BBC – Profile: George W. Bush

[kskiska]

By Paul Reynolds
BBC News Online world affairs correspondent

For George Bush, it is an overriding ambition to get re-elected. It matters far more to him to get a second term than it did to his father.

President George Bush Senior was something of a patrician, able to cope with triumph and disaster as Kipling said they should be dealt with, as impostors both.

For President George Bush Junior (a description he hates, hence his insistence on using the W initial), it is almost everything.

Re-election would validate him as a leader, and even enable him to outshine his father, who crashed to defeat after a first term in which he, too, took on Saddam Hussein.

It would, in his view, be one in the eye for the American liberal establishment and its foreign friends.

Those are the people, he thinks, who ignore the real Americans like himself and who look down on a linguistically entangled ex-governor of Texas.

At a dinner for correspondents in Washington in 2001, he poked fun at himself for mangling the language, but then paused and said: "But you know, life goes on. "

It did not really matter, he was suggesting, to ordinary folk.

"Folk" is a word he likes a lot.

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[dutchdemocrat]

1. Volk

Volk was also the favourite word of another man in history.

[madrchsod]

2. who else used "folk"

and had the same contempt for the "folk"? the American liberals and its foreign friends? no wonder the Europeans want us to deselect him..