A Democrat friend of mine told me last night that Bush

is bored and tired of being president and can't wait to get out of office. Does anyone else believe that? I'm not certain I do.

I have believed this for some time now. He seems to be looking for a way out. Impeachment would be a help to him. It will not appear as he gave up.

I think he mostly wanted the adoration. Now that is't gone he is flat.

the occasional photo-op speech in front of a friendly audience. Presidentin is "Hard Werk!" and it ain't no fun no more even with all the cool gear with the presidential logo.

He's fucked everything up and now he just wants to quit and let somebody else fix his mess. I think it very much fits him. He was too lazy to put in the necessary work it takes to be a President and it's even more work now that he's turned everything to shit. I'll bet he can't wait to get out of the White House. It wouldn't surprise me if he made up some phony excuse and resigned in the next 6 months.

of mine just told me that he thinks Bush is downright bright-eyed and BUSHy tailed about having another 17 months to rape, plunder, and pillage the US Constitution.

Who can say?

I wonder how much he has been pushed into politics by others.

Killed people to relieve the monotony.
Loved dirty politics.

US Presidency = TX Governor redux

This asshole and his entire corrupt family cannot be gone from our political landscape fast enough for me.

It's "Democratic," as in Democratic friend...:)

Old age is sure playing hell with my dyslexia!!!! I can no longer type without a trillion errors.

;)

and as long as there is one more area to be plundered; one section of the constitution that hasn't been trashed; one more invasion to pick up the last few pennies that slipped through during the current occupation......insert you favorite 'one mores' here....darth will keep his worthless ass glued to that chair in the oval office staring @ that seal in the rug.

Presidentin' is hard work. It's also not much fun when your ratings are tanked.

This however is a little different.
Yes it has turned to shit keeping with the bu$h tradition. But he is happy playing the stupid guy with the illusion of all the power.
All he has to do is stand at the podium and repeat what the little voice in his ear says and make some funny faces. When it is all over they take him for a ride in his airplane to see some disaster that he will do nothing about and then tuck him in at night.

Just like the Quaker Oats Man used to. No he can't be tired of it.

wasn't all that interested in being President in the first place, just a rich boy's fantasy or get back at dad problem.

He's a lazy SOB who's never been successful at anything in his entire pathetic life. If he didn't have family money, he'd starve.

I think he got tired of the job as soon as he saw how much work was required. He likes the adoring (carefully-screened) crowds, and fundraising (it's a way of keeping score because he tends to value things in dollar terms), and people sucking up to him, and being able to make insulting comments to dignitaries and regular citizens alike when they are too scared or polite to call him on it. And all the trappings -- private plane, whatever he wants for dinner, etc.

But he loathes the concept of governance, and having to do homework and make nice with people he doesn't like. Various authors, like the people who wrote "Fortunate Son" and "Bush on the Couch", have pointed out that he takes an awful lot of down time even during the times he's in DC. He doesn't like entertaining or hanging out with people ... which is part of the job of being president. Contrast him with Clinton, who spent long days (and even nights) working or just reading up on the issues -- and seemed to get a real charge out of talking with people, even if they disgreed with him. Bush just "shuts down" and goes off to hide somewhere.

(Not that I'm knocking antisocial people -- I'm that way myself at times -- but I didn't build up this phony image of myself as a jolly, outgoing, "people person", the way he did.)

I've noticed distinct similarities between Bush, and two Canadian politicians (Ralph Klein and Mike Harris), who towards the end of their terms, seemed to lose interest in the job ... didn't show up for meetings, acted as if it were one huge chore for them and that they were doing us the greatest favor just by being there, etc. -- they were right-wing, totalitarian types too.

I guess one lesson here is not to put people who hate government in charge of governing?