Bush's handed out fake Texas Rangers Baseball Cards with HIS face

[spooked]

According to BUSH ON THE COUCH, p. 153

"George W.'s eventual role as front man for the partnership that purchased the Texas Rangers offered the chance to enjoy the appearance of a more legitimate victory over his dad's baseball record (even if his father's recent election to the presidency likely helped make the deal possible).

But even that victory had an edge: the younger Bush, who could never be the baseball star his father was, ordered up fake baseball cards with his name and picture that he would pass out at Rangers games. Such a blatant illustration of oedipal competition is perhaps even more touching when one learns what regularly happened to the simulated souvenirs of Bush's would-be baseball heroism: according to Minutaglio (Biographer, FIRST SON), the floor of the stadium men's room was "littered with Bush baseball cards" on the nights he passed them out. The image of our current president's picture on dozens of fake baseball cards--being stepped upon on a wet public bathroom floor presages the artiface of Bush's "Mission Accomplished"
banner more than a decade later.

Through the chicaneryof the banner's claim (and the denials of responsibility for it) is arguably no less hostile, the scorn inherent in the pantomime of his father's was heroism is now delivered without a sense of humor. As events have subsequently made clear, Bush's aircraft carrier stunt had the making of a fraud perpetrated on the entire U.S. Military--indeed, on the general public, if not the citizenry of the war-torn world."


According to John Dean, in Worst than Watergate:

Bush* "did nothing to dispel the illusion that he had piloted the plane to the deck" In truth, Bush* was "a passenger in a pilot's costume."


Bush* MOCKS REAL baseball stars and heroes, Bush* MOCKS REAL Vietnam Heroes, and Bush* MOCKS REAL Fighter Pilots.

I wonder if he'll be handing out his "President Card" when he's gone. Wonder what kind of "stats" he'll include on the back...