Bush is living in a glass house

<snip>\One autumn day in 1973, when Bush was a new student at Harvard Business School, he was wearing a Guard jacket when he ran into one of his professors. The professor, Yoshi Tsurumi, says he asked Bush how he wangled a spot in the Guard.

"He said his daddy had good friends who got him in despite the long waiting list," recalls Tsurumi, who is now at Baruch College, part of the City University of New York. Tsurumi says he next asked Bush how he could have already finished his National Guard commitment. "He said he'd gotten an early honorable discharge," Tsurumi recalls. "I said, 'How did you manage that?'"

"He said, Oh, his daddy had a good friend," Tsurumi said. "Then we started talking about the Vietnam War. He was all for fighting it."

Tsurumi says he remembers Bush so vividly because he was always making outrageous statements: denouncing the New Deal as socialist, calling the Securities and Exchange Commission an impediment to business, referring to the civil rights movement as "socialist/communist," and declaring that "people are poor because they're lazy." (Dan Bartlett, an aide to Bush, denies that the president ever made these statements.)

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