Letters to the Editor
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Here is a clue as to the source of Bushs' intellect...
Having been infected early on, Bush's intellect withered with his curiousity. For a clue as to what he caught, and what has become of it check the following links;
http://www.flickr.com/photos/12461951@N03/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/12461951@N03/1350412787/
Seem clearer now? ;)
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Reading?
A guy who reads Cormac McCarthy isn't a dummy.
Am I the only one who was reminded of Otto from "Fish Called Wanda" saying that apes don't read philosophy? Bush has said that the lesson of Viet Nam was that "we should have stayed", for instance, and that really isn't too different from "the central message of Buddhism is 'every man for himself'".
So, yes. It's completely possible to read a lot (in a desperate search for some kind of rhetorical cover and/or validation, maybe?) and not really understand what it is you're reading. How is this not beyond obvious?
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oohhhh Hitlery
I likes it when you're angry! Did you know that like homesexuality, you are born predestined to be a conservative. Of course, Chuckie "boys in the crawl space" Krauthammer has probably whispered that in your ear many times before, him being a psychiatrist and all.
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Call It Like You See It
"the president told me he just didn't remember the meeting. I don't think he was lying to me, per se."
Why do journalists have such a difficult time calling a liar a liar? I have heard more journalists beat around the bush (yes I said it) when King George lies than I can count.
Also Dear Leader has a "pungent personality". C'mon just say it, Bush stinks!
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The king is in the altogether..
Harriet Miers, herself a candidate for the Supreme Court, though maybe not a very distinguished one, said that Bush was the smartest man she had ever met. Maybe a bit of hyperbole, but she must have had a lot to do with him over the years and he must have impressed her.
Interesting that Draper does not comment on the fact that Bush is supposedly a deeply religious man.
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This interview is both disturbing and reassuring
It is disturbing that such insecure minds can be leading our nation and the free world. It is reassuring because it confirms what so many bloggers have been saying about GWB and the key players he surrounded himself with- they are as emotionally handicapped as he is. These are my thoughts on some of the comments made during the interview to back up this view:
“Draper introduces a three-dimensional man full of contradictions. His George Bush is charming, petulant, open and insecure, smart but allergic to inconvenient facts.”
Smart does not just mean your brain functions well; smart means that you learn from your experiences and through curiosity improve your critical thinking skills. No one who is allergic to inconvenient facts is open or will remain charming if you challenge their statements or thinking. There is nothing charming about a fake, not genuine person, who is only looking for you to agree and is always scheming to speak or act in any way that will ensure you do agree, due to that person’s extreme insecurity.
“In the wake of Katrina, he sort of pushed back on his aides who said he should take more responsibility. And saying, People not getting bottles of water, do they expect me to be the one doing that? There was sort of this petulance.”
Someone so sure he sees history and himself far better than you, is not going to worry about some little disaster and what is happening to people unless it will serve broader political aims. Someone whose every financial need was always taken care of, has political and money power from toddler hood, and is very insecure in his place in his family, is too busy looking for ways to please daddy to be bothered by any suffering by others.
“I think in a way he's like a baseball umpire who feels like if you call a ball a strike, you've got to stick to that. Otherwise people will question you. They will think that your equivocation is a sign of a lack of certainty.”
If you show any lack of certainty that means that you will have to confront your inner insecurity and accept you have human failings and thus not live up to daddy’s and mommy’s expectations particularly when you have a brother who always shines. It didn’t help that you had to attend a prestigious Ivy League university and felt so inadequate around so many others with far better knowledge and thinking skills. And then the same thing happened when you joined the Air National Guard so you do what you always do, run away and drown your sorrows in booze and drugs.
“I think that historians will be exploring less the conflict in the administration and whether the people in the West Wing disagreed with each other [than] whether the president was willing to surround himself with people who disagreed with him. I think that's a matter that historians will spend a lot of time on.”
You can’t have people around you that will shine brighter or by example point out your shortcomings. And those that are smarter better be able to impress you with false praise and deference, then through your emotional blindness you won’t admit or maybe even know when they are manipulating you to feed their big, insecure egos, because if you did, you would feel even more insecure.
“I think that what's difficult to reconcile is this man's brightness with his capacity for incuriosity. I think where the rubber meets the road there is that Bush, for all of his talk about him being so comfortable in his own skin, possesses insecurities like the rest of us. And Bush, due to his insecurities, really doesn't like to be challenged.”
Curiosity doesn’t develop when you don’t suffer the true consequences from the decisions you make and from an early age learn that blaming other things or people keeps you from experiencing those consequences. You don’t want to learn to be a better person, you only want to know what will cover-up your insecurities.
“I think because his insecurity drives him to want to be relevant and want to do big things, he's willing to throw the ball long. And I think that because of that, history is not going to judge this man with indifference. They are not going to judge him as Franklin Pierce. He is either going to go down in history as a disastrous flop or a really monumental president.”
The more insecure, the more you have to prove, the more you throw the long ball since driving in segments down the field through your learned skills and knowledge gained along the way, is not part of your playbook. You finally found out that you had the skills to play politics get elected president, and then have no problem solving skills to do the job. More insecurity.
What we must learn through watching this president and his cronies is their insecurities can make us far less secure and can have monumental consequences for our lives. We better strive to do a much better job of judging the emotional stability of any politician and his team before, not after, we vote, or we will feel more insecure.