From the July 19th NYT:
Animal House Summit
By MAUREEN DOWD
Reporters who covered W.’s 2000 campaign often wondered whether the Bush scion would give up acting the fool if he got to be the king.
Would he stop playing peekaboo with his pre-meal moist towels during airplane interviews? Would he quit scrunching up his face and wiggling his eyebrows at memorial services? Would he replace levity and inanity with gravity?
“In many regards, the Bush I knew did not seem to be built for what lay ahead,’’ wrote Frank Bruni, the Times writer who covered W.’s ascent, in his book “Ambling Into History.” “The Bush I knew was part scamp and part bumbler, a timeless fraternity boy and heedless cutup, a weekday gym rat and weekend napster, an adult with an inner child that often brimmed to the surface or burst through.”
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Wow, does he have his eyes open? Does Bush know what's going on in Iraq now that he's installed his "democracy"? Putin and everyone else on the planet know it's a disaster over there and that pretty much everything Bush touches turns to shit, as he installs incompetents at every opportunity and tries to force his stupid ideas on the world. Putin told Bush: "We certainly would not want to have the same kind of democracy that they have in Iraq, quite honestly."
Note regarding the picture of Bush: The deer in the headlights look comes back: This is the look he gets when he remembers that he’s an idiot who was “elected to” a job he is not qualified for, hoping no one will notice (like a little kid who thinks he can turn himself invisible). Right now he just wishes he was back on his ranch in Texas chopping wood, digging a ditch or whatever other meaning task he likes to make himself feel tough.
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