Ladies and Gentlemen: The Real George W. Bush

This is the most scathing article I've ever seen--A MUST READ


By Stephen Pizzo, News for Real. Posted October 27, 2005.
http://www.alternet.org/story/27385/


"Bush is finished as a force in American politics. How he ever got to become president in the first place -- not once, but twice -- will remain a subject social scientists will study and debate for decades to come. Because there was plenty of evidence that George W. Bush was a made man. He had accomplished nothing in his adult life on his own -- not one thing."

...Of course, for those of us who have covered the Bush family for years, it's no mystery at all. The best way to think of George W. Bush is as a beard for others. At every step in his career, individuals of wealth or power groomed him, and then used him as their front man."

Stephen Pizzo is the author of numerous books, including "Inside Job: The Looting of America's Savings and Loans," which was nominated for a Pulitzer.

When will Impeachment start?

That's the most damning article I have ever seen. Look at this quote:

"...had found their perfect front man in GW: a kind of Forrest Gump from the Dark Side. A man ignorant and proud of it, and willing to take direction from those he considered friends."

brutal, unbelievable.

Just shows you how low the Repug party was willing to stoop to.

"and proud of it" whew....that's brutal

I'm wondering if the gas/oil moguls behind Bush also have ties to Diebold, so that they could rig elections.

Something many of us have known for years is now shown (finally) to the world.

Embarrassing though it may be, it was very, very necessary.

"It's as if the police had come and dragged Edgar Bergin offstage in the middle a show, leaving Charlie McCarthy, wide-eyed, mouth agape and slumped alone on his stool.

So, what now?"

A small sample;

Of course, for those of us who have covered the Bush family for years, it's no mystery at all. The best way to think of George W. Bush is as a beard for others. At every step in his career, individuals of wealth or power groomed him, and then used him as their front man.

These benefactors had learned long ago that there was more money and more power to be had in the shadows than in the limelight. All they needed was the right person to front for them -- someone with a name, a smile, a confident swagger. Vision, dreams, hopes and ethics were not only unnecessary, but liabilities in a beard. All they needed was a person they could program, wind up and send out into the public spotlight and deliver for them.

That's George W. Bush. He fit the bill to a T. Texas oil men -- and companies with international agendas and voracious appetites for government contracts -- had found their perfect front man in GW: a kind of Forrest Gump from the Dark Side. A man ignorant and proud of it, and willing to take direction from those he considered friends.

This goes on and on and everything, EVERYTHING is the god's honest truth. A great read and a must for every thinking person!

Bagging the United States presidency was an unexpected super-bonus. Still, they knew it was a development ripe with as much danger as opportunity. After all, they knew the real George W. Bush. There was no way they could send that hayseed off to the Big Show unattended. Dick Cheney and Karl Rove were tasked with keeping their idiot prince both on message and on a short leash. God forbid he should ever make a speech, take a position, or make a decision on his own.

Yeah, he made the Harriet Miers choice on his own and look what they did to him over that!
And who can forget bush's debate debacles, especially the one where the ear-bud was apparently not working and he stood there, frozen, unable to speak because no one was telling him what to say. He finally managed to stutter out, "the only thing consistent with my opponent......is his inconsistency". His myriad speech faux pas, "humans coexisting with fish", "putting food on your families", all of them spoken when the idiot wasn't told what to say, when he didn't have someone in his ear directing every word coming out of his mouth.

Our president is an complete and total idiot, a sock puppet, all form and no substance. Just as we've always known. :eyes:

To even compare him to some sort of dark Forrest Gump is wrong. Forrest Gump never took pride in being ignorant. He did what he had to do in spite of his "condition" Not to mention Forrest Gump accomplished more as a child than * ever will if he lived to have 1,000 lifetimes.

Not to mention unlike too stupid to ride a bicycle, Gump did his time in Vietnam, however the poor guy still hasn't seen a lick of that million dollars :)

"At every step in his career, individuals of wealth or power groomed him, and then used him as their front man."


"Fully groomed and programmed, They finally steered Bush towards the goal. And it worked, probably beyond their wildest expectations."

I want names.

as president. Think about it, follow the money. Always follow the money.

who sits on the top of the pile?

of the neocons (Cheney and Rumsfeld had already done time in the Nixon/Ford administration and Cheney holds immense power, he's being still paid by Halliburton; Wolfowitz, Perle, Libby, a "wild card" like Powell, who while not an ideological neocon still held immense power and influence in Washington), Kissinger; The Saudi Royal Family; the Trialteral Commission; the multi-billionaires funding the GOP and the GOP's media apparatus (Scaife, Coors, etc.). Grover Norquist; his dad and all his dad's buddies (The Carlyle Group, James Baker, Poindexter, etc), and the CEOs of ES&S and Diebold, who control the voting machines.

All of these people hold an incredible amount of power, influence, and money. If you get enough of them united behind a candidate, there's no way the will of the people can stop him from being installed.

Those people who are not really liberals but they play them on T.V. They are our modern day courtesans, whom because of the wealth which they have obtained for being "celebrity journalists" have become totally disconnected from the real American Experience.

to name a few.

happened without a compliant Congress.

leaders to be supportive as long as they got what they wanted, whether it be money or power.

would not understand what it meant to work for your successes. It's a puppet president.

GHWB had his family running satellites to China and S&L's into the ground.
His poppa was fudiciary at a bank trading with Nazi Germany DURING THE WAR.
His poppa, as far as I recall was involved in helping Germany in WWI as well.

"It's as if the police had come and dragged Edgar Bergin offstage in the middle of a show, leaving Charlie McCarthy, wide-eyed, mouth agape and slumped alone on his stool."

...and letting him go, hoping that in his flailing around he figures out how to swim.

Regardless, it is not going to be pretty...

What a perfect description.

The article is a great summary of how W made it. I love the quote:

"How he ever got to become president in the first place..."

supreme court and diebold.

"Bush is finished as a force in American politics. How he ever got to become president in the first place -- not once, but twice -- will remain a subject social scientists will study and debate for decades to come. Because there was plenty of evidence that George W. Bush was a made man. He had accomplished nothing in his adult life on his own -- not one thing."


"What went wrong? Where were his handlers? Busy. They dropped Bush's leash when handed subpoenas. Junior was unleashed and home alone.

George W. Bush, stalled in some adolescent bully game of King of the Hill, is NOTHING without his handlers and prop specialists.

I hope Fitzgerald`s investigation succeeds in knocking the chips off Bush`s shoulder...one by one...until nothing is left but the empty shell his parents produced and his cronies exploited.

and:

wow.

Think I'll have to read it again

money launderers creating the other part of the bush-base: the "little people", whose interests are actually harmed by the neo-con imperialists, but whose popular support is necessary. Ignorant, gullible, looking for easy salvation outside themselves, all it takes is someone slick enough to convince the credulous that THEIR rule book is the right one. The reward these pomaded charlatans offer in exchange for money and excessive trust is a shallow sense of security and distraction from the realities of the adult world.

The intellectual and emotional equivalent of a baby's binky.

Snake oil salesmen have always preyed on them, and the powerful have always known that manipulators of the common will are powerful allies.

Neo-cons and con-man Xtians, a match made in heaven.

grandfather clause. Then both his grandpa and great grandpa could have been charged with aiding and abetting the enemy!

they actually convinced a lot of voters to VOTE for this clown