Two minutes and 47 seconds. That’s the duration of former President George W. Bush’s “call to unite” message.
It won’t take that long for your eyes to moisten as you listen to it and watch it on Twitter @TheBushCenter.
Likewise it didn’t take very long – less than 24 hours – for our current president to hear about it on Fox and Friends and tap out his usual insult.
Bush’s message was a universal pep talk, and it never named Donald Trump, Republicans, Democrats or anything in between. It was a call to end pandemic partisanship.
“Let us remember how small our differences are in the face of this shared threat,” Bush says in the professionally made video while a slide show flashes photos of Americans in masks and medical workers helping victims of the novel coronavirus. Bush continues: “In the final analysis, we are not partisan combatants. We are human beings, equally vulnerable and equally wonderful in the sight of God. We rise or fall together, and we are determined to rise.”