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The Cruel Truth About Bush’s “Iraq – I Mean, Ukraine” Gaffe
Published May 23, 2022
Updated May 23, 2022
Politics
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Politics
Published May 23, 2022
Updated May 23, 2022
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The Cruel Truth About Bush’s “Iraq – I Mean, Ukraine” Gaffe
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It’s one of the better traditions of American democracy: When a president leaves office, he typically, well … just leaves. Donald Trump aside, departing commanders-in-chief not only mostly keep off the public stage, they don’t even bother trying to pull strings in the backrooms of Congress or their political parties.
In other relatively healthy democracies, there is the bad habit of former leaders mounting multiple comebacks to the highest office and wielding power in all its forms and forums until the bitter end. It’s almost always bad for the country, bad for progress.
So it’s a good thing that Barack Obama (though still making celebrity appearances and writing books) isn’t whispering in Joe Biden’s ear, and we Americans (and the rest of the world) can count on one hand the number of
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