Thursday, September 08, 2005

 

We're Being Unfair to Bush

I mean, of course, unfair to Mr. George W. Bush the person, not the President. We have to learn to be kind to Mr. Bush, who labors under a tremendous handicap. He's mentally challenged. The family knows (according to what I once read somewhere) that brother Jeb is the smart one.

George has struggled all his life to overcome or at least to make the best of his handicap. He's had lots of help from his family and friends. They've bailed out his business ventures when they were failing. In addition, he had a few addiction problems in his younger days. I've read that his wife got him on the wagon and off the juice and other stuff by persuading him to get religion. The religion helped him get rid of his addictions. Of course, no amount of religion can do anything about a mental handicap.

What I've written so far is based on things I've read about the man. Now I am going to speculate, so be warned. Speculation is not truth nor fact. It may in fact be true, it may not be. I imagine George Bush the younger as one who realized that his father thought more highly of his brothers' intellects than of his. I imagine George as struggling to prove to his father that he is indeed a clever and capable person. With help he got himself elected to various offices in Texas, most recently to be the governor. Fortunately, Texas has a weak governor system, so the governor doesn't have to do much or be very smart. He doesn't have to make decisions about serious matters. These are all taken care of by various commissions. There are clever people around him to tell him when to sign a bill, when to veto a bill, when to commute a death sentence, and other important decisions that a governor makes.

Somehow he has managed to get himself elected as President of the United States. Now he is in position to show papa that he can even be a successful President. He's already done better that Papa Bush by getting elected to a second term. He has gotten rid of that nasty old Saddam Hussein who gave Papa so much heartburn. He has shown Papa that he can cut taxes and make the cuts stick; no one has to read his lips on that subject.

In spite of all of his successes, his intellect is no match for his father's. Papa Bush had sense enough to fool the religious wing of the Republican Party occasionally. Not so with the son. The father named both Clarence Thomas and David Souter to the Supreme Court. He realized that, in the long run, the Supreme Court would lose the respect of the American People if it became too strongly identified with the right wing ideology. He achieved a certain balance in his court appointments. He was a clever man.

We can not expect as much from the son.
Comments:
Oh, how very true this is.

And very well written.

Thank you for this.
 
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