Via Atrios, here’s another instance of Bush leading by example:
Presidential brother Neil Bush — putting aside remnants of a scandalous divorce, paternity questions and a scorned ex-wife — married Maria Andrews Saturday night in the Memorial-area mansion of Rania and Jamal Daniel, longtime Bush family friends.
Close to 150 guests joined the newlyweds after a small family ceremony that included former President George Bush and Barbara Bush, parents of the groom. President George W. Bush and Florida Gov. Jeb Bush did not attend.
There was a good reason why Bush couldn’t make the wedding. He was working on his marriage promotion initiative, pontificating on the sanctity of marriage, vacationing at his Crawford ranch. So of course he had to send his regrets.
What kind of person goes around lecturing about marriage, then doesn’t attend his brother’s own wedding? I don’t know. Maybe the kind of person who talks of fiscal discipline as he racks up the biggest deficits in history. Or the kind of person who waxes on job creation as he oversees the first net job-loss presidential term in 70 years. Or the kind of person who talks about a “humble” foreign policy, then embarks in one of the largest nation-building experiments in U.S. history.
A hypocrite, that’s who.