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Come on, he's there because he's the son of Papa Bush. Obviously it's not HIM in power, it's a mob in every sense: a syndicate, a power network, an agent of other interests, an angry crowd, a brotherhood, a milieu, an office, a TEAM: all of these. A mob.
Junior's got just one role, and nothing in the program is anything that he came up with and decided. All was planned long ago, by many.
So many people HERE fall for the idea that the Iraq war is Bush's personal folly, that he might have decided otherwise if he wasn't such an asshole, when in fact it was all locked in by his crew before they even got into their current chairs -- when all the talk about dissent or Powell v. Wolfowitz is part of the act.
It's easy to see Junior's not too bright though crafty (in a visible kind of way) and entertaining to see him mangle speech (which one cannot possibly do intentionally in the way he does, there are too many instances of visible discomfort). But he often remembers his lines. He's easy to upset, but also often at ease with the challenge because he knows he's got an easy button: use some nickname, throw out some first-grade one-liner, pretend to be having fun, end the press conference.
He's not without significance, because of the appeal successfully crafted around him for large numbers of people, and the millenarian dimension of it for them. He's got power as a loyalty-inspiring figure, though it's quite mystifying to us. He's the star of the show, which means, the show relies on him while he's playing, but he's not the director, producer, writer, set designer, production manager or studio head. Stars are front-office employees.
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