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Fortunate Son: George W. Bush and the Making of an American President by James Hatfield (Soft Skull Press Inc, 2002)
Upon winning the Governorship of Texas, Bush became known for a casual, friendly style, often spontaneously visiting his fellow lawmakers in Austin. However, this single baby-boomer-style element of his legacy is overshadowed by the results of "compassionate conservatism:" |
Bush is described in Fortunate Son as being politically to the right of his father. His lack of real compassion planned a nuclear waste dump 5 miles away from the poor, Hispanic town of Sierra Blanca. Rather than grant clemency to born-again death-row inmate Karla Fay Tucker, Bush waited until the last possible moment before grand-standing in the media spotlight and again refusing to reconsider, despite the pleas of prominent religious leaders.
With 54 pages of source notes, Hatfield's book is a researched, precision-cut account. It balances Bush the likeable fellow with Bush the politician America needs to get to know better. And this was written before Enron, before anthrax, before Iraq. And the Shrub has just returned to the White House after a month's R & R back home on the range. As the US elections loom closer once more, be afraid, be very fucken afraid.
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Dont worry about that good ol' boy Hatfield. He got was coming to him! Dont mess with the Bushies! |
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Bush will soon be a tossed salad. It has been 716 days since Bush said he would catch Osama bin Laden 'Dead or Alive!' And now he has his hand caught in the Iraqi cookie jar, heh heh heh! |
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Hi there, my name doesn't matter a whole bunch but call me Nathan B. Lately and I've just come across this unusual but vauable web site. I offer this link, a darned good overview of both the Hatfield book and that creature of the Zionist Cabal, Bush Jr himself, and his money-grubbing family: http://www.monitor.net/monitor/0309a/default.html If you can't handle"clicking" your mouse, here's a taste anyhow (But I do urge you to follow this valuable link... and the Texas fink! Thanks Ozzies, we all know our leadership is not necessarily representative of the majority view!): "Prescott Bush, the father of the former President and the grandfather of the current candidate, spent more than a decade helping his father-in-law George Herbert Walker finance Adolf Hitler from the Wall Street bank, Union Banking Corporation. Walker was one of Hitler's most powerful supporters in the United States, and landed Prescott Bush a job as a director at the firm. From 1924 to 1936, Bush's bank invested heavily in Nazi Germany, selling $50 million of German bonds to American investors. In 1934, a congressional investigation believed that Walker's Hamburg-America Line subsidized a wide range of pro-Nazi efforts in both Germany and the United States. One of Walker's employees, Dan Harkins, delivered testimony to Congressional leaders regarding Walker's Nazi sympathies and business transactions." Needless to say, the Bush clan's hooks have more recent claw marks in what we might call current affairs... Good day then. Nathan B. Lately, New Mexico. |
