Bush completes father's unfinished business

USA Today ^ | 6/15/2003 6:51 PM | Doug Wead

[IoCaster]

There is nothing new about a son picking up the sword laid down by a father; history is filled with such events.

In 1988, shortly after the election of George H.W. Bush, I sat with his son, George W. Bush, in an office just blocks from the White House. The younger Bush had been my boss in the campaign, and we were talking about who was going to the White House. At one point, George W. sighed and asked rhetorically, "What's going to happen to me?"

[McLynnan]

The son owns a ranch near sweltering, desolate, Waco.

Gee, I didn't know it was desolate here. Sometimes sweltering, but never desolate.

[Arpege92]

"the ongoing relationship of Bush father and son is being acted out on the world stage."


Oh, I see, so god forbid Chelsea becomes president....is she going to go after all of those women who slept with Daddy Clinton? Is she going to investigate the women Daddy raped?

[OREALLY]

God bless him, President George W. Bush is far better than his father ! I don't like those phoney quotes !
I don't like this crappy article neither.........
George Sr. didn't get done because he was stupid enough to work with the stupid U.N. !
President George W. Bush isn't any thing like his father !

[WaterDragon]

The nice thing about America is that anyone can have any opinion, and write that opinion for others to read. Merely having an opinion does not give it any particular weight of truth. Only G.W. Bush knows his own heart, and I believe what he says about it. The author of the article has no special entree there.

[Miss Marple]

What a stupid article by the ungrateful wretch who got his fame and fortune through his connection with President Bush.

I am really tired of the psychoanalysis of the Bush family, while no one ever is interested in the obvious nutcases in the Clinton household.

Whatever personal feelings President Bush may have had towards Saddam Hussein, they do not extend to the members of the administration, Tony Blair, Silvo Berlusconi, Juan Alazar, John Howard, and the rest of our allies.

This is total clap-trap, and the author should be ashamed.

[OREALLY]

What will they say if Jeb gets elected 2008 ?

[Archangelsk]

Doug Wead is the author of All the Presidents' Children.

Doug Wead is also an Amway distributor of note making him one of the biggest con artists within the Bush sphere of influence. Those who know know what I'm talking about.

[Cicero]

If you're going to right a book about stuff like this, you need to find patterns and simplify. No doubt there's a little something to this--but not very much.

Afghanistan had to come first, because that's where al Qaeda was. Iraq had to come second because that's where the oil is, and we need that oil before we can deal with the Saudis.

This guy is very confident that nothing will be done about Iran, Syria, or North Korea. I wouldn't be too sure.

Al Gore was more of a Daddy's boy than Bush ever was. He thought he had a personal right to the presidency, because his daddy promised it to him. George Bush has done nothing in deposing Saddam or lowering taxes that he doesn't think to be in the best interests of our country--unlike gore or clinton.

[Paul Atreides]

Not to mention that whole Kennedy crowd.

[4mycountry]

"I'm not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt."

God I love that quote. I nearly died laughing when Bush first said it.

[ohioWfan]

Bet they were discussing this psychobabble when they were out fishing together.........NOT!

Why don't these people give it UP?!

[Arpege92]

I'm not quite sure....mabey something in the line of "The Bush Dynasty". Sounds like a soap opera. :-}

[lonestar]

The senior Bush was accused of not being an authentic Texan, maintaining a hotel address in Houston so he could vote there while maintaining his real home in Maine.

This is what always infuriates me.

I lived in Houston when the Bushes sold their home there because they would never need a house that big again. It was prudent!

They leased an apt. in the Houstonian, which was much more convenient for their frequent trips to Houston.

The Maine home is and always was the summer home of #41's maternal side.

When the Bushes bought lots in Houston during the presidentcy, the press immediately started in on it wasn't "big enough" for a home. But it's where they live today.

The press never mentioned the Clinton's never owned a home anywhere, ever, including the senator who never lived in NY until after she was running for the senate.

The media is not only biased but petty.

[OREALLY]

Jealousy is a beast the dims need to get control of ! Oh no... it is destroying their party...never mind! hehehe

[Matchett-PI]

Where to begin with Dougie Wead and his vacuous article? This feminized male sounds like he has been sent to one too many sensitivity training sessions.

[Archangelsk]

Since you don't seem to know, Doug Wead was one of Bush Sr. leads during his election campaign of 1988.

[ohioWfan]

I know he was. So what?

It's psychobabble, and George W. Bush babbles far less than the average Joe. He's not interested in his own legacy, nor his father's. He's interested in doing the right thing, and he's doing it.

He loves his father, and his father loves him, and this incessant analysis of their relationship from people who have no idea what's going on inside either of their heads.......no matter what his/her previous role was........ is wearisome, and most likely wrong.

[Sonny M]

"I'm not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt."

God I love that quote. I nearly died laughing when Bush first said it.

You do also know that he said that quote in front of Hillary Clinton right?

[henderson field]

If not for the UN, none of this would have happened.