Bush's business career a study in using connections - Hit Piece - keeping the momentum going

page A1 of the Boston Globe ^ | 7/12/2002 | Michael Kranish and John Aloysius Farrell, Globe Staff

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WASHINGTON - After George W. Bush earned his degree from Harvard Business School, an accomplishment that would one day earn him the distinction of being the only US president to have an MBA, his fondest wish was to become successful in the oil business, as his father had been.

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a study in using connections? ... I thought politics was the study of using connections.

Ashland, Missouri

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(is there a problem???...)

Here's the pix that goes with the article:

[FryingPan101]

and...uh...how did Bill, Hillary, Terry, Jesse, Jesse Jr, and others do it?

[Admin Moderator]

Yes, there is a problem, but it seems to only be affecting my account. Sorry for the interruption :-D Thanks, AM

[Dog Gone]

Yawn. Nothing new here, except that the facts are spun in the most negative light possible.

I wonder how many times the newspapers can run variations of this same article. Apparently, it seems to be endlessly.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

difficulties in the mid-1980s when oil prices plunged.

Why, how could that happen? We had a permanent Energy Crisis start back in 1973, and we had an amiable dunce in the White House!

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[Stand Watch Listen]

Democrat issues????

Issues....we NEED some steeekin' issues...

is Bush 'an insider' an issue?????.....that's it....

Bush's an insider..... Bush was an insider......Bush was an insider ......

....c'mon people..... we, at DNC CBS know...._{Bush was an insider .....}

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

I wonder how many times the newspapers can run variations of this same article. Apparently, it seems to be endlessly.

Nothing strange about that, just routine practice . . . of propaganda by repitition. Some of the Germans thought the damning of the Jews was rediculous. Until they had heard the criticism wash across society for years on end . . .

Read Slander, it's an eyeopener,

even for me.

[Montfort]

And Truman was a failed haberdasher who became an undistinguished member of a "smoke-filled room" political machine in Missouri.

FDR apparently did not think Truman was anything special. I would not be a bit surprised if FDR looked down his patrician nose at Truman. He certainly did not brief Truman on much of importance during WWII, even though FDR had to know he was dying for many months.

Truman turned out to be just the right man to make certain difficult crucial decisions that needed to be made. A lot of us (and a lot of Japanese, as well) would not be here today if there had been a massive invasion of the Japanese home islands. Heck, practically every Japanese civilian and soldier would have died defending the home islands from an invasion, and they would have taken a lot of our fathers with them. The nuclear bombs were exactly what it took to end that conflict quickly. Thank God for Truman!

[LetsRok]

Wasn't it Hillary who said that she would use her "vast connections" to help the people of New York when she was running for Senate?

How in the hell are you supposed to get a meeting with someone unless they know who you are? It's called "networking" and that's the way the world goes around. That's how you get a better job. Deal with it.

[RonF]

As long as Bush didn't break the law (and there's no clear cut evidence here that he did, outside of being late filing the Form 4's), I'm not excited about his use of family connections.

It's the incompetence that bothers me.

[Paul Atreides]

WASHINGTON - After George W. Bush earned his degree from Harvard Business School, an accomplishment that would one day earn him the distinction of being the only US president to have an MBA, his fondest wish was to become successful in the oil business, as his father had been.

So, suddenly, W is not the stupid buffoon the media portrayed him to be. George Orwell would be proud of their mastery of doublethink.

[isthisnickcool]

Well, well. Here we have Joan Claybrook, a Dem. hack and Public Citizen, a Dem. hack "nonprofit", spending taxpayer subsidized money to trash the president. Ralph Nader's little group is just one of several feeding this stuff to writers like those at the Boston Globe. Like Judicial Watch, these partisan leftist hacks should not be funded on the backs of taxpayers. Public Citizen is doing good. Lot's a bucks to play with.

I see The Center for Public Intergrity mentioned. Another group sucking up "tax deductible" donations and operating their little empire against whoever they choose. One thing about these guys though. They are one of the FEW nonprofits that actually posted their filing and financial data (UNLIKE LARRY KLAYMAN / JUDICIAL WATCH & OTHERS) on their web site.

I have been ranting about some of these "nonprofits" for years. There are over 700,000+ "nonprofits" in America and many are ONLY in business to push their political goals and/or enrich their handlers. This story on Bush is a good example of a couple of "nonprofits" that are pushing their political views by putting together data that they feed via "press releases and then the liberal leftist press picks up the information and prints it. As if it's fact. They have their own ways of "cooking the books". You don't think these "journalists" just called up Claybrook and Lewis out of the blue?

What's more sickening? That Bush used the connections he had just like every other human does to get ahead or these parasite "nonprofits"? These beggars on the streets like Jesse Jackson, JW, PETA, ADL, The Brady Gun Bunch, etc, etc, etc.???? So many of them contribute nothing to this country. They construct nothing but conflict with one goal in mind. More donations.

As I have said for many years, we need nonprofit corporation reform in America!

[gaspar]

In this world there are about 5% hustlers, 45% producers and 50% dead weight. Hustlers like Bush and other MBA's know the value of a rolladex. They don't forget faces, they don't forget names, they are never satisfied with today, tomorrow offers something better. They can lose but they are not losers. Losers go into journalism.

[rdavis84]

See Fred, here's a good 'un.

"an accomplishment that would one day earn him the distinction of being the only US president to have an MBA, his fondest wish was to become successful in the oil business, as his father had been."

He sure did Great in the Oil Bidnez, didn't he? Now he's helping out the Whole Nation just the same way!

Whadda guy!

Oh yeah, and using those "connections" he was able to build a New Stadium on the taxpayers buck for his contribution to the baseball team he owned part of, as well as condemning 270 acres of private property for it and giving the owners pennies on the dollar of its' value. But Successful Businesses were built on that part by more of his "connections" that I'm sure increased employment.

"The Greater Good", I believe it's called.

[Pagey]

Yes,you are right,Endlessly.

I always wonder about articles that have 2 or more credits.Can't do a thorough article yourself? Oh,what should I have expected,this is "The Boston Globe".(Cough Cough)

[jumpstartme]

The dims need to figure out which story to tell. Either we are to believe that Republicans are trailer trash or they are elitists, born on 3rd base while thinking they hit a triple. Either Bush is stupid, or, smart enough to attend Harvard Business School, graduate with an MBA and smart enough to use connections to build (gasp!) a profitable portfolio. Which story is it? I'm confused.

Now, let's turn this on it's tail. Let's talk about their choices for senators and would-be presidents, if you will...

Al Gore was born on third, looked down, thought he invented 3rd base and cried when he couldn't even score. Talk about dumb...Chad baby, time to run home- someone hit the ball. Where's home, mom? And, what's this ballot for? Never mind, ALpha. Never mind.

Ted Kennedy was born on 1st base, because his brothers were already occupying 2nd and 3rd, and only advanced after killing a woman on a bridge. Some dynasty. Speaking of dynasties, isn't Julian Bond of the non-political, non-biased NAA[L]CP wanting us to belive that they are evil? Hrrummphh. Another confusion, Gee, I guess I need help.

Oh, and let's not get started on AlGore and Ted Kennedy's connections to Andersen and WorldCom.

Didn't Al Gore invent the internet? Doesn't WorldCom own the backbone to the Internet? Maybe that's why Al baby is so spineless. He must've lost it in a line item transfer.

/rant.