By Judi McLeod ——Bio and Archives--October 21, 2017
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"The Russian government has made a project of turning Americans against each other," the former president said. "Our country must show resolve and resilience in the face of external attacks on our democracy and that begins with confronting a new era of cyber-threats.”“Holy smoke!” “Are you kidding me?” talk show radio giant Rush Limbaugh said upon hearing the Bush comments. “Bush didn’t just hit Trump—though we must remember that he didn’t use his name directly— but in the process said things that were pretty critical of the American people too,” Limbaugh told a caller to his show asking for an analysis of Bush’s statements. “White supremacy? White supremacy wouldn’t fill a phone booth in America,” Limbaugh said. In today’s remarks, Bush also addressed race relations in the U.S.”
"People of every race, religion, ethnicity," he said, are "equally American. Bigotry or white supremacy in any form is blasphemy against the American creed. (NBC) "We've seen our discourse degraded by casual cruelty," added Bush. "At times, it can seem like the forces pulling us apart are stronger than the forces binding us together." “Bush urged America to "harden its own defenses" in the face of "external attacks on our democracy.”He seemed to call for America to raise the white flag of surrender to globalization: "We cannot wish globalization away, any more than we could wish away the agricultural revolution," he said. "One strength of free society is the ability to adapt to economic and social disruptions and that should be our goal,” he said. (NBC)
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