The Democrats Who Adored George H. W. Bush
The death of the nation’s 41st president marks the passing of bipartisan respect and comity.
George H. W. Bush exemplified the traditional expectations of an American president: dignified, gracious, restrained, resolute. Though voters gave him only one term in the White House, he commanded bipartisan respect, as leading Democrats’ tributes have shown Saturday following his death in Houston at 94. His passing leaves the country without a unifying figure who transcends tribal political disdain. It’s hard to imagine one party’s eminences uniting in such unalloyed praise for any living figure from across the aisle.
Barack Obama, who had Bush just this week during a trip to Houston, paid tribute to Bush’s foreign policy, which ejected Saddam Hussein from
