So, did things get a little too hot for Bush? Did he suddenly remember some brush that needed cutting? Did he have that bad dream about the cops knocking on the door the way they did to Kissinger that time?
Next week’s appearance by former U.S. president George W. Bush at an event hosted by a local evangelical Christian university has been cancelled.
The decision came Wednesday, the same day three former students launched a petition urging the university to cancel the speech. On Tuesday, a class valedictorian and professor publicly spoke out against the appearance following the resignation of another staff member.
Bush was scheduled to speak Sept. 20 to about 150 people at an invitation-only breakfast hosted by Tyndale University College and Seminary, home to about 1,400 students at two campuses in Toronto’s north end.
Toronto, you see. To-ron-to. It’s in Ca-na-da. That’s a-no-ther coun-try. It’s outside the US. Bush has compelling reasons not to go to places that are outside the US.
Here’s part of the letter that went with the petition concerning Bush’s appearance at Tyndale:
The objection to Bush is that he isn’t Christian enough.
I know. How can they be so disloyal?!
Is it because if he gets out of America, he could be prosecuted for war crimes?
Yes. Although he did make an appearance in Toronto a few years back, right after his Presidency mercifully ended. He was debating President Clinton. Can’t remember what the topic was(not that it matters).
However, I do recall there were protests and calls for a citizens arrest at the time.
Perhaps Bush had to be reminded of that event, and that it took place in the same city/country, before he bailed this time around.
That scenario doesn’t seem far-fetched to me.
After all, Bush did often struggle making connections between events and places as President, especially in his foreign policy decisions.
“The objection to Bush is that he isn’t Christian enough.”
Well that’s true enough in my opinion, although the objection was also to him as an evil person – again true! I never believed Bush was a christian any more than I believed he was a recovered alcoholic (remember his escapades at the Olympic games in China?). Going back as far as his early political career in texas, he was never more than a cynical manipulator of the right-wing christian vote. (That’s also when he became a “bubba”. Before that he had the same accent as the rest of his family).
Remember that Bush would entertain the fundies at the white house regularly and then he, rove and others of the neocon clique would mock them after they had gone? Nah! he ain’t no christian…he’s just a better actor than reagan was……
George W has a little problem with entering Canada… His 1976 DUI charge.
Maybe…maybe not..but to enter Canada he had/has to jump through a lot of hoops.
It’s not just that Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld had people tortured. It’s also that they are so damn righteous about it, and brag that they’d do it again. I would love to see indictments come down from the Hague.