The Man Who Loved "Short Cuts!"

It's interesting to see how fast people backtrack when they don't want to be associated with something...

Take the case of Georgie boy, many of his most ardent backers are now looking for any exit, any way to dissassociate themselves with the former boy wonder, a genius in his own mind...

Dad knew best. Junior was the dummy of the family, no question.

But that's what happens when you compensate for your guilt for not being a parent, by easing their way to such an extent that they later on cannot deal with challenges of any kind.

Through his youth, he also morphed into the stereotypical spoiled brat who thought he should win one way or the other on every issue that came up. Bush was the guy who always had to win and to win, he didn't mind tossing out the rules if they got in his way. He was the guy who said if you don’t do it my way, I’m taking home the bat and the ball. He wasn’t even subtle about it. Struggling or sweating the small stuff wasn’t simply in his vocabulary. There was always a better way….He wasn't going to study for that grade, he’d find somebody to bail him out.
He wasn’t going to fight that war. He'd pull some strings to get out of it as we all know he did.
What's the best way to become successful without working for it. Oil. It's in the ground; all you have to do is find it. And have a lot of friends of your dad around willing to start you off. And if it doesn't work out, you check with your friend at Enron and he'll tell you how to get out of it with money in the bank. It pays to have influential friends. That's how it's been all of his life.

It worked that way with the Saudis, too. They came along at just the right time to invest in the young man whose dad was the president of the US, former UN ambassador, head of the CIA.

With money, they could buy influence with Junior, get the planes and influence they needed, and lay the groundwork for the future.

Nobody ever accused the Saudis of not using everything to get their way. So, in some respects, they were birds of a kind, people who got rich not because of the sweat of their brows but because there was black gold in the ground. That relationship has stood up well right through the business arrangements they had, including the Carlyle Group.

And don't think our rush in to save Oman and the other cities states in the Persian Gulf was because we hated Saddam so, hell no, it was to bail out the Saudis....

Bush loyalties seem directly proportional to the amount of money involved....and the Bush's have never lost sight of the power of the almighty buck. The only problem is that think that they can use the United States and its resources to do their personal heavy-lifting as long as they kept the necessary low profile.

But, eventually, somebody sits up and takes notice. And someone says, “hey, isn’t that our money and our young people they’re using to do their dirty work.”

There are still those out there who don’t get it.

They still blame Saddam for being the enemy in 9/11.

They still believe what they are toldl to believe and, sadly, there are so many of them, it makes you want to flee here and start your own country. But that isn’t the answer and we all understand that.

To them, we must stand up. We must get people to start thinking again. We must return to fundamental democratic values and ideals and that doesn’t mean tossing your religion and values down my throat. It means the Constitution and the Bill of Rights and the rule of law….not laws made up in a vacuum by self-perceive loyalty who feel no obligation to the public good.

One good thing has come out of this, however, the royal dynasty of the Bush's may be over. Nobody wants another Bush even close to any office where they could decide policy.

And all of the big wigs in the Party haven't stopped running...

Les Aaron