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The Audacity of George W. Bush
Author: velveeta jones
Date: 11/14/2010 15:39:29
Disclaimer: I have not read this book, and it's highly doubtful I ever will. I can only imagine a situation where I would read it, that I would be the last person on Earth and his book is one of only two books left on the planet and the other one is in Mandarin Chinese.
But I've read reviews. I've read parts of the book in these reviews, so I feel completely qualified to tell you without hesitation, that Bush is still the same temperamental, juvenile, spoiled, apathetic man that he was when he was President.
Save your money and do what I'm doing: sending the price of the book as a contribution to the ACLU or MoveOn.org.
On this morning's "Sunday Morning" on CBS George and Laura were interviewed at their new digs in Dallas, no more need to pretend they are ranchers clearing brush and walking along dirt paths in cowboy boots. That's for people who have to ......... work!
The interviewer asks a question that George stumbles on momentarily:
Is there a Liberal bias in the media?
Laura picks it up immediately, " YES!" And then, very quietly, "Well, I don't really know...... ."
This conversation reminds us of who they really are, they are 'Us' and we, we are 'them', 'those people'. The kind of people that not only justify dividing Americans, but take pride in it.
The best review of "Decision Points" that I've seen so far is this one by Anis Shivani that features this little insight which is dead on:
George W. Bush is still the same guy he's always been, a spoon-fed elitist who has always gotten his jobs through Daddy. This is never more evident with his recent giddy admission that during his entire 60+ years of life he has never, EVER picked up dog poop. Seriously. If you've ever owned a dog, or even dated someone that owned a dog, then you've gotten out a plastic baggie and stooped down to do this chore. Not him. I guess the maid had the day off.
But I've read reviews. I've read parts of the book in these reviews, so I feel completely qualified to tell you without hesitation, that Bush is still the same temperamental, juvenile, spoiled, apathetic man that he was when he was President.
Save your money and do what I'm doing: sending the price of the book as a contribution to the ACLU or MoveOn.org.
On this morning's "Sunday Morning" on CBS George and Laura were interviewed at their new digs in Dallas, no more need to pretend they are ranchers clearing brush and walking along dirt paths in cowboy boots. That's for people who have to ......... work!
The interviewer asks a question that George stumbles on momentarily:
Is there a Liberal bias in the media?
Laura picks it up immediately, " YES!" And then, very quietly, "Well, I don't really know...... ."
This conversation reminds us of who they really are, they are 'Us' and we, we are 'them', 'those people'. The kind of people that not only justify dividing Americans, but take pride in it.
The best review of "Decision Points" that I've seen so far is this one by Anis Shivani that features this little insight which is dead on:
The prince cannot be challenged as others competing for office can; his sense of entitlement won't allow it. If anyone assails Bush's character, he will be outraged, as is standard protocol with the Bush family. Bush glides over his nasty campaign against John McCain in 2000: "McCain ran an ad questioning my character by comparing me to Bill Clinton. That crossed a line. I went on the air to counterpunch." He doesn't say how he counterpunched, but we all remember. What was the most disgusting moment of his presidency? That Kanye West said Bush didn't care about black people after Hurricane Katrina. After setting into motion a wave of xenophobia that continues to affect millions of immigrants, and after implementing economic policies that have impoverished millions of African Americans, what really gets him is Kanye West's statement.
What bothers him is not that he didn't invest in the infrastructure to prevent Katrina, or that he didn't mobilize the federal government adequately, but that he made a public relations error by not stopping in Baton Rouge and just flying over flooded New Orleans on his way to Washington. What bothers him is not that the nation was in turmoil after the Supreme Court awarded him the presidency, but that "a few pockets of protesters" lined Pennsylvania Avenue for the Inaugural parade. What bothers him is not the number of people without health care in this country, or the innocents killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, but whether "a frozen embryo [is] a human life." (Straussian ethicist Leon Kass of the University of Chicago advised him: "We are dealing with the seeds of the next generation.") What bothers him is not that the whole Iraq adventure was misconceived, but that we didn't show the Iraqis we could protect them early on.
George W. Bush is still the same guy he's always been, a spoon-fed elitist who has always gotten his jobs through Daddy. This is never more evident with his recent giddy admission that during his entire 60+ years of life he has never, EVER picked up dog poop. Seriously. If you've ever owned a dog, or even dated someone that owned a dog, then you've gotten out a plastic baggie and stooped down to do this chore. Not him. I guess the maid had the day off.
