Letters to the Editor
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"I think he's a real likable kind of fellow?" He's a mass murderer!
Bush has launched and stoked a calamity that has resulted in the deaths of perhaps a million Iraqis, extrapolating from the Johns Hopkins studies. He has created somewhere between two milion and six million internal and external refugees. He has perhaps permanently destablized the Middle East, supporting the proposed attack on Iran. He approved, paid for and armed the Israelis as they laid waste to Lebanon and Gaza, and turned the West Bank into bantustans. In his spare time he's wrecked the EPA, the FCC, the Federal bench, and has left New Orleans to drown. He's the head of perhaps the greatest kleptocracy in history.
And Draper thinks "he's a real likable kind of fellow?"
Who else would Draper have found personally likable? Hitler? Stalin? Pol Pot? Suharto? Mao Tse Tung? Attilla the Hun? What exactly would it take for Draper to loathe an individual?
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"Charmingly" insecure? No, just plain stupid. Dumb. Not smart
Anyone that tries to tell us that BUsh is not as stupid as he seems is either equally stupid or has an agenda. The man is an idiot and cannot hide it. I don't believe for a second that he carries any responsiblity or make any decisions but he is still an idiot. I think he has absolutely no idea what is going on and you can tell that by the way he tries to explain things.
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Nothing more than...
...a warmed-over '80s-style executive who believes cutting headcount is the only way to succeed. Who blindly assumes that if he's gotten there, he must deserve it. Who thinks humiliation is a form of incentive. Who won't listen to the accountants and the IT guy and the lawyer because he's the most important person there's ever been, ever. Who really WOULD play the books like, say, oh, I dunno, Kenny-Boy.
He may NOT be stupid. But he is dumb, in that clueless, tragic way that's made America the commercial wasteland we see before us. This is the last 20 years writ large. We will explain this to our grandchildren using Dilbert cartoons.
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throwing long
An important comment of Draper's was mentioning how President Bush likes to "throw long". This is what scares me about the next 16 months. The President likes the high stakes. But when we are discussing simmering problems in the Middle East and Korea, I worry that recklessness will kick in.
We need more diplomacy, where you're running the ball and getting a few yards at a time.
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@uptoolate
"With all due respect to Quiet Type, it pains me even more to realize that, had this 1986 statement been widely publicized before GW ever began campaigning, it would have made no difference at all."
I should clarify that I wasn't referring to the voters. I was actually treading further into the past, speculating that the Reagan worshippers of the GOP might not have even invited GW to their party at all -- or at least found some other busywork job for him.
But then I realize GW was never anything but a mask for the players behind him, anyway, and of course, you're unfortunately correct.
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GWB
Even the late Molly Ivins said Bush was smart. She didn't like him, but didn't underestimate his intelligence either. She despised his politics. Molly, together with Lou Dubose, co-authored "Bushwhacked."
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I don't get it
So he's scruffy, and insecure --- in what world did that become charming?? I admit, I am indeed one of the so-called intellectual elite -- I read anything I can get my hands on, watch TV news and dare to have divisive discussions with people -- but still -- how does scruffy or insecure become charming??? And to whom???
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Charms? To Whom Exactly??
I think that says it all.