Ari Fleischer, President George W. Bush's former spokesman,the one to question Bush during a weekend event, pushed back strongly today against media reports that Bush criticized President Barack Obama's foreign policy on ISIS and Iran.
Bush spoke Saturday night before a closed-door meeting of wealthy donors at a Republican Jewish Coalition summit, offering up how he would handle top foreign policy issues from ISIS to Iran as he fielded questions from Fleischer, who was press secretary at the outset of Bush's presidency.
The event was supposed to be off the record and closed to the press. But media reports quoting those who attended gave the impression that Bush was changing his long-standing policy as ex-president of staying out of the political fray.
This article makes me feel very distrusting towards Bush. I sincerely doubt that he didn't mean to criticize Obama and was only trying to cover up any controversy that arouse. This reminds me of the election of 1828, when various rumors and insults were thrown at the canidates, Adams and Jackson.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/27/politics/george-w-bush-criticizes-obama-policy-iran-isis/index.html
Did he directly criticize Obama or did he just state how he would handle the foreign affairs issues dealing with ISIS differently? That was a bit ambiguous.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Yasmine that there is not sufficient information. Even if he was criticizing Obama, it really has no effect. We are free to say what we think of our president's policies and it happens every day. This shouldn't be that big of a deal.
ReplyDeleteWhile politicians do tend to take jabs at one another, the media also blows up things they say, so you have to be careful and read into it yourself.
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