Foreign Correspondence

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<<Hard for me to know what Bush will do.>> This is where i bring in my suspicion of GW being not of logical, sound mind.
When i think of what Bush will decide next i think of a Bull in a fine china shop.
From a gossipy type source i forget i got the picture that the Big Clamped Down started in November with intention to make the election happen on time came from a the POTUS that got exasperated with any suggestion that this Big Push may not be wise.
I feel Bush to this day has not made any significant contact with reality that he still has this faith base certitude that he has made correct decisions.What doe he do next? Maybe only a Bush knows(and The Shadow ,of course:)
i wrote a post ages ago simply asking "What do we really know about BushII?"
I attach now, it was written 3/19/2004, posted on ZTTP thread.

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In my last delirium of expression:) i made reference to a book that was recently published by two 'intellectuals' from Brookings Institute that argue the Bush role in these matters are being underestimated.
I but read the review and not the book but i myself have evolved to agreeing with that view as i myself did go through the "he is just some dumb frat boy out his depth being used by the powerbrokers" phase for sometime.
I have now come to feel behind that evermore irritating smirk and his puffed out chest walk of his be a mind that believes in his infallibility and is so damn sure gawd is on his side that i think he could be even more dangerous than the powerbrokers that spawned him into the mainstream of power.
Plus i feel beneath most demagogues resides a mix of paranoia and cowardice but bizarrely also possessing massive egos that make them feel they are born to lead and rule.
History i believe has no preordained destiny and if it takes a terribly bad turn it can end wrecked at some wretched deadend.
Bush is , i feel, one of these wretched bad turns and some other who be extremely competent need get hold the steering wheel damn fast.
Even without Cheney and Rumsfeld at his side he is one wicked mistake and feel people need gain a sense that behind "the good ol'boy, ex frat boy" is something i myself personally sense to be the scent of evil.
What do we really know of this man? Damned little.
Son of American royalty goes to Yale gets tutored through it and manages to learn to fly a plane, which he did well when flying over Texas--but damned if this NOW patriotic wrapped in the flag solid american was going to get himself bruised in Nam.
No let's hit the booze and snort the coke and be an asshole while daddy covers my zonked out trail.
But, lo and behold, by the Grace of Jesus he sees the light gets clean and sober and sees the American flag on the Bible cover and destiny ahead for him (Given that Daddy has many powerful friends to move me on Post Haste).
He becomes the Guv of Texas and the CRWs say 'this must be the man' he speaks our lingo and the neo-conservative glad hand themselves when they find he eats up their philosophy like a starving man (hell he hasn't thought all his life he has got to eat something up hard and fast and so yes sir Gawd is his Captain and the Far Right Wing his bed and he wants to be jolly well The President now, because He is GEORGE BUSH and gawd is showing me the way--glory halleluah!).
So really what do we know of this man---this shallow hollow man, this Straw Man????????????