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George Bush's Unrequited Love
Mona Charen 7/25/2008
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What will George W. Bush be remembered for? If, as Clare Boothe Luce argued, every president gets just one sentence in the history books, then President Bush's will certainly concern the war on terror and Iraq. His historical reputation will wax or wane based entirely on how well Iraq does in the coming decades. That's the ball game for Bush, historically speaking. And yet, as recent news about student test scores reminds us, a poignant aspect of this president's two terms is his unrequited love for blacks and other minorities.

Many black readers will laugh at this assertion. No president in recent memory has been held in lower esteem by black voters than George W. Bush. Reagan and H.W. Bush were perceived (despite their best efforts) as uncaring at best. Bill Clinton was adored. But from the beginning, George W. Bush was painted as the devil by many black leaders. It's remarkable that this was so, considering Mr. Bush's steadfast and unwavering interest in the poor and minorities, but there it is. When no other opportunity for tarring President Bush presented itself, his detractors seized upon Hurricane Katrina as the catch basin for all the free-floating bile against the president.

Remember the
way George W. Bush first campaigned? He was the "compassionate conservative." He visited so many black churches he could have applied for membership in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. He telegraphed early and often that if elected he'd choose Colin Powell for Secretary of State (and that was only the beginning of his promotion of blacks and Hispanics to high office — he might as well have believed in affirmative action). He boasted (en Espanol) of his excellent record winning the votes of Hispanics in Texas. He lamented the "soft bigotry of low expectations."

And he meant it. On his second day in office, Bush invited the all-Democrat Congressional Black Caucus to a meeting at the White House. His two signature domestic policies were the No Child Left Behind education act — a reform whose entire focus was on narrowing the achievement gap between blacks and Hispanics and other children — and the faith-based initiative that was aimed at helping all of those who for one reason or another fall into economic or psychic woe.

As his former speechwriter Michael Gerson recalled, "He [wa]s deeply committed to the idea of helping the poor through community and faith-based institutions."

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Posted By: Good Life  on Friday, July 25, 2008

Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Now here's someone that knows how to write satire.

Posted By: Dauric  on Friday, July 25, 2008

Sure, Bush made money available for AIDS prevention programs, but attached evangelical moralizing strings to that money that ultimately made the programs worthless.

No Child Left Behind brought us a rash students taught to answer a multiple-choice test, rather than students who could think and analyze for themselves. Naturally student achievement is going up, multiple choice tests are simple to 'game'. Students who are graduating under NCLB are falling behind other nations in entering college-level programs for high-paying fields like Science or Engineering.

I don't think the diatribes that Bush "Hates" blacks are necessarily true, he's made attempts to do -something-. Unfortunately those attempts are just as terribly misguided as the rest of his administration.

Posted By: geoff  on Saturday, July 26, 2008

"Worst President ever."

"No Child Left Behind": teaching for the tests; America continues to fall behind the rest of the world in international rankings.

"Bush practically bankrupted the treasury by spending on AIDS treatment in Africa"?!? Try bankrupt on the war in Iraq, for starters. Try checking out how effectively that money was spent (did it all go to Halliburton, perhaps?): like faith-based "Just say NO" abstinence-only policies are really going to work.

A fig-leaf, babe: you're deluding yourself.

Posted By: Amy  on Monday, July 28, 2008

(Heh, heh, heh)

.. Ah, doin' a good job there, Brownie.  Uh, I mean, Money.  

Oh gosh, I mean, MONA.  (heh, heh, heh)



You have just officially become a Bush tool.

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