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George Bush -- a FUBAR man
One of the loftiest titles one can earn is being labeled a 'Renaissance Man.'
Well, George Bush is and always has been a complete and total fuckup, a 'FUBAR man.'
I hesitate to use such language but it is simply the most appropriate.
Four years and counting into a chosen entry into Iraq, he has bogged down this country into a no-win situation. But rather than admit his personal failure, an act his voluminous ego and pathetic neediness can't and won't allow, he continues to drag this country down a path of futility.
Yes, the CEO president, who would have either resigned or been booted a lot time ago by any board of directors or stockholders of any corporation, remains focused on his personal legacy and not what's best for our country, let alone our troops. Yes, it doesn't matter that the necessary and appropriate body armor and that for personnel carriers isn't available to our troops right now. No, that's not a problem for George Bush.
George Bush wouldn't have been able to lenghten his stay by frightening his BOD and the stockholders with tales of woe and doom if they forced his removal. It's too clear cut in the business/corporate world. There's no fig leaf, or in this case, a threatened mushroom cloud, if a stock's value is plummeting and headed to free-fall. The BOD and stockholders are also usually too intelligent to buy such blathering nonsense.
Look at what George Bush has accomplished throughout his lifetime when he has truly been in charge. His oil/energy ventures, started with funding from from his daddy's supporters and based on the Bush surname and connections, were utter failures. Millions were lost.
When he was placed on the board of directors of Caterair (part of the Carlyle Group) because he needed a resume builder, here's what founder David Rubenstein had to say of Bush's time there: "But when we were putting the board together, somebody came to me and said, look there is a guy who would like to be on the board. He's kind of down on his luck a bit. Needs a job. Needs a board position. Needs some board positions. Could you put him on the board? Pay him a salary and he'll be a good board member and be a loyal vote for the management and so forth. I said well we're not usually in that business. But okay, let me meet the guy. I met the guy. I said I don't think he adds that much value. We'll put him on the board because - you know - we'll do a favor for this guy; he's done a favor for us. We put him on the board and spent three years. Came to all the meetings. Told a lot of jokes. Not that many clean ones. And after a while I kind of said to him, after about three years - you know, I'm not sure this is really for you. Maybe you should do something else. Because I don't think you're adding that much value to the board. You don't know that much about the company."
Even his time with the Texas Rangers, Bush was the frontman, the visible face showing up for each game, not any sort of nuts-and-bolts daily business manager. Plus, nobody could ever lose money owning a baseball team, it's simply impossible.
As Texas governor, he had to cooperate with the legislature and the late Lieutenant Governor Bob Bullock in order to get anything accomplished due to the setup in the Lone Star State. That's why he befriended them and accomodated Democratic concerns.
See, George Bush has always needed a check-and-balance system to keep him from totally being him. But give him a Republican Congress and worse, a Dick Cheney as vice president, and it's easy to understand why we are in the present quagmire we are.
George Bush as leader? Only if you desire someone who can find the shortest route to failure. The man has a nose for quicksand.
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