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Topic started on 3-1-2009 @ 11:50 PM by truth_seeker3
An article that shows you some foresight about Bush's personality. Seems out of the private eye, he wasen't such a bad guy,

news.yahoo.com...

WASHINGTON – President George W. Bush will be judged on what he did. He will also be remembered for what he's like: a fast-moving, phrase-mangling Texan who stays upbeat even though his country is not.

For eight years, the nation has been led by a guy who relaxes by clearing brush in scorching heat and taking breakneck bike rides through the woods. He dishes out nicknames to world leaders, and even gave the German chancellor an impromptu, perhaps unwelcome, neck rub. He's annoyed when kept waiting and sticks relentlessly to routine. He stays optimistic in even the most dire circumstances, but readily tears up in public. He has little use for looking within himself, and only lately has done much looking back.

Bush's style and temperament are as much his legacy as his decisions. Policy shapes lives, but personality creates indelible memories — positive and negative.

Call it distinctly Bush.


Great article and I think you'll find it enjoyable.


reply posted on 4-1-2009 @ 01:41 AM by whaaa
Bush isn't a Texan.

en.wikipedia.org...-life

He was born in Connecticut.

He own property in Texas. Oh yeah, and Paraguay.

If I owned property on Maui; would that make me Hawaiian?

George Bush is an East Coast Yankee.

but that was a good article on the President.


reply posted on 4-1-2009 @ 01:47 AM by gimme_some_truth
Originally posted by whaaa
Bush isn't a Texan.

en.wikipedia.org...-life

He was born in Connecticut.

He own property in Texas. Oh yeah, and Paraguay.

If I owned property on Maui; would that make me Hawaiian?

George Bush is an East Coast Yankee.

but that was a good article on the President.


I was just going to say that. you beat me to it.

George W bush doesnt know what it means, nor does he have what it takes to be a real Texan. Georgie Porgie is just a lame duck, poser with a bad record and an even worse admin. he will go down and history as such, regardless of what he and his cronies think of how they will be percieved.

He is moving very close to me after his term is up (unfortanatley)... You should hear the people the news has interviewed in the area he is moving to. I remember one lady said " I guess its ok if he lives in my nieghborhood, just as long as he leaves everyone alone and minds his own business"

Most Texans (Including republcians) have lost all respect for the man. He screwed up and thats how he will be remembered(atleast around here). A screw up.

George Bush a true Texan? This Texan disagrees.

[edit on 4-1-2009 by gimme_some_truth]



reply posted on 25-1-2009 @ 12:27 AM by ipsedixit
I didn't see much that was peculiarly Texan in the OP's linked article, unless the thing that makes Texans so special is that they are just like everybody else. (Let's leave mustard on grilled cheese out of it.)

I have written innumerable posts criticizing and lampooning Bush in these forums. I regularly refer to him as Bushelzebub and regard his administration as a trainwreck that only a doting father could love.

However . . . I do grant you that he is a human being. He has a certain klutzy charm that is probably regarded as lovable by his friends and family. I'm sure if I was at one of his barbecue's, I'd have fun. He's a nice guy and I like his wife and children, but couldn't you say the same thing about Hitler, Eva and Blondie, or about Joseph Goebbels and wife and children. The home movies make these people seem to be pleasant and fun loving.

It's really jarring to put banal, nice guy Bush up against the rubble of an Iraqi home and some anguished Iraqi mother cradling her dead baby in her arms for . . . what?

I see a replay in my head of a Nazi tank rolling past a Russian farmhouse with its thatched roof on fire and a weeping Russian peasant woman standing by watching her hard scrabble life destroyed by a guy with a nice dog and a silly girlfriend.

Bottom line. George Bush = War Criminal

It's about the banality of evil. About the chicken farmer who murdered millions in the 1940's. The moral of the story. Deal with it before it deals with you.

[edit on 25-1-2009 by ipsedixit]


reply posted on 27-1-2009 @ 04:59 AM by ipsedixit
reply to post by mel1962

I read the linked article pointed out in your post. Thanks for posting it. It is quite amusing and insightful on the psychology of Bush. It is the kind of article that could be expanded into a book because it touches on many ramifications of Bush's failures of personality.

What troubles me as a non-American though is the alarming way that Bush's self absorption and lack of contextual awareness mirrors that of the United States itself.

In Britain there are people seriously working to have Tony Blair charged as a war criminal. The mere fact that Bush has taken steps to immunize people who have acted against any number of laws in doing his administration's bidding begs the question, "Is anyone in the US trying to have George W. Bush tried as a war criminal?"

I haven't heard of it. I'm sure there are such people, but the prevailing notion that one observes among Americans is that, yes, Iraq was a huge mistake, but that at most, America should, in the words of Donald Trump, "Declare victory and get out."

Americans really don't seem to be voicing any expectation that their own home grown Nazi-style war criminal should be facing punishments appropriate to a Nazi war criminal. The American moral sense has no trouble coping with small time multiple murderers. It has no trouble coping with big time political murderers if they are foreigners.

However, confronted with a big time political murderer who is American, American moral sense goes "tilt" like an arcade game that stops working.

America is a lot like "Dubya" in that respect.

[edit on 27-1-2009 by ipsedixit]
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