I don’t know why he said it. George W. Bush is a great enigma to me. He has been called stupid, even retarded, by hordes of people who are far below him in intellect and ability and it apparently bothers him not in the least. He appears to be affected by it no more than I would be affected if I learned that a pissant considered me to be his inferior. To anyone with any connection to reality his achievements must be recognized as superior to those of all but a very tiny percentage of all humans who have ever been recorded in history even if you disagree with much of what he has done. I know I have never aspired to become a jet fighter pilot, just to mention one thing which a very small percentage have ever done and I was one of a select few to be called out of a Navy electronics class and told that I had met all the basic requirements to be a Naval aviation cadet. I listened to the list of what you must be prepared to do to pursue it one step further and said...nah, that’s too much. Yet I have known more than one whose abilities are below my own who imagine themselves to be superior in all ways to George W. Bush.
One person on FR even responded to a post I made and said that I would have to admit that Barack Obama was far better qualified to be president upon election to his first term than G. W. Bush was at the same point. I responded that the idea was absurd and I think anyone with half an ounce of gray matter can now see that the idea was absurd.
Maybe he delights in being “misunderestimated” and wanted Putin to become overconfident and believe that he had put one over on the dimwitted American president.
“all the basic requirements to be a Naval aviation cadet.”
Those who never served seem to assume that they are the peers of high-ranking officers, or, at least, officers.
People who could never get in to Harvard Business mocked his “C average.” People incompetent to be a mess cook presumed to look down on his military service.
Dummies don’t get to fly jets, no matter who their father is.
My recruiter pushed me to go to Aviation OCS, but I joined the Navy to ride ships.