George W. Bush's odd statement on the current crisis. First, rejects county medical examiner verdict on George Floyd death. Opts for clever phrasing instead: Floyd was suffocated and now injustice, fear are suffocating the country... 1/4 ow.ly/bwPD50zXCsk
More remarkable was that Bush almost completely ignored riots, violence, civil unrest now wracking nation. Devoted just 9 words of 507-word statement to it. Again went for clever wording: 'Looting is not liberation' alliteration. 2/4 washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/byron-…
So what about the people who have been hurt in the rioting? Businesses damaged or destroyed? Fears of people whose homes and businesses were threatened? To say Bush gave them short shrift would be generous. 3/4 washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/byron-…
Bush a poor contrast to Barack Obama, who in his statement showed much more concern about the victims of unrest. 'Let's not excuse violence, or rationalize it, or participate in it,' Obama wrote. 4/4 End. washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/byron-…
