Lieutenant Bush, Cavities and All

[kskiska]

By ELISABETH BUMILLER

WASHINGTON

This past week tested the proposition that it may be possible to know too much about President Bush. The White House, determined to refute Democratic charges that Mr. Bush was AWOL from the National Guard, so frantically disgorged hundreds of pages of documents from Mr. Bush's military files that reporters who normally complain about presidential secrecy found themselves drowning in a monsoon of Bush World minutiae.

The documents did little to solve the argument between the president and his critics about where, when and how often Lieutenant Bush turned up for Guard duty in 1972 and 1973. But they did reveal that while in Alabama, Mr. Bush had at least nine cavities and that he has gained 19 pounds since 1971.

There were other details even more arcane, like the fact that the president worked as a salesman of sporting goods at Sears, Roebuck in Houston the summer of 1966, after his sophomore year at Yale.

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Anyone with a strong cup of coffee and a few hours to go through the two-inch stack of paper learned, for example, that Mr. Bush worked the summer he turned 16 as a $200-a-month messenger at Baker Botts, the Houston family law firm of James A. Baker III, who later became secretary of state and helped Mr. Bush win the contested 2000 election. Mr. Baker is now the president's special envoy for Iraqi debt relief.

The following summer, Mr. Bush worked as a ranch hand at the XX Ranch in Arizona, where he also made $200 a month. He worked as a $250-a-month bookkeeper at the First City National Bank in Houston in the summer of 1967 and the next year, after graduation from Yale, he joined the Guard.

The documents also included numerous copies of Mr. Bush's Yale transcripts, showing that he took anthropology and city planning his junior year and political science and Japanese his senior year. The Guard blacked out Mr. Bush's grades, but the president's average scores are widely known. "I can assure you that he lived up to his C-plus reputation," Mr. Bartlett said.

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[Wickerman]

1. The last time America was deluged with a ton of documents

we went to war, assuming nothing to be true and our (mis)administration being too lazy to read through all of it to find out whether it was true or not. Funny, there were a lot of redactions in THOSE files, too.

[fairfaxvadem]

2. TMI! TMI!

As if there wasn't enough to creep you out about Dubya, you have to learn that he was a sales guy at Sears Roebuck in between terms at Yale?? Ack!!!

And those were the days when he looked just like Ted Bundy too, which always weirds me out.

I'm sorry, but the more his handlers try to help him out, the worse he looks, and who thought that was possible?

[goclark]

4. LOL BushIn Action

I just received this one! It is a riot about the lier.

http://homepage.mac.com/webmasterkai/kaicurry/gwbush/dishonestdubya.html

[seemslikeadream]

10. That's great

but now they need to add Race Car Driver!

[Womblestuffer]

3. Bush's cavitie is in his head

nt

[raysr]

5. Having been to

Armed Forces Dentists personally, why would someone with Bush's means go to one? He wouldn't even use their doctors.

[Piperay]

6. WOW how impressive...

NOT! Chimp 'lived up to his C- reputation', yeah I really sleep better at night knowing that someone of his 'intellect' is running the country. :argh: :cry:

[central scrutinizer]

7. the administration needs to tell the tooth,

the whole tooth, and nothing but the tooth.

[eeyore]

8. WHAT WE REALLY NEED IS THE LT. BUSH CAVITY SEARCH

I bet we'd find some WMDs up there for sure.

Sorry...couldn't help myself.

[reprobate]

9. You mean the cavity search as he is being booked........

...into Leavenworth for a life without parole term for treason? I'd buy tickets to that one.

[LiberalFighter]

11. Back Teeth

(snip)
Dr. Feldman noted that the records also showed evidence that the dentist had taken pictures of Mr. Bush's back teeth. "So there should be X-rays hanging around somewhere," Dr. Feldman said.

Well, maybe they'll clear all this up.
(snip)

How about X-rays for his head. I am sure we will find a lot there. NOT

[tom_paine]

12. Bunnypants worked as a Baker-Botts messenger?

That reminds me of a Young Caligula running errands for Marcus Agrippa, Inc.