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"This man called President Bush has a lot to answer for. I don't know if this man is really taking care of America. This government has been shameful"

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Brosnan’s jab lands because it’s deliberately unvarnished: “this man” repeated twice like a pointed finger, not a policy brief. Coming from an actor best known for embodying suave competence onscreen, the bluntness reads as moral impatience, a refusal to play the polite celebrity-game of “both sides” caution. “Has a lot to answer for” is courtroom language without the paperwork; it implies indictment, not disagreement, and it invites the listener to feel that whatever went wrong is not abstract or inevitable but attributable.

The subtext is as much about guardianship as ideology. “Taking care of America” frames the presidency as a custodial job - protection, stewardship, basic competence - and then casts doubt on whether that duty is being met. That’s a savvy rhetorical move: you don’t need to share Brosnan’s politics to recognize the breach of trust implied by a leader not “taking care” of the people and the nation.

Context matters: this was the Bush era, when the shadow of 9/11, the Iraq War, and the rhetoric of security and patriotism made public dissent feel charged. For a non-American, Irish-born star to weigh in adds another layer: the critique isn’t just partisan sniping; it’s an outside-looking-in assessment of American power and its moral accounting. The word “shameful” is the closer - not “mistaken,” not “mismanaged,” but ethically stained. It’s less a debate invitation than a demand that the audience stop confusing authority with absolution.

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Brosnan, Pierce. (2026, January 17). This man called President Bush has a lot to answer for. I don't know if this man is really taking care of America. This government has been shameful. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/this-man-called-president-bush-has-a-lot-to-65078/

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Brosnan, Pierce. "This man called President Bush has a lot to answer for. I don't know if this man is really taking care of America. This government has been shameful." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/this-man-called-president-bush-has-a-lot-to-65078/.

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"This man called President Bush has a lot to answer for. I don't know if this man is really taking care of America. This government has been shameful." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/this-man-called-president-bush-has-a-lot-to-65078/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.

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Pierce Brosnan (born May 16, 1953) is a Actor from Ireland.

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