This Explains George W. Bush

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This Explains George W. Bush

 

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This Explains George W. Bush

by Cogitator

 

 

Mon Oct 24, 2005 at 12:06:36 PM PDT

With the neos about to become cons and the shouts of

" next year in Tehran " getting fainter and fainter,

I've been trying to find a nugget that succinctly

summarizes George Bush's behavior throughout his life,

I came across the following.

 

 

 

Cogitator's diary :: ::

 

From John Avalon's book INDEPENDENT NATION, comes

this paragraph on page 422 (I've added the material

within the parentheses):

 

" With the South Carolina (2000) primary coming

down to the wire, the candidates (Bush and John

McCain) met for another televised debate. Before it

began, Bush walked up to McCain with his hand

outstretched, an apologetic look on his face. " John, "

he said by way of explanation, " it's politics. "

" George, " McCain replied, shaking his head,

" everything isn't politics. "

 

Bush was apologizing for the scurrilous campaigning by

so-called evangelicals and Bush devotees (people

associated with Bob Jones University and others) who

had whispered and intimated that McCain was mentally

ill due to his time as a POW in North Vietnam but

much, much worse--that McCain's wife was a drug addict

and that McCain's adopted child was actually from a

liaison with a black prostitute.

 

Attacking an opponent's wife and child--yes, how low

can you go?

 

The answer for George Bush has always been: as low as

necessary.

 

Unfortunately, that has always been the sole measuring

stick regarding the taking of action in George W.

Bush's life.

 

Bush had just lost to McCain in the New Hampshire

primary, was desperate and South Carolina was a

must-win-or-shut-down-the-campaign proposition.

 

Was Bush's apology actually an attempt to throw McCain

off kilter by angering him prior to the debate? Who

knows? Maybe it was sincere.

 

But the McCain bashing demonstrates the morality,

integrity and character, or lack thereof, that George

Bush has demonstrated throughout his life, evident in

both his Jack Daniels-juiced and Jesus-in-my-heart

periods.

 

And the uber heavy-handed tactics utilized against

McCain bear a striking resemblance to the savaging of

Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame.

 

Remember the motto: as low as necessary.

 

One of Bush's Harvard Business School instructors,

Yoshi Tsurumi, related in a September, 16, 2004, Mary

Jacoby-written Salon.com article, that the

20-something Bush displayed pathological lying habits

back then, denying statements he had just made and

then starting whispering campaigns slurring other

students who had challenged him in class.

 

Denying responsibility? Separating oneself from

certain behavior? Sounds familiar.

 

Drunk driving. Not completing his National Guard duty.

Other irresponsible personal and professional

behavior.

 

Then there is the incident where Bush was peeved at

journalist Al Hunt in 1986 and screamed that he (Hunt)

was a " fucking son of a bitch. " This took place in a

restaurant where Hunt was dining with his wife,

journalist Judy Woodruff and their then 4-year-old

son.

 

Okay, you say, this could all be attributed to the

madness of George Bush's alcoholism and that he has

enjoyed a long period of sobriety, embraced

Christianity.and turned his life completely around.

 

I counter with, then I would expect that he live as

best a Christian life as possible, abiding by the

morality emanating from the 10 Commandments, the life

and teachings of Jesus and the like.

 

Is there such evidence?

 

Just where are the scruples in the post-sobriety,

post-Jesus-in-my-heart attacks on McCain and his

family?

 

Where is the evidence of George Bush 'living Jesus' in

bringing into his inner circle an inveterate low life

such as Karl Rove, someone who rejects any moral

compass?

 

Why did George Bush decide he needed to have someone

such as this, someone with such prominent moral

failings, directing his professional life?

 

The same Karl Rove who was fired from the 1992

presidential campaign of George H.W. Bush for planting

a false story about a fellow Republican campaign

member.

 

The same Karl Rove who was ready, willing and able to

paint a respectable judge, devoted to bettering the

life of youth in Alabama, as a pedophile.

 

The same Karl Rove who did his utmost to taint Bush

opponent, Texas Governor Ann Richards, as associating

with and appointing lesbians to government positions.

 

Let's see. Is all this in Corinthians? Maybe

Leviticus?

 

No, but this is the one constant thread throughout

George Bush's ENTIRE drunk or sober life: morality is

relevant, useful when necessary, ignore it otherwise.

 

That's the affinity, the marriage made in Hell, that

he and Karl Rove share--doing whatever is needed to

ensure success.

 

Through his actions, George Bush, as did Pilate,

washes his hands of any truths, denies that truth is

of the earth, that it is not to be received and

righteously obeyed,

 

He washes his hands of anything inconvenient.

 

Remember the motto: as low as necessary.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

" Sarah, if the people had ever known the truth about what we Bushes

have done to this nation, we would be chased down in the streets and

lynched. " - George H.W. Bush speaking in an interview with reporter

Sarah McClendon in Dec. 1992

 

" Those who make peaceful change impossible, make violent change

inevitable. " - Robert F. Kennedy

 

" Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God. " Thomas Jefferson