It's stunning at how bad W has failed throughout his life.

[trumad]

Can the guy look back and point out one successful thing he has done without the help of Daddy or Rove?

[seabeyond]

1. as i told my repug father business owner years ago

he would have never been hired in the firt place looking at his resume and he certainly would have been fired by now for all his failures. he has at least been consistant in life, failing every step of the way. and a clear clue in for all when they voted. why expect a difference. doesnt happen. he clearly showed what he would give to this nation, and he did. failure.

[MiniMe]

32. He always went in at the top, he never had to work his way up

He never had anybody telling him that he was doing something wrong or calling him on it. He never learned how to fail, or how to look at all sides of a situation. Its my way or the highway, and his way isn't always right. He never learned that there are times to back down, or to listen to the advice of other people, and whenever he got in trouble, Poppy bailed him out. The only people that he cares about are the people that can help him get money or power, and he was never held accountable for his messes. Welcome to failure Mr. President, the people have called you on it this time.

[Avalux]

2. NO.

How the hell did such a fuck-up end up becoming the most powerful man in the world? Thank god we put the brakes on it before he did any more damage. x(

[Amonester]

24. Methinks the brakes won't work unless signing statements R out...

and if that will not do it (Iran-Contra II, anyone?), then the brakes might work when both a pretzeldent and his treasonous veepee R out (re: impeached, indickted, and imprisoned).

signing statements = un-constitutional & un-American

[orpupilofnature57]

3. The concept of looking back would be way over his head. Shrub is

probably thinking of the name of the library We'll help pay for ,my pick is Impeachment.

[H2O Man]

4. That really stood out

when he gave the press conference (the first one) announcing that he was replacing Rumsfeld. Dad's team continues to clean up the mess for W.

[DoYouEverWonder]

19. I bet Barbara

still wipes his butt.

[bigendian]

5. I saw that pattern.

Now he has handed the leadership over to Daddy and James Baker. No coincidence that the headline on today's U don't SAy TODAY is "U.S. will train Latin American militaries"

[TallahasseeGrannie]

6. Feeling charitable this morning

I will simply say, he IS rather unique, no?

[trumad]

10. unique? Nah--- eunuch yeah.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

26. As a teacher I have seen a lot of kids like him

who have very strong, strict parents. They are very motivated..desperate... to succeed, but they often fail because they don't have the negotiating skills.

[no_hypocrisy]

7. Abraham Lincoln failed a lot too when he was a young man, losing

various businesses, etc. (I believe he even went bankrupt). But -- what separates him (among other things) from George W. Bush is the fact that he made it a point to learn from his mistakes and to accept his failures with grace and humility. He didn't have a sponsor or a father to bail him out of messes. IMO, George H.W. Bush did quite a disservice to his firstborn by consistently repairing the damage created by Jr. Whether the motivation was pity or perhaps not wanting the Bush family name to be sullied by the spectre of failure is irrelevant. He still did it and now as an adult, GWB is doomed to fail indefinitely until he can fully understand how he has failed and takes full responsibility for it.

I don't see it happening.

[trumad]

12. There's nothing wrong with failure

and there's nothing wrong with an occasional hand from your parents. But if this guy wasn't born with the silver spoon, he'd be a hot dog vendor in Houston.

[ProfessorGAC]

14. Why Do You Hate Hot Dog Vendors?

You really think he'd be running his own dog shop? I think he'd be working at McD's hoping to move up to fryers one day. At age 60.
The Professor

[trumad]

33. LOL

I knew I'd get some grief from the Hot dog venders union.

[ProfessorGAC]

13. I Think Something More Separates Them

Lincoln did it on his own. He taught himself to read. He taught himself law. He taught himself politics. He created his own base of support, methodically and patiently.

Silverspoon had everything handed to him, and still screwed it up. Over, and over, and over, and over, and. . .
The Professor

[pissedoffprogressive]

8. He sure it running to Daddy now for help

[HereSince1628]

9. But only because he keeps getting free passes on the mistakes

Some things don't change, but it doesn't mean they aren't broken.

[H2O Man]

11. Patti Davis

has an interesting article on "Bush's Father Issues." Hopefully, this link will work:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15642593/site/newsweek/

[trumad]

15. Good piece

she's become quite a good writer.

[H2O Man]

17. I agree.

One of my republican relatives sent me the article. He thought it summed up W quite well, too.

[babylonsister]

18. Your link worked. And that brooch sounds like a good idea,

except I don't know that Il Dunce could even get his little mind around the concept of remorse.

[demosincebirth]

16. He was elected president

Who are the dumb ones?

[orpupilofnature57]

20. in 2004 maybe ,we're only Dumb if we don't DEMAND Impeachment!

[90-percent]

23. The only thing GWB "succeeded at"

The only thing GWB succeeded at requires acceptance of this premise: The neocons goal in Iraq was to fuck it up beyond all human recognition.

If this was really the secret reason why we went in there, then George succeeded beyond his wildest dreams. If this job was given to any one of us with this mission, I doubt any of us would have manufactured the magnificent level of cluster fuck we currently have.

Just a theory, but I try to think of the glass as half full instead of half empty and give George the benefit of the doubt.

-85% Jimmy

[Skidmore]

21. It's even more stunning to know that his father and his cronies

keep giving him new sandboxes to play in. This time he was given the US as a sandbox, complete with soldiers and guns and missiles, and a goldplated Monopoly game. Y'all, how do you feel about having been toyed with by a really big malevolent and creepy kid?

[orpupilofnature57]

28. Poppies payback ,you can fix ,finagle ,corrupt and cajole all you want

your kid is still a dork.The apple don't fall far from the tree ,besides the lack of piloting skills theres that lack of memory. http://tomflocco.com/Docs/63/BushJfkBookDepo.htm

[DoYouEverWonder]

22. The only thing Bush has ever been good at

is bankrupting businesses.

Look at his resume, everything he touches turns to shit and he makes a bundle in the process. Jeb and Neil have both got rich the same way. They are professional bankrupters.

A lot of people in the drug trade operate this way. They need outlets to launder their ill gotten gains.

[City Lights]

25. So true, and yet he keeps moving up the ladder.

Social promotion at its finest. I wonder what he'll "accomplish" once he's done presidenting.

[Octafish]

27. Zero. Point. Zero.

But seeing how members of his Crime Family
are very big contributors to the Party,
he gets a pass. Again.

[orpupilofnature57]

29. Follow the money ,how right you are Octafish!

[Binka]

31. Octa There Is 1 Thing, He Has Not Choked To Death On His Own Toenails

Stunning achievement considering what he has mentally to work with.

[malaise]

30. Looting every institution he and his

crooked family touched.