Mark Steyn - Family concern (Profile: The Bush brothers)

The Sunday Telegraph (U.K.) ^ | 11/30/03 | Mark Steyn

[Pokey78]

[dogbyte12]

Totally agree with this article. There is something folksy, down to earth, genuine about the President. People get that.

Neil on the other hand, would be best advised to hide somewhere in a nondescript country, until after the election. In my mind, he has surpassed Billy Carter and Roger Clinton already. They were just bumbling jackasses, who were embarassing to the President. Neil has the potential of doing real damage if he keeps trying to hit up the Chicoms and the Saudis for money, for quid pro quo access to the President.

I actually hope the Chinese and Saudis are smart enough to know that W isn't going to listen to crap from Neil. They are just throwing their money away.

[Dog Gone]

I know for a fact that Dubya has no use for Neil whatsoever. Neil is, and always was, an idiot. He's really good at tossing his last name around, and occasionally he can be charming, but he's a loser, and George W Bush does not like to associate with losers.

[knighthawk]

Ping

[Endeavor]

Exactly right, on all counts. I remember when, shortly after Sept 11th, The Weekly Standard commented on Neil Bush's trip to Saudi Arabia - it was an honest and embarrassing account of a jerk brother selling out his country. Give me Jeb and Marvin any day. Neil is a louse.

[liberallarry]

Excellent article.

[jocon307]

"If I were President, I'd have had the Feds meet Neil's return flight and cart him off to Guantanamo..."

Hey, even Bill Clinton let his brother go to jail, even tho' he pardoned him later. Basically I think he did the right thing both times.

You see, I'm not a Clinton-hater. I support him on a small number of issues.

[jocon307]

I posted that before I read the whole column. I was trying to remember if Donald Nixon was really President Nixon's brother the other day, I couldn't be sure. Can anyone tell me what he did that was bad? I mean, I would have thought Nixon, like Clinton, did a pretty good job of being his own bad brother.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

the baby of the family, Marvin, has always kept a low profile, eschewing politics entirely, except for a crack during the 2000 Presidential campaign that "that great sucking sound you hear is the sound of the media's lips coming off John McCain's a...", at which point he was dragged off by Dubya's minders.

ROFLOL.

Oh my! *wipes tears* Did he really? I think I would like that boy. As for Neil, well every family has them. And four out of five isn't bad.

[facedown]

While I am loath to categorise any man as a "moron", Neil's behaviour four months after September 11 certainly gets him through the preliminary qualifying round:...

A classic "Steynism"!

Thanks for the ping.

[Gritty]

Donald Nixon and Billy Carter are a long time ago, and, despite the best efforts of a coke-fiend sibling, Bill Clinton essentially served as his own Embarrassing Presidential Brother.

Somehow, when Steyn aims for the bulls-eye, he always hits it!

[Capt. Tom]

Totally agree with this article. There is something folksy, down to earth, genuine about the President. People get that.

GW Bush is so basically American it makes the socialists hate him.
They may consider him an idiot but he is not a useful idiot like his father. -Tom

[aculeus]

Marvin Bush for President!!!!!

[Endeavor]

Yo, Buckwheat,

The line you quoted is not mine, so harp on the other guy, okay?

[Amelia]

George W Bush has proved that, politically, he's not his father's son, and, temperamentally, he's not his brother's brother.

I still wish I knew how Steyn is capable of such great articles week after week.

[BobbyK]

That is why Dubya had such a grand time in Baghdad on Thursday, serving up turkey, joshing with every single soldier in the room. Try to picture other dynastic beneficiaries - Ted Kennedy or Al Gore - doing the same, with the same easy authenticity.

Ted Kennedy or Al Gore - doing the same...chuckling almost uncontrollably.

[jocon307]

The line I quoted is from the article.

[Endeavor]

My point hasn't changed.

[what's up]

What! A whole article about Presidential siblings and not a mention of Roger Clinton?