The Bush Effort: Sad Reality on the Iraq Situation

[Coexist]

I just sat down to read this month's Vanity Fair, and was so struck by this I had to share;

When Barbara Bush took her 13-year-old son and his best friend, Doug Hannah, to play golf at her Houston club, George would start cursing if he didn't tee off well. His mother would tell him to quit it. By the third or fourth hole he would be yelling "Fuck this" until he had ensured that his mother would send him to the car.

Even if he loses, his friends say, he doesn't lose. He'll just change the score, or change the rules, or make his opponent play until he can beat him. "If you were playing basketball and you were playing to 11 and he was down, you went to 15," says Hannah, now a Dallas insurance executive. "If he wasn't winning, he would quit. He would just walk off…. It's what we called Bush Effort: If I don't like the game, I take my ball and go home. Very few people can get away with that." …

Inasmuch as I am writing this the week before Christmas, any sort of prediction is a dicey proposition, but my guess is that Bush will double-down on Iraq. He has lost, but his past would indicate that he will figure that he can have another chance if he can just keep the game going a little longer. The rest...

It would be funny that this type of child sits in The White House, except people are dying.

[Cabcere]

1. Wow...

What a little brat. x( I feel like he needs to be put in a corner for time out, or possibly get a good :spank: . Ugh. It makes me sick that this little punk is in charge of our country, and people are dying because of his attempts to compensate for whatever. :puke:

[stubtoe]

2. I read that too, it's a damning character trait that he's never outgrown.

He'll just keep the "game" going until he wins or until he quits.

Graydon Carter:
"He (Bush) is a sore winner. And a horrible loser.

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Inasmuch as I am writing this the week before Christmas, any sort of prediction is a dicey proposition, but my guess is that Bush will double-down on Iraq. He has lost, but his past would indicate that he will figure that he can have another chance if he can just keep the game going a little longer."

Thanks for posting this! I would have if you hadn't. :)

[AndyTiedye]

3. I Think This Photo Says It All