A little peek inside George Bush
He's made statements like this before, but today's jumped out.
Translation: I'm better than all you smart guys.
(Forget the fact that his father was president, and he was carried into office by his father's large donor/fundraisers in 1999.)
But first I want to thank all the good folks at DuPont for really leading with your brains. And as the Secretary of Energy, Sam Bodman, told me coming in -- he said, when he was -- see, he's like a graduate from MIT, which -- so he's a smart guy and I'm the President. But anyway -- (laughter.) It's the way it works sometimes, you know.
Translation: I'm better than all you smart guys.
(Forget the fact that his father was president, and he was carried into office by his father's large donor/fundraisers in 1999.)
posted by mikevotes at
4:28 PM
7 Comments:
This man is too arrogant to know how dumb he really is. I suppose that's a blessing, in a way.
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Anonymous, at 6:53 PM
He thinks he has "street smarts." And in a way he does. He got 51% of voters to vote for him in '04.
I blame Americans who increasingly value arrogant ignorance over the educated intelligence.
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-epm, at 7:33 PM
It so sums up the arrogance and obliviousness, and underlines the false self image and denial that blocks him from accepting help from the James Baker's of the world.
It's his tragic flaw, only in this tragedy, he's not the only one paying.
Mike
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mikevotes, at 9:16 PM
He was appointed President. You need money and friends for that, not brains.
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Anonymous, at 2:15 AM
But he really believes it's something in him.
Mike
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mikevotes, at 7:33 AM
Yes, he really does believe that there's something special about himself. If he were smarter, he would know better.
He's not special, of course -- he just thinks so. I'll go out on a limb, and guess that his religious upbringing and his silver-spoon old-money Connecticut childhood are large parts of his arrogant outlook on life.
He was appointed president, as Romunov points out. Both elections were extremely close, which most of us would consider as carrying no special mandate from the people. Yet, he conducts himself as if he had been acclaimed Emperor.
He has committed the country to a war, without congressional consent, in order to claim the special powers that are granted to a commander-in-chief in times of emergency. If he can maintain the state of emergency, he can continue to autocratically dictate policy.
That is, until we as a nation are fed up. We can impeach him, and then ignore him. I say we do that.
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Anonymous, at 10:39 AM
He wasn't brought up heavy religious was he?
Wasn't his formative religious experience at 40 when he was "born again" after Laura threatened to leave him for all the boozing?
And, since then, he has attributed all his successes to his "faith" even though most of them have come at the hands of his family's friends.
I could be well wrong about the upbringing, but I didn't think Babs and George pushed religion all that hard. (Look at the non-political sons.)
Mike
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mikevotes, at 1:04 PM
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