shamrock said:
you know, I really don't think George is a bad guy. I certainly don't think he is qualified to be president, but he probably isn't a bad guy. It's everything that's transpired around him and the people he chose to make the decisions that makes me despise him. The Roves, the Rumsfeld s, the Wolfawitzs. The way he won Florida, the way he let Rove talk him into trashing the good Senator from Arizona In the primary. I mean, who would accept a victory like that in Florida, it was so Barry Bonds like. Who would want victory like that?
Yeah, actually it's a pretty interesting synergy. He amassed a cabal of his dad's colleagues who are politically savvy and he kind of sat back and let them do their thing. Rove, Cheney, Perle, Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld...etc...etc...
The difference is that his dad wasn't stupid enough to go to Baghdad and made a firm stand against it. That left the cabal hungry and they finally got their mark 9 years later.
When another of his dads guys, Colin Powell, didn't tow the company line, he was fired.
It's a very clever strategy for somebody who, like the rest of us, realize that he has no business being president.
I agree though, he doesn't seem like a bad guy. He can laugh at himself, which is always a good trait. He can be funny, both intentionally or otherwise. I don't think he's terribly stupid, in relation to other presidents, but I really have never gotten the sense that he's the one driving policy.
