George W. Bush (1946- ) has been president of the United States of America since 2001. He is due to leave office in 2009. The Bush who was president from 1989 to 1993 was his father.
Bush was president not even a full year when 9/11 killed nearly 3000 Americans in 2001. To defend America against this new and strange war, he increased the power of the American government to watch its citizens. He also attacked Afghanistan in 2001 and Iraq in 2003.
He overthrew the governments of Afghanistan and Iraq easily but has not been able to bring real peace to either country. There he finds himself fighting some of the very same forces that attacked America on 9/11. Better there than here, he says.
Bush says he wants to make the world safe for America through planting true democracies. A tall order. It looks next to impossible any time soon in countries like Iraq and Afghanistan.
His father had destroyed the Iraqi army in 1991. Nothing stood between the American army and Baghdad. Nothing. But his father chose not take the road to Baghdad: he did not want to get stuck fighting there street to street for years.
But in 2003 Bush did take that road. Years later he is still there fighting. Street to street. James Baker, his father’s Secretary of State, has told him how to get out in the least bad way possible in the ISG Report.
At home Bush cuts taxes on the rich while keeping minimum wage low, like Ronald Reagan, making the rich richer and the poor poorer.
In 2005 Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, killing half as many people as 9/11. When he was slow in helping the city, like it was in some part of Africa, Kanye West famously said, “George Bush doesn’t care about black people.”
Bush and God: Bush believes in God and in divine providence, that God is guiding history. And not just history, but Bush himself. This makes Bush certain and unwavering in his decisions, even when they seem to bring disaster.
God or not, Bush also has Karl Rove, the “Boy Genius” as Bush calls him. Rove is currently the best political mind in either party.
Bush is a Republican who was governor of Texas in the 1990s. In his person he represents the two wings of the Republican party: business and the religious right. He is both a businessman and a serious Christian.
Bush comes from a rich and powerful family. His grandfather was a senator, his brother is governor of Florida, his father was not just president, but was also a rich oil man from Houston and once the head of the CIA.
In public Bush seems a bit dim, like he can barely speak English or hold a thought in his head for more than two minutes. It is an act so people forget that he is a rich man’s son with a Yale education. Listen to him in the 1994 debates when he ran for governor of Texas and lost.
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CONGRATULATIONS TO PREZ BUSH
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Nice guy, but stupid.
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Strange times those were.
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Whoa. This blows my mind. I wonder how someone can remember to always speak differently.
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This could be an instance of Palin-like robotic memorization.
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