How George W. Bush has ruined the family franchise

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Dec. 8, 2006 - On the eve of a report that repudiates his son’s leadership, former president George H.W. Bush broke down crying when he recalled how his other son, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, lost an election a dozen years ago and then came back to serve two successful terms. The elder Bush has always been a softie, but this display of emotion was so over the top that it had to be about something other than Jeb’s long-ago loss.

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The son who was wrongly launched has made such a mess of things that he has ruined the family franchise. Without getting too Oedipal, it’s fair to say that so many mistakes George W. Bush made are the result of his need to distinguish himself from his father and show that he’s smarter and tougher. His need to outdo his father and at the same time vindicate his father’s failure to get re-elected makes for a complicated stew of emotions. The irony is that the senior Bush, dismissed by Junior’s crowd as a country-club patrician, looks like a giant among presidents compared to his son. Junior told author Bob Woodward, for his book “Plan of Attack,” that he didn’t consult his father in planning the invasion of Iraq but consulted a higher authority, pointing, presumably, to the heavens.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16115397/site/newsweek/

It makes me want to cry with joy that the franchise may be over.....

[davidwparker]

1. Jesse Jackson to the voters: Stay of the Bushes

I hope investigations come about that will nauseate the American voters so that never consider voting anyone from the * Crime Family back into office.

I prefer a Constitutional amendment prohibiting anyone of the Walker-Bush bloodline from seeking any federal office. Limit them to small towns where their damage can be contained to that small town.

[silverojo]

3. Can we also prohibit them from ever breeding again?

:rofl:

[Initech]

2. They're done. I do not think America will be willing to put up with another Bush.

Just ask anyone in New Orleans. Or anyone who lost a friend/relative on 9/11. Or the families of the troops that have been killed in Iraq. Or any of his other victims.