Class

I read a brief description of Decision Points, President Bush's soon-to-be-released book, today and it reminded me of a lesson I learned about class a couple years ago.

I've always been a huge Bush supporter but, until two years ago, if I had been listing his good points, I wouldn't have thought to include class among them.

Bush spent years being viciously brutalized by the left and the MSM (I repeat myself). There was a constant torrent of bile flowing from liberals. Lies - and obvious lies, at that (remember Dan Rather?) - were eagerly accepted by the media and repeated with delight.

And yet, through it all, Bush remained unflappably calm and collected and never lowered himself to the join the liberals in the gutter.

But then the world was given an opportunity to watch the behaviour of Barack Obama. Even though he enjoyed the mindless adulation of masses, the slightest opposition - even in the form of a polite, respectful question - was met with immediate fury at whoever had the gall to question the One.

It was then that I realized that, despite the fact that the left is left speechless by Obama's supposed sophistication, Bush possesses class of a type that Obama is unaware even exists. On the one hand, you have the prima donna who expects automatic genuflecting from everyone who crosses his path and who explodes like a spoiled child whenever anyone dares to thwart their tiniest whim. On the other hand, you have a man who can withstand the full, sustained fury of the world's liberals and do it with a calm smile and grace that reveals him to be infinitely beyond the prima donna.

Here's one line from the description of Decision Points:

Bush pulls back the curtain with a strikingly personal work that takes very few shots at his critics.

The former president even stays clear of Obama!

If anyone had the right to take shots, it would be Bush. Almost anyone else would have used this book to do so. (Obama certainly would have ... he's barely capable of making a speech without demonizing Bush.) But not Bush. Which is just one evidence that he is classier than the left can even conceive, much less attain.