"Bush feels Obama ignoring ex-president's role in Osama Bin Laden strike for 'victory lap': source"

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Bush feels Obama ignoring ex-president's role in Osama Bin Laden strike for 'victory lap': source
BY THOMAS M. DEFRANK
DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU CHIEF

Originally Published:Wednesday, May 4th 2011, 8:31 PM

WASHINGTON - George W. Bush won't be at Ground Zero with President Obama Thursday in part because he feels his team is getting short shrift in the decade-long manhunt for Osama Bin Laden.

"(Bush) viewed this as an Obama victory lap," a highly-placed source told the Daily News Wednesday.

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"He doesn't feel personally snubbed and appreciates the invitation, but Obama's claiming all the credit and a lot of other people deserve some of it," the source added.

"Obama gave no credit whatsoever to the intelligence infrastructure the Bush administration set up that is being hailed from the left and right as setting in motion the operation that got Bin Laden. It rubbed Bush the wrong way."

The rest: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2011/05/04/2011-05-04_expresident_bush_feels_obama_undermining_his_staffs_role_in_osama_bin_laden_stri.html

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The less we see him, the better.

I don't care how he spins what's happening...

Ick on baby bush.

More propaganda.

Bush basically ignored Osama for 8 years leaving the job for the next person in the White House - Barack Obama. I mean come on, if Bush had done his job then Obama wouldn't have been the one to have this historic moment.

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Bsuh is off crying in a corner, love it!

I say bullshit.

I'm thinking we should ignore all unnamed sources... this is getting ridiculous.

a named source saying this:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2011/05/05/state/n094427D82.DTL

I think I'll take Laura's word over an unnamed source.

This is a completely different angle! Since Laura Bush is cited by name, there's not a chance this is wrong. Her response was very gracious.

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Former President George W. Bush decided not to join President Barack Obama at a Thursday ceremony at ground zero because he feels that acting presidents alone should preside over such official ceremonies, the former first lady said.

Laura Bush told The Associated Press on Thursday that she and her husband were out to dinner Sunday night when they received word that Obama wanted to speak with him. The former president went home to take the call informing him that U.S. military forces had killed Osama bin Laden in a raid of his compound in Pakistan, Laura Bush said.

The former first lady told the AP that her husband declined an invitation to attend Thursday's event in New York because "that's for President Obama to do at this point."



Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2011/05/05/state/n094427D82.DTL#ixzz1LVgLIyTe

maybe he shouldn't have gotten saddam.

Could that headline be any worse?

It reads like Dubya wrote it.

for allowing Osama bin Laden to attack America.

None of this would have been necessary if georgie had gotten the job done then - when we had him in our sights and our troops were begging for the go-ahead to go nail him. But no - couldn't have that, not when he had his little Iraq war detour-to-Hell to get to instead.

The talking point about Obama's "taking all the credit" was made up--though it sounds petulant enough to be a genuine Dubya quote.

We know President Obama. If Dubya had felt like showing up, he would have been feted generously. The spoiled brat just couldn't accept second place, I'm guessing.

Former President George W. Bush decided not to join President Barack Obama at a Thursday ceremony at ground zero because he feels that acting presidents alone should preside over such official ceremonies, the former first lady said.

Laura Bush told The Associated Press on Thursday that she and her husband were out to dinner Sunday night when they received word that Obama wanted to speak with him. The former president went home to take the call informing him that U.S. military forces had killed Osama bin Laden in a raid of his compound in Pakistan, Laura Bush said.

The former first lady told the AP that her husband declined an invitation to attend Thursday's event in New York because "that's for President Obama to do at this point."



Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2011/0...

Ground Zero would have been the appropriate place to acknowledge the contribution of Bush and his administration.

Bush just can't deal with the fact that Obama has succeeded in so many areas in which Bush failed miserably. Get with reality, Bush Jr.

There is probably a lot of information about the intelligence that we don't know. And most likely it is quite true that the groundwork for obtaining this intelligence was done during the Bush administration.

But if Obama were to acknowledge too clearly just who did what, then the important aspects, the legitimate aspects of our intelligence organization would be compromised.

Bush never understood what should and should not be kept secret. He just didn't get it. That is a lot of what has caused the lack of confidence of the country in our government.

Bush kept things secret that should not have been secret -- like which energy companies Cheney conferred with -- and mad public things that should not have been made public -- like Valerie Plame's information.

If Obama came out and said, "And thanks to Bush for detail, detail, detail," then the terrorists who are still out there would know how our intelligence process works. Now, that's a real secret. That is not the kind of stuff that Manning is accused of releasing. How we did this and what if any Bush's role is in it, how far back this intelligence effort really went, etc. is top, top secret.

I just don't think this report is true. Bush could not be that stupid.

Simply because it was Bush's lack of any effort whatsoever to find the guy that enabled Obama to do so.

fulfilling his long-lost National Guard duty, and served as a member of the elite squad that took bin Laden out? In that case, he deserves credit. Otherwise, he deserves only blame.

He knows he feels bad about something, he's just having trouble pinning it down.

I take that to mean he felt he should have taken that lap alone, without Obama.

What a miserable failure George W. Bush is. Far worse than I thought. And here I was cutting him some slack just the other day because he said he felt responsible for sending all those people to war, including those who died and those who came back without limbs. That was clearly a mistake on my part.

Fool me once...

Clearly my knee jerk response isn't appropriate... not after reading from an actual named source.

Lots of people don't like it and think Obama is weak because of it, but I hope he never stops. It's a big source of power.

Notice how Bush kept his flap shut for three years. He was even getting some credit for keeping his yap shut. But this one finally broke the camel's back. Why on earth would he want anybody to know that he sulking?

Just when people were starting to say he's matured since leaving office, he shrinks himself down to pea status. What a dumb thing to do. He looks petty now.

He should try thinking for once.

He was invited and declined. The idea that he would decline an invitation and then be pissed that he wasn't included is just stupid.

The Daily News story quotes an "unnamed source."

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2011/05/05/state/n094427D82.DTL">This story has quotes from both Laura Bush and Bush's spokesman.

only reason Obama was able to do it is because Bush didn't want to look for him.

If something had gone wrong with this mission, Pres O would have taken the hit politically. Conversely the success of the mission belongs entirely to Pres O.

Bush is a narcissistic sociopath with delusions of grandeur.

If he can't be the center of attention, he throws a tantrum.

BHN

thanks

or better yet, Obama's you-know-whats. The size of the latter is enough to go around.

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