Former president George W. Bush stands on the sidelines before a game at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, November 10, 2024.(Tim Heitman-Imagn Images/Reuters)
Well, he’s still younger than the United States.
I’d be disappointed if I found out that former President George W. Bush, hasn’t been making that joke for a few days, at least, leading up to his 80th birthday today.
If we were a little more justice obsessed and less ideologically/politically obsessed, I still contend the man should have received the Nobel Peace Prize for the AIDs in Africa program, PEPFAR. It saved lives. It changed culture. It made for extraordinary odd coalition partners — and that’s a wonderful thing.
(And, yes, DOGE ran roughshod over the program. I always assumed unintentionally; and yet it was ...
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