time spent in Texas yet.
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