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[BullNBear52]

and George Bush takes art lessons. What a disgrace that horrid little man is.

If I may comment there are many presidents we could say the same thing about.

It is interesting that on the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act LBJ is finally getting recognized for not only what he pushed through Congress but lost the south to the republicans at the same time.

Of course he is also the same president that ramped up the Vietnam War which caused the death of over 50,000 Americans.

My point is presidents at times make foolhardy mistakes and we are all the fools that elected them. (Fools being all Americans.)

I'm sure Bush would love to choke Cheney and Rumsfeld within an inch of their lives given the opportunity. And I can bet that LBJ had no love for McNamara either given how that clusterF turned out.

On a personal note my son has been the benefactor of the NCLB Act which both President Bush and Ted Kennedy pushed through Congress.

In case you missed it here was former President Bush's remarks regarding the anniversary of the passage of the Civil Rights Act 50 years ago.

Former President George W. Bush used a Thursday evening speech to call the achievement gap between white and black children “a national scandal” and urge both parties to address it as the central civil rights issue of the modern era.

As president, Mr. Bush signed the bipartisan No Child Left Behind education law, and he lamented on Thursday that “gains have stalled” and noted that a typical 17-year-old African-American student reads at the same level as a 13-year-old white student. Addressing critics of No Child Left Behind, he said he did not object to adjustments.

“But the problem comes when people start to give up on the goal,” he said. “Some have ideological objections to any federal role in education. Some are too comfortable with status quo. The alliance between ideology and complacency seems to be getting stronger. I fear that the soft bigotry of low expectations is returning.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/11/us/politics/50-years-later-obama-salutes-passage-of-civil-rights-act.html?rref=politics&module=Ribbon&version=context®ion=Header&action=click&contentCollection=Politics&pgtype=article