They didn't care about this story then either.

This article certainly vindicates my post about Unger's last article. That is, Bush's authenticity as a Christian is just as dubious as his authenticity as an athlete or a Texan. Yeah, yeah, yeah, maybe his experience with Blessitt meant something to him. It couldn't have meant too much, or he wouldn't have lied about it in his autobiography.

but it sure makes sense of bush. "George never got much beyond Little League. He wanted to be a catcher, but one of his coaches said he had an unfortunate flaw -- he blinked every time the guy swung the bat.". i know about that because i used to do it. what happens is that you want to hit a homerun. so you step back, close your eyes and blast away at the air - fanning out. i only got better when i realized that i should *look* at the ball and *tap* it to where the other guys weren't. i'd then have something better to do than sitting on the bench for the rest of the inning. he never learned that.
"He was just a rich kid who had no respect for other people's possessions" ("One night at a party, she saw George W. urinating on a car in the parking lot.") that's what the preppys did on the East Side of Manhattan, except not cars, doorways. you'd tell them, "go to the curb, people leave there in the morning" but they always did. yes, you are drunk. yes, you don't want to be seen. both of those are understandable - but don't make others suffer for your shame. take it like a man - pee in the gutter. if you are caught, explain, the cops will understand.
Does anyone need any more proof? the sinner's prayer is just one big fat lie - stirring, uplifting...and wrong.

You’re basically right, the public doesn't really care much about it. They don't care about it because forty percent of the population of this country finds the president’s so called 'conversion' to be a sign of authenticity, humility and character. People don't want to see it for what it really was; the desperate act of a gullible, opportunistic huckster looking for something that could break his fall.

Good thing being called 'unpatriotic' hadn't scared this intrepid investigator from digging up the real story that kept America out of a needless illegal war and re-electing a dangerous ideological incompetent.

I think nearly everybody in America is sick to death of even contemplating George W. Bush's monkey face for even ten seconds.

Yeah, he was an asshole. Yeah, he's still and asshole. Yeah, the stories are all true. And what of it? What does it mean now?

You know where I was during the 1980 start of the oil boom? I was in Houston, learning the diamond bit business. That included everything from their design, their manufacture, their field testing, and how to run them into a hole in the ground and grind rock. That turned out to be the easy part. The hard part was having to deal with some of the most ignorant, backward, horse's ass, dumb-shit stupid oil field trash on this planet and try to hide my revulsion at everything they believed in from Jesus to John Wayne, from their idiotic dialect to their xenophobia, their racism, their chauvinism and jingoism.

I met the real "Texas Oil Men" and the more I got to know them, the more I came to realize that a lot of them were good people with a blustering facade that they wore on the outside like a suit of armor. But although they talked like right wingers, most of them secretly voted Democrat in every election. Why? Because while they talked like Republicans, they were not about to vote against their own lower-middle class best interests. These were not rich men. They were working men who usually grew up with next to nothing. I came to admire many of them for all they had done.

That little turd of a frat boy Bush picked up on their dialect. He picked up on their raunchy humor and their roustabout ways. He made himself a costume out of their culture and tried to pose as them. But he lacked authenticity. While "oil men" act tough, they are for the most part fair and compassionate people who stick to their principles.

Bush on the other hand is just a mean little shit. He thinks he's got the swagger, he's got the Copenhagen "dip" in his back jean pocket. He's got the Stetson hat. But the only people he's fooling are himself and a few suckers.

But anyway, what I wanted to say was, I'm sick of looking at him. I'm sick of hearing that phony patois of his that sounds like no real Texas, or even any real Southern accent I ever heard and I grew up in the South so I think I've heard all of them. He talks like a phony, he acts like a phony. One example: Our "Cowboy President" is deathly afraid of horses. He won't get near 'em. So it's really weird to see that little fucker in a cowboy hat and boots. Where's he going in that get-up, the dime store to ride the nickel pony?

I'm even sick of reading about what a little bastard he was when he was growing up.

So good luck with your book. I'm sure it's a good one. But I have simply had all I can take of George W. Bush and I'm counting down the days until he's on his little phony hobby ranch with Karen Hughes wiping his butt for him and tucking him in.

if all those texans were salt of the earth types who secretly voted democratic, how come bush carried the state? TWICE! and it's not that it was his home state - gore didn't carry his. Someone voted for him! it's the fault of the American People. the ones who have the Fred Flintstone Theory of Evolution. Unless we give way on all the social issues they will drag us into crazy war. is that the equation? There's an article in this issue on drug resistant staph. is it evolution? or god's punishment for gay marriage? will the rest of us have to pretend that's a legitimate theory to avoid bombing iran? even if the democrats win, a "landslide" would be what? three percent? it's bad enough evolving *from* apes, but to be evolving *with* apes is Too Much!