[beyond the sea]

I swear - he's outsmarted every single one of his opponents, and not it seems as if he's outsmarted a large number of his own supporters. And everyone from the Left to the disappointed Right are still calling him an idiot who got lucky a few times.

GWB: HBS MBA

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1070924/posts

The American Thinker February 3, 2004 | Thomas Lifson

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One final note on George W. Bush’s management style and his Harvard Business School background does not derive from the classroom, per se. One feature of life there is that a subculture of poker players exists. Poker is a natural fit with the inclinations, talents, and skills of many future entrepreneurs. A close reading of the odds, combined with the ability to out-psych the opposition, leads to capital accumulation in many fields, aside from the poker table.

By reputation, the President was a very avid and skillful poker player when he was an MBA student. One of the secrets of a successful poker player is to encourage your opponent to bet a lot of chips on a losing hand. This is a pattern of behavior one sees repeatedly in George W. Bush’s political career. He is not one to loudly proclaim his strengths at the beginning of a campaign. Instead, he bides his time, does not respond forcefully, at least at first, to critiques from his enemies, no matter how loud and annoying they get. If anything, this apparent passivity only goads them into making their case more emphatically.

[coconutt2000]

Thanks for that link. It would appear to me that Lifson is correct and that Rush has forgotten the article.

[Osprey]

"I swear - he's outsmarted every single one of his opponents, and not it seems as if he's outsmarted a large number of his own supporters. And everyone from the Left to the disappointed Right are still calling him an idiot who got lucky a few times."

You guys don't get it! Bush sold us Conservatives down the river.

He gives the democratic voting elderly the "Big Government, Billion Dollar Medicare Prescription drug plan. He give the democratic voting Moms the " Big Government, Billion Dollar Education Plan.

Yet, he gives his Republican voting, Loyal conservative base a pledge that he will nominate SCJ in the likes of Scalia and Thomas.

Then Wimps out of a fight and nominates someone with no record or paper trail of there Conservative pedigree.

I lost all respect for Bush and will not give the RINO party another dime.