Bush has been an obsession with me for at least 6 years now. So I decided to look at his life from his pov (although it is also through my filters):
from Bush’s point of view:
I was born to a wealthy family.
My sister died from Leukemia but the family behaved as if nothing happened. But we don’t talk about that.
I went to school at Yale and was a mediocre student, but it didn’t matter as my family had money. But we don’t talk about that.
I was hooked on cocaine and booze for a while and I had some kind of “religious” experience, but we don’t talk about that.
I signed up for the national guard and took flight lessons. I really did learn to fly a plane but I gave all that up for many reasons, some public, some not. We don’t talk about that.
I worked on other people’s campaigns.
I was able to get on a couple of businesses but I was a failure at it all. But I got some great contacts and we don’t talk about the failures.
I married a woman who had an accident herself and killed her old boyfriend. But we don’t talk about that.
We’ve had two daughters, both of whom are just like me.
I was governor of Texas and I executed people but they were all guilty.
I became President of the United States thanks mostly to the judges my dad and the GOP appointed to the SCOTUS. But we don’t talk about that.
I “won” a second term, although it may have been due mostly to friends in Florida and Ohio. But we don’t talk about that.
I was President when the Terrorists hit New York with domestic airline planes and brought down huge buildings know as the Twin Towers.
I started a war in Afghanistan supposedly to get Bin Laden, although I am friends with a number of Bin Laden’s family. But Bin Laden is still running lose. But we don’t talk about that.
I then started a war in Iraq using doctored and false intelligence claiming Saddam had Weapons of Mass Destruction! But we don’t talk about that.
During the campaign before my first term I claimed that I did not want to do any “nation building”. But we don’t talk about that. Now I am proud that Afghanistan has a new constitution and has voted and that Iraq has voted for people and is now working on a new constitution. I am working very hard to suppress press stories here in the US about the Iraqis in general. Thanks to the violence there reporters have not reported human interest stories in either Iraq or Afghanistan, thank goodness. But we don’t talk about that.
I have created a gulag in Gitmo for “detainees”. This has been quite satisfying as it has proven my powers as a president. We have had some flack about torture in prisons, including Gitmo, but I have a lot of supporters who appreciate being tough and hard. But we don’t talk about that.
I am currently President dealing with the aftermath of a Category 4 hurricane – Katrina. I have hired a man for FEMA who has few credentials for the job. There is no death count and I am working hard to suppress any speculation of what the death count might be in Louisiana. But I am hoping that my supporters will be happy that a number of poor black folk are now not a problem to the coffers of the United States. But we don’t talk about that.
I view the Katrina thing as a great opportunity for my vice president Cheney to again enrich his old company. We are again going to give out unbid contracts to a Halliburton subsidiary. But we don’t talk about that.
In addition the oil companies are going to be able to raise prices without me being charged with complicity. Refinery production has been cut by at least 12 percent so energy prices will start to go through the roof. I am quite satisfied that the winter heating costs will boost those oil companies coffers greatly. I owe those boys big time for all their campaign money. But we don’t talk about that.
So here is a man who has learned “not to talk about it” on most everything. But his handlers give him “9/11” sprinkled throughout every speech. But perhaps this is the reason he had a box on his back. Without coaching he literally has nothing to talk about!
BINGO!! You got this one dead center. Anything they don’t want to talk abut, they just don’t talk about. And that would be anything to do with Bush’s mistakes, arrogance, lies, deceptions, and criminal acts.
Of you just don’t talk about it. . .then it will just go away.
We could reverse this whole process if we could get more human interest stories from Afghanistan and Iraq out to the world. I really think the web has humanized the suffering and misery that occurred in NOLA and hasn’t let the MSM ignore people as before. They still do it, but we have an organ of sorts that goes around them.
Do you have any sense of Bush, the human?
I alternately hate him and feel very sorry for him.
Anyone caught up in the nightmare of drugs and alcohol is in pain. (sorry for him)
But I do not get any sense of him having empathy for anyone. (hate him)
His life seems so vapid and empty. (sorry for him)
He is wrecking havoc in so many lives. (hate him)
He is so out of his depth. (sorry for him)
Then he smirks. (hate him)
Who IS he? What do his rabid supporters see? Who CARES? Make him to go away – please!
who has never had to be a man, never had to lay his own path because people were always willing to use him just as he used others. He’s never done any psychological work that I’ve ever heard of and he has so much in that closet that needs to be aired.
Oh, I agree!
He has been so shrouded. I can’t gain any sense of him.
“Don’t talk about it” is right on the mark.
BTW, I haven’t read about him praying for Katrina’s victims – is he still a praying man? Or has that gone by the wayside?
so his base thinks he is religious. I was thinking that he is definitely the reason that proves the quote “the unexamined life is not worth living.” So far he has been a worthless bas**.
“So far he has been a worthless bas**.”
How is it possible for him to be where he is, harming and hurting so many people?
I despair (in this moment)…tomorrow is another day.