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Laura PourMeADrink

(42,770 posts) Mon Mar 18, 2013, 07:18 AM Mar 2013

Is Bush Evil or Just a stupid pawn? [View all]

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	George Bush was a stupid pawn led by evil Cheney?
	3 (27%)
	George Bush was equal evil partners with Cheney?
	7 (64%)
	Stupid and Evil Inherently
	1 (9%)
	Stupid and Evil (Cheney pulled him in)
	0 (0%)
	0 DU members did not wish to select any of the options provided.
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Is Bush Evil or Just a stupid pawn? [View all] Laura PourMeADrink Mar 2013 OP

I say evil AND stupid! MarianJack Mar 2013 #1

+ 1 Berlum Mar 2013 #2

Yep. 99Forever Mar 2013 #11

No reason why he can't be both. baldguy Mar 2013 #13

Bush can be evil by not doing anything to stop Cheney's actions but too stupid to actually be the Laura PourMeADrink Mar 2013 #22

yup RedCappedBandit Mar 2013 #27

The entire Bush family is evil lunatica Mar 2013 #3

Yes. But as far as Iraq is concerned....I just can't see him being involved enough - or rather give Laura PourMeADrink Mar 2013 #5

I believe that before he was anyone else's pawn he was his family's pawn lunatica Mar 2013 #9

Read Richard Clarke's first book. Egalitarian Thug Mar 2013 #39

W is the 3rd of so far 4 Bush's to run and 2 who won the Presidency graham4anything Mar 2013 #4

As for GB not being stupid...you reminded me of seeing some clips here from when he Laura PourMeADrink Mar 2013 #7

Paul Waldman's book "Fraud" about W showed how they did it again and again graham4anything Mar 2013 #15

Well...supposedly Romney was the "sane" choice...the one who could win in a general. Do Laura PourMeADrink Mar 2013 #16

No, because no one would have beaten President Obama in 2012, which is why Jeb did not run graham4anything Mar 2013 #17

Last year, I would have voted that Little Georgie was just plain stupid. jerseyjack Mar 2013 #6

Yes, I was just remembering that too. But, how could he keep that rube act up? Laura PourMeADrink Mar 2013 #10

I think he also fried out his brains quite a bit with drugs & alcohol Arugula Latte Mar 2013 #30

Yes, I agree. If it was a dumb act then somehow it became more - self medicating. nt Laura PourMeADrink Mar 2013 #42

More and more since he's been out.. I'm thinking stupid. annabanana Mar 2013 #8

Agree. I picture him thinking..."This is just too hard, I thought it'd be easy just walzing around Laura PourMeADrink Mar 2013 #12

George W probably thought he could outdo Dad, claimed Saddam "threatened my daddy". Thinkingabout Mar 2013 #14

no option for both dembotoz Mar 2013 #18

The expression "dumb like a fox" comes to mind. A psychopathic fox. WinkyDink Mar 2013 #19

Both, but the evil was just small scale on his part. hobbit709 Mar 2013 #20

Two war criminals! dmosh42 Mar 2013 #21

He can't be both? jmowreader Mar 2013 #23

Yes, in some ways. too late to add both as a choice. Laura PourMeADrink Mar 2013 #24

Bush isn't stupid LeftInTX Mar 2013 #25

So maybe it's not dumb or evil - but disengaged and not involved. He always wanted Laura PourMeADrink Mar 2013 #32

I think he is more stupid than evil. Kalidurga Mar 2013 #26

I had to pass as i belive it is both- ruffburr Mar 2013 #28

100% agree with your assessment Laura PourMeADrink Mar 2013 #34

I don't think he was quite as evil as Cheney aint_no_life_nowhere Mar 2013 #29

I don't think the two are mutually exclusive. TroglodyteScholar Mar 2013 #31

Laura, where' the "both" option? David Zephyr Mar 2013 #33

i got reamed one time for adding a choice after the poll was active. Scars Laura PourMeADrink Mar 2013 #35

Now I voted!!! Thanks. David Zephyr Mar 2013 #38

Bush is evil and used Cheney as the fall guy. You think a Bush ever takes the fall? DevonRex Mar 2013 #36

They are not mutually exclusive The Second Stone Mar 2013 #37

I think he's a stupid person who willingly allowed himself to Raine Mar 2013 #40

you are so smart...this says it all Laura PourMeADrink Mar 2013 #41

Both. A stupid pawn who allowed truly evil people to do truly evil things. Initech Mar 2013 #43

Yes. nt tblue37 Mar 2013 #44