Father should have known better

I applaud Newsweek's big-time stinging rebuke and put-down of our lame duck president:
(Father Knows Best)




Bush the father should have known better some years ago when republican power-brokers saw in his namesake son a person simple, brash and gullible  enough to talk the talk that would fool evangelical power-mongers and  get the party enough votes from the religious right to take command of the government.

I seriously doubt that Bush 41 was ever - even in his weakest moments - a believer that God is a political partisan who intervened in an American election to force Bush 43 on the United States of America.

If it was so important in terms of family legacy, power and patritiotism, how is it that Bush Sr. had so little impact on choosing someone so inept as the scion of en elite family when the more gifted son was available in Florida?

In this regard, Poppy and Mommy Bush have dis-served their country big-time.

If they have not been pretending all this time that their oldest son was and remains presidential material, then they become among the most gullible and blind American parents alive today.

On the other hand, if they were both aware that the irresponsible flyboy had no business running for president of the United States, let alone governing with skill and depth, then they owe the rest of us big time.

One is wont to ask, "Did you know your namesake was not intellectually nor morally up to the presidency of the United States?

If so, why would you have  kept quiet, letting Rove, Baker and the republican kingmakers have their way with him back in the late 1990's - setting him up for such a great risk of being remembered as America's worst, dumbest and most dishonest president?"



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Oh my God!  Is that cover real?  Man, it's like we just left Bizarro World!  We take the House AND Senate, Rummy gets fired, and now parts of the mainstream media are picking up on the "Yet Another Case of Daddy's Friends Bailing out George W the Loser" story line!  Incredible...


"I, even I know the solution: love, music, wine and revolution" -The Magnetic Fields
by CranesAreFlying on Sun Nov 12, 2006 at 04:05:53 PM EST

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While this article reveals the obvious, that GWB, never more than really a shrub after all, was entirely unqualified for any representative office, much less the United States presidency, yet the article fails miserably to reveal just how severely, perhaps irreparably damaged, has become our very government itself under his tenure.  What must be first stated is the fact that George Bush the elder president was also an utter failure at governing.  He was completely unaware of the affliction of whole segments of the body politic, uncomprehending of their economic and social plight, as he looked down upon the masses, much as a medieval patrone would dismiss his underlings.  He was utterly clueless as to the Ross Perot phenomenon and the requisite for balanced budgets, and was utterly astonished when a dazzling campaigner like Bill Clinton, whom Bush 41 must surely have thought of as white trash (lest we forget the elder Bush's reference to the Clinton/Gore team as "bozos").  And the elder Bush thought so little of the reign of succession to our Highest Office that no less than Dan Quayle was considered his choice for eminent presidential timber.  It was the Bush/Baker team who unleashed upon America the forces bent on revenge--thus, thrusting upon the state of Texas Bush 41's wholly unworthy son in the role of governor if only to rebuke then Texas Governor Ann Richards for her diatribe, "Poor George.  He can't help it.  He was born with a silver spoon in his mouth."  Once Richards was ousted, the greater revenge was sought in earnest--the white trash Clinton would need to learn his place.  Thus, just two years into CLinton's presidency, devoid of any honeymoon (the Fourth Estate hated Bill Clinton every bit as much as did the Bush patricians and their Newt Gingrich Radical Right descendants) the Baker/Gingrich coalition gave the incendiary forces enough credence to thrust them into total congressional power.  Of course one priority was dealing with their public enemy #1--President Clinton, and when, riding a wave of popularity born of a long period of peace and prosperity, he easily acquired a second term, the incendiary forces could not be controlled.  Forget Kenneth Starr and his witch hunt, they would be sated only with Clinton blood, and thus did they promulgate the impeachment of a twice popularly elected president (unprecedented, inasmuch as the only other politically motivated impeachment, that of Andrew Johnson, was of an unelected successor to Lincoln in the aftermatch of a bitter Civil War)--indeed of a President then enjoying a plus seventy percent job approval level.  When Clinton survived, still wildly popular particularly on the international stage, off went Daddy Bush's forces to thrust Shrub into the Presidency. As it could not be won, there would need to be a coup d'etat--abetted by the American Fourth Estate, pining for that patrician Bush family and still bent on revenge for Mr. Clinton, "the one that got away."  Baker, of course, was an architect of the illicit "transition team."  And it has been a nightmare of in reality permitted attacks on American soil, of infrigement of all manner of formerly guaranteed civil liberties in the aftermath of 9/11, a ballooning deficit beyond trillions in large measure by virtue of an inwinnable war to avenge Daddy Bush for the "uncompleted mission" in Iraq (though the earlier Bush coterie once tacity endorsed Saddam), corporate greed promulgated by a wholly corrupt group of congressional lobbyists on a level previously unimagined, and a ridiculously condescending group of Right Wing pulpit proselytizing so called Religious conservatives with an anti-gay, indeed anti-human rights agenda, made the more farcical because so many of those moralists were themselves just as ridiculously trying to extricate themselves of their apparent homosexuial demons.  In short, the reign of terror upon all that was great about the United States did not initiate with the coming to power by Shrub, but by virtue also of the earlier ineptitude by Daddy Bush and company.  So please, Fourth Estaters, no mea culpas for the scion.  The American public in fact deserves an apology from you as well, collectively, for having failed to admit to the ineptitude of a whole reign of Bushes, and to the brilliant qualifications for High Office most evident in William Jefferson Clinton, whose own tenure, both on a national and international stage, much of the public, the Wing-nuts and Fourth Estaters aside, still pines for.  The election of 2006 was a repudiation of all things Bush, Daddy and son and heirs included, of all things Gingrich and Rove, and was very much a mandate for radical change.  The truth, dear national media, at last revealed, shall set you free.


by lambros on Sun Nov 12, 2006 at 04:08:52 PM EST


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