Comparing 43 to 18
Comparing the current Republican president to the 18th president, also a Republican, whose birthday is today, is a lot like comparing a majestic tiger to a chihuahua. They share some of the same qualities, but not all.
Though both Bush and Grant served in the military,(we’ve still a good many unanswered questions about number 43’s time and place of service,) the military successes of President Grant are well documented. President Bush did most everything he could to avoid proper military service to his country. Being a fortunate son of privilege he was assigned to the National Guard, then a method of avoiding active duty, a branch of the service that was at the time filled with the sons of ranking politicians and the sons of giants of industry.
Where as Grant came into a conflict, the American Civil War, as a decisive commander who brought the fighting to an end, Bush began a war in another country, a nation that was at peace, and created an ongoing civil war that appears to have no end.
U.S. Grant was a military strategist who had a plan and worked it. G.W. Bush is a "stratgerist" who began a war with no idea of how to end it.
President Grant was a man, a soldier, who, he himself went into battle and he, himself, confronted the enemy. President Bush is the entitled leader who delegates the administration of the war to subordinates. He is the president who refuses personally to be accountable if his Secretary of Defense or generals or CIA agents decide to abuse, utterly humiliate and torture the enemy. Bush is not responsible.
U.S. Grant is seen as a man of great compassion. G.W. Bush has only shown caring toward his constituency, the Haves and the Have-mores.
If, at the end of his time in office, GWB receives an offer to pen his memoirs, and even if he hires several ghostwriters and revisionist historians to do so, his account of his life story will never measure up to the great literature that Grant’s book is considered by many critics to be. READ MORE! CONTINUES HERE!