Why didn’t George W. Bush say anything when there was a fight to be had over this? Ditto for Obama. Solidarity is better than condolences.
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We need more outspoken leaders.
jul 1, 2025, 1:58 am • 2 0 • view
What about Bono? Why didn't he say anything publicly? There was a time when we couldn't get that guy to shut up.
jul 1, 2025, 12:26 pm • 1 0 • view
Too little support, too late to matter...
jul 1, 2025, 1:52 am • 4 0 • view
Perplexing.
jul 1, 2025, 2:00 am • 0 0 • view
Obama said plenty when he warned us for months not to let this happen. After 47 took office, there was nothing he could do to stop this. The responsibility shifted to Republicans. Bush is another story. He could have made a difference before and after the election. Don't lump Obama in with him.
jul 1, 2025, 1:58 pm • 0 0 • view
I don’t blame Obama for not saying anything because I don’t think it would have helped the fight (and could have made it worse). Bush, however, continues to show that the compassionate Conservatism he hawked was a shtick, rather than something he has the courage of conviction to stand up for.
jul 1, 2025, 5:00 am • 4 0 • view
W gave us Alito. Total puke. Obama did his time, made the case for Hillary and the voters let him down.
jul 1, 2025, 10:53 am • 1 0 • view
Damn right. One was silent and the other damning with faint praise.
jul 1, 2025, 3:59 am • 4 0 • view
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/u...
jul 1, 2025, 1:56 am • 1 0 • view
As if it would have made ANY difference. It was up to US to care. They’d have been mocked & dismissed. Let’s be honest.
jul 1, 2025, 2:28 am • 4 0 • view
It could be that most people nationwide, including Bush and Obama, are suffering from depression, due to the MAGA culture and the Tramp takeover, and are basically unable to muster the right words to explain how they’re really feeling.
jul 1, 2025, 2:24 am • 0 0 • view
We weren’t who we thought we were. No longer the “home of the brave.” The worst people in the world walked in and took or broke everything with nary a peep.
jul 1, 2025, 8:26 am • 1 0 • view
Our former Presidents have proved useless in our current crises.
jul 1, 2025, 1:58 am • 13 0 • view
Soooo very ...
jul 1, 2025, 4:49 am • 1 0 • view
Is simply "absorbing" an agency like USAid into the State Department at the direction of the Secretary of State even legal, highly doubtful.
jul 1, 2025, 4:19 am • 0 0 • view
They care about decorum not decency.
jul 1, 2025, 1:53 am • 1 0 • view
No balls
jul 1, 2025, 2:31 am • 0 0 • view
All dems do is criticize allies who arrive a day later than they do.
jul 1, 2025, 2:47 am • 0 0 • view
Frankly Bush and Obama are in the past. I’ve not been impressed and I have definitely not been impressed with Kamala(who I donated to and campaigned for). I think she has shown us why she was not the right person to lead, or she would be in front of the party leading! Time for a new and young!
jul 1, 2025, 2:28 am • 0 0 • view
Kamala was at the right place at the right time. She would have not won in an open primary and her supporters knew this, which is why they were adamant about her being crowned Biden’s successor. I voted for her, but it takes a different kind of fighter to take this ugly monster that Trump birthed.
jul 1, 2025, 2:35 am • 0 0 • view
Who has them?
jul 1, 2025, 3:38 am • 0 0 • view
Too late. These former presidents are derelict in their duty to speak out. They are now private citizens with the same First Amendment rights as the rest of us. Use your voice!
jul 1, 2025, 12:25 pm • 0 0 • view
The same reason many other individuals stay silent. Because Trump will throw them in jail, put their families in harm's way, or both. Look at what happened to Melissa and Mark Hortman. That was Trump's handiwork. #Resist
jul 1, 2025, 12:52 pm • 0 0 • view
because aWol was never terribly bright and Hussein was always a moderate republican.
jul 1, 2025, 1:54 am • 1 0 • view
W was so overcome by shame when he left office that it pretty much silenced him for good. Obama fears for the safety of his family.
jul 1, 2025, 11:11 am • 0 0 • view
Why didn't two former US Presidents and a pop singer change the fascist majority the people of the USA have elected? Is that seriously the question? No wonder the USA go down the drain with such a poor understanding how their political system works.
jul 1, 2025, 12:05 pm • 1 0 • view
Vanity. Legacy. Cash. #Ozymandias
jul 1, 2025, 2:08 am • 0 0 • view
BECAUSE they are protecting their own earnings if you are looking for moral surety it is not found in most former office holders
jul 1, 2025, 1:18 pm • 0 0 • view
Because that would be impolite and the Bush family are never impolite
jul 1, 2025, 1:53 am • 1 0 • view
Agree. I don't understand. As if they're extending presidential courtesy of silence to the incumbent. Incumbent didn't and never will return that courtesy. They owe it to the public to speak out.
jul 1, 2025, 7:37 pm • 0 0 • view
like it would have made a difference
jul 1, 2025, 1:56 am • 1 0 • view
It took me literally SECONDS to find President Obama REPEATEDLY publicly denouncing Trump's USAID cuts Did you do ANY research before writing this? Is is just ignorance? Or is it apathy?
jul 1, 2025, 6:04 am • 2 0 • view
"Obama Slams Trump’s Plan to Scrap USAID", February 7, 2025: thedailywhistle.co.ke/obama-slams-...
jul 1, 2025, 6:02 am • 3 0 • view
"Obama and Harris publicly rebuke Trump’s second-term actions", April 4, 2025: www.cnn.com/2025/04/04/p...
jul 1, 2025, 6:01 am • 3 0 • view
jul 1, 2025, 5:58 am • 2 0 • view
Because all these former presidents are too invested in the system to admit it has been blown to pieces. And also too insulated from any and all consequences as well. American fascism is not now and never will be their lived reality.
jul 1, 2025, 2:52 am • 3 0 • view
Just completely useless at all levels!
jul 1, 2025, 1:51 am • 1 0 • view
So depressing. I expected some 007 righteousness from Obama. A lady can dream.
jul 2, 2025, 7:30 am • 0 0 • view
Cowardice.
jul 1, 2025, 2:21 am • 1 0 • view
Cowardly. I guess both fearful of their Secret Service details being pulled. Why can so many with significant platforms not state the obvious - that Trump and this administration and the MAGA movement are fundamental threats to America and the world?
jul 1, 2025, 1:55 am • 4 0 • view
Part of the final decline of the American empire, is that we do not have any real statesmen. Our so called captains have abandoned ship and have left the citizens afloat, in a turbulent sea.
jul 1, 2025, 2:04 am • 2 1 • view
You are right. It’s dispiriting and abandonment of a cause these politicians claimed to believe in
jul 1, 2025, 2:22 am • 1 0 • view
and all that food and medicine is left to rot. #Democrat #DemsUnited #StrongerTogether #SaveDemocracy #Resist #liberal #NoKings #TACO #Fascism #ice #fafo
jul 1, 2025, 1:55 am • 0 0 • view
Cus they want to collect money like every other rich dude that doesn’t care about poor pple.
jul 1, 2025, 11:11 am • 0 0 • view
Maybe Bush & Obama were waiting for Elected Politicians in Washington to do the right thing. The Former Presidents simply become Lightening Rods for MAGA GOP zealots, if they take a Stand on Issues. That's what 🇺🇸 has become now.
jul 1, 2025, 3:41 am • 1 0 • view