Seems plenty of people from campaign in Alabama remember Bush!!

[flamingpie2500]

Very interesting reading, just a portion:

<<Those who encountered Bush in Alabama remember him as an affable social drinker who acted younger than his 26 years. Referred to as George Bush, Jr. by newspapers in those days, sources say he also tended to show up late every day, around noon or one, at Blount's campaign headquarters in Montgomery. They say Bush would prop his cowboy boots on a desk and brag about how much he drank the night before.

They also remember Bush's stories about how the New Haven, Connecticut police always let him go, after he told them his name, when they stopped him "all the time" for driving drunk as a student at Yale in the late 1960s. Bush told this story to others working in the campaign "what seemed like a hundred times," says Red Blount's nephew C. Murphy Archibald, now an attorney in Charlotte, N.C., who also worked on the Blount campaign and said he had "vivid memories" of that time.>>
http://www.southerner.net/blog/awolbush.html

[rfranklin]

1. Confirms what we already deduced...

Bush has been allowed to skate away from every transgression and lie for his entire life. No wonder he gets so perplexed when challenged. It is so outside of his experience that he experiences severe cognitive dissonance.

[burythehatchet]

2. But darn it he found God

what more does a man have to do to be forgiven...sheesh

[molly]

3. That was a very powerful and informative article

THANKYOU for posting it.

[revcarol]

4. One killer article!!

Especially informative on dirty tricks and Saudi connections, the Blounts into sub-contracting under Halliburton, etc.I guess they are still getting paid for taking care of Daddy's little boy so that he didn't have to do his time in the Guard. Maybe they could afford to pay back the $$Million it cost to train Bush to fly out of their war profits.

[flamingpie2500]

5. Truly Amazing

That NOONE from his guard unit remembers this guy, it's obvious he liked to flaunt himself as a cowboy, and a fortunate son. Someone should have remembered him-he drink alone?

[meti57b]

6. "the Texas Souffle" ... LOL!! ... do you love it or what?!

[dmr]

8. that cracked me up!

"the Texas soufflé," Archibald said, because he was "all puffed up and full of hot air."

Good article. I think I've read it before or something similar, but good to read again. Interesting, those who do remember him can't find anything nice to say.

[Champion Jack]

7. This is interesting

"Winton Bount's son Tom, an accomplished architect who designed the Shakespeare Festival Theater in Montgomery, remembers well his encounter with Bush. He recently co-produced and underwrote a telling movie called The Trip, set in the period from 1973 to the early 1980s, about a young gay Texan and his conservative Republican lover. "

[cosmicdot]

9. "a Royal Monarchy at home" - good ol'boys like to sit around and chew

the fat, and repeat and repeat 'war stories' (incidents and occurrences in their lives that they think have some sort of bragging rights attached - i.e., getting away with stuff ... snort snort smirk smirk hehehe).


~snip to end~

"What does Bush's success say about the state of American Democracy?

"The Bush White House openly promotes democracy around the world, committing the full force of American military power to try creating a capitalist democracy in Iraq. Yet Bush's entire history of success fosters the mentality of a Royal Monarchy at home."