When I started to read the article I thought no one has a clue.
Lets look at the core differences between Bubba and President G.W. Bush.
Bubba was a mental 5-year old party animal who had absolutely no personal accomplishments of any note before he got into the White House. His education, work history, personal history, everything that he had accomplished, the “works”, added up to a very small number (5 on a scale of 75 (100 is your total life experience when you die) this process adds for positive accomplishments and subtracts for bad deeds. At age 50 you should be half way to a 100 since you have only 30 odd years of legally independent life accomplished (20+30+30 = 80, that's about right).
President G.W. Bush was a mature individual who had many positive accomplishments and a few negative ones. His education finished with a highly prized MBA from Harvard (there are hundreds of successful businessmen who wish that they could make that statement and actively envy those that can); he flew single-seat fighters for the USAF (granted in the TANG) that put him in the top 1 or 2 % of all Air Force officers (as a navigator I was in the top 15 - 20 %), he successfully ran a private, for profit, business, owned a major league baseball team, and the list goes on. There were negatives too but you have to dig for them. Using the same logic as I did for Bubba above GWB had score in the high 60’s before he was elected in 2000. (Ronnie was in the high 80’s when he was first elected.)
So what was the impact?
Bubba’s supporting staff, both private and legally mandated, were filled with people that were no better than him. That’s right no better than Bubba. What weak leader, and Bubba knows who and what he is in his private heart of hearts, is going to have a person better than him working as a subordinate? We had a weak President supported by a bunch of weak people.
GWB’s supporting staff, both private and legally mandated, are filled with people that are at least as good as he is. That’s right, to be on GWB’s staff that have to be at least as good as the President using his grading scale based on his life experience!
What a difference between “from no better than me” and “at least as good as I am”. Which statement gets you a better quality person?
And that, IMHO, is the real difference between the two Presidencies and the men themselves.
Agreed about Clinton's staff and cabinet. Reno, Christopher and Albright at State, Jocelyn Elders, Robert Reich, Ron Brown, Web Hubbell (???) as the Assistant to Reno, Begala, DeeDee Meyers, the list goes on and on. No character among the lot. After he made them publicly back him up in his Monica denials, they all should have resigned when it was revealed he was lying!