"Frankenstein" - Poppy & Baker created a monster

Leo Gold (former pro football player, financial planner, MBA/UT-Austin) hosts a show called The New Capital Show on Pacifica radio, KPFT-FM, Houston. Today he started his show reading an editorial called "Frankenstein".

His website is: www.newcapitalshow.com

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Frankenstein, by Leo Gold

Quote:
A photograph sticks in my mind: it sat on a shelf in the home of the father of a friend of mine. There is the father, decked out in khaki and olive fly fishing garb, smiling bright and wide with a rushing whitewater river in the background - and George Herbert Walker Bush, the US 41st President, and James "Jimmy" Baker, flanking the father on either side. Presumably, it was happier times than now.


Neither George W. Bush nor my friend are nowhere to be seen in that photograph. But don't kid yourself, they know the people in the photograph, and know them well. Two fathers and one's best friend and political sidekick. And with W. Bush now struggling for his political life, and with Iraqis struggling daily for real life, George Herbert Walker Bush, James Addison Baker, and their men have reappeared to help the son. And yet the son, still evidently struggling to be his own man, exists in a White House handler-induced bubble act of appearing to hold the fatherly advisors with cautious regard so that he can still cling to the illusion that he is in power, and that he himself is responsible for his being in power.


What occurs now is just the next chapter in the same psycho-drama that has been the life of George W. Bush since he skipped out on the Vietnam War, failed to develop a career, developed alcoholism, found Jesus Christ, made some funny money, and climbed aboard his father's coattails to sail into destiny.

The Iraq Study Group, headed by Jimmy Baker, has released its report. Some think it not drastic enough, others are surprised at its sobering tone, stating that Iraq is bad and getting worse, and that time is running out. But in its essence, the Iraq Study Group represents a rebuke of George W. Bush by those who put him in power; his father and his men. It represents an official document in part written by a group of Doctor Victor Frankensteins anxious to rein in their monster before he does more damage-- to their Party, to their friendships, and to the country that has yielded them so much wealth and comfort. And they may wonder, having made George W. Bush the President, if it's out of their hands and dependent upon the one thing that they never could have imagined that they would be subservient to: George W. Bush, the son.

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I think Leo Gold needs to be heard by more people.

This editorial has some relevant Houston history on James Baker and Baker Botts, law firm started by his grandfather, who kept the butler from stealing all of William Marsh Rice's money, thereby enabling the establishment of Rice University.

Poppy. hisoldestson has destroyedthe family name and will go down in hostory as a major failure! No Father ever wants anything like that!

and had to publicly spank "W" in front of the world.
And believe me when I say, if this coddling approach doesn't work..
the Old man will have to use the stick, but he won't be crying, he'll be filled with rage!

I'd pay to see THAT.

Unleashing "the Bar" is specifically prohibited by the Geneva Convention.

She is a major part of the problem that created this dysfunctional pResident.

She herself is as sick mentally as it gets!

as a matter of fact, I remember reading Poppy's biography, where it was stated his
parents didn't "like" or "want" him to marry Babs. If you happen to ck out old family
photos, you'll see Babs standing out in left field, away from the M,F, and Poppy.

around many times behind closed doors...both verbaly & even maybe physically once in a while. I can just hear the "WHAT IN THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU! screams right now.

himself.

:sarcasm:

What are you smoking?

Welcome to DU!
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:hi:

the New World Order crowd & the Neo-Cons? I know there is some crossover among each group's adherants. The New World Order, by it's own stated goals of one world government, would be opposed to hegemonic activity which would seem to make other countries more nationalistic.
But, maybe this is part of the plan to make one world government an easier sell.
If it's just and out and out power struggle and they aren't some how on the same page, there has to be some consequence for this administration's failure to buy into the ISG report. Impeachment, anyone?