ALGEMEINER
by Shmuley Boteach
April 28, 2015

Hearing President Bush speak on Saturday night at a Republican Jewish Coalition event in Las Vegas sent me into a reverie of nostalgia. The President was in top form, speaking lucidly and compellingly about the threat from Iran and ISIS. So this is what it’s like to hear a world leader speak with moral conviction about evil. Oh yes, I remember this. And yes, I know, I know. President Bush made plenty of mistakes. In his speech he fessed up to a few. But he also gave the world moral direction and served as the scourge of tyrants. What a change from the double-speak of the current White House where evil is an entity to make deals with. But given that our world is in such bad shape, why doesn’t the former President ever speak up? He addressed this question directly. “The office of the Presidency is more important than any particular occupant,” he said. He wanted to preserve the respect for the office by not second-guessing his successor…READ MORE