Did Bush make racist comments to his professor?

[ThatPoetGuy]

(I posted this a little while ago, under a less dramatic name.)

Bush's former professor at Harvard Business School, Yoshihiro Tsurumi, said this about him:

"'Whenever (Bush) just bumped into me, he had some flippant statement to make.... The comments he made were revealing of his prejudice.'"

So this is an Asian-American man, referring to Bush making prejudiced comments. He's talking about racial slurs, right? Tsurumi has been on AAR, I wish someone would ask him for some specifics.

Asian-Americans, to my understanding, don't tend to vote as a "bloc" the way some other ethnic groups do; but if we could confirm that Bush used racial slurs, which I'm sure he would, then it might help turn the tide against him more fully.

So if we can call in and ask Randi Rhodes or someone to find out some specifics from Tsurumi, find out more about the comments that revealed Bush's prejudice, I think that would be great.

http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=503181

[DeepModem Mom]

1. An inappropriate nickname for the professor? nt

[BayouBengal07]

2. oh man

If this is true, it HAS to get out. It could sink Bush.

[ThatPoetGuy]

3. I agree.

Please, people, someone call in to Randi Rhodes. Let's find out about this. It really could sink the bastard.

[snippy]

4. Bush probably just made mushroom cloud jokes.

He would think that was funny.

[jackstraw45]

5. Bush* is The Carlyle Candidate

“He wasn’t bashful about how he was being pushed upward by Dad’s connections.”

Bush is clearly "The Carlyle Candidate"

[jean]

6. there is also a story of Bush using an offensive nickname

Now, of course, I can't even remember where I read it! Possibly in Bush on the Couch...does anyone else remember this?

Bush called a fellow student, who was Native American, by an offensive nickname and the kid told him to stop.

So he stopped using the original nickname (was it 'Chief?') and the next time he saw the kid called him something else equally as offensive, like Tonto.

Sorry for the gossip - don't have documentation on this one.

[jackstraw45]

7. Bump...this story needs to be spread around

To show others outside DU what a man of LOW character Bush* is.

[ThatPoetGuy]

8. Kick. I agree.

But we need someone to ask this professor for more details, darnit!

[ThatPoetGuy]

9. Kick. EOM.

[Dem2theMax]

10. Kicking!

:kick:

[Warren DeMontague]

11. He was probably too busy branding pledges with red-hot coat hangers. n/t

[ThatPoetGuy]

12. We all know what a sleazebag lazy bullying loser he is...

but I saw "Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle" the other day, and I realized that there are millions of Asian-American voters. And I remembered wondering about this little snippet.

I could be totally wrong. But if the professor confirms what I think Bush said, and it gets out, then Bush will lose a lot of Asian-American votes.

So basically we need to get some interviewer to ask Tsurumi to elaborate on that line about Bush's "prejudice."

[Warren DeMontague]

13. Hey, man, I'm right there with ya.

Unfortunately, the media has been covering for the guy for way too long. He could run around all day vomiting on important Japanese people (it runs in his family, after all) and these guys would never show the footage.

[Democat]

14. Do you think Bush's base would care if he did?

Listen to talk radio. Bush's core supporters don't seem to have a problem with racism as long as you use aren't too obvious about it.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

15. When I've read about this guy's comments before, the impression I

had was that by "prejudice" he was talking more about prejudices like "poor people are lazy, that's why they're poor" kind of thing.

[jackstraw45]

16. Still, makes for a STRONG contrast to John Kerry at the time

Bush is a man of LOW character.

Many of his supporters view him as a man of HIGH character.

Simply ama-f-ing-zing.