Bush: A Study In Failure (Scathing/Well Written Article By Ghanan Author)

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http://allafrica.com/stories/200409230724.html
Ghanaian Chronicle (Accra)

COLUMN
September 23, 2004
Posted to the web September 23, 2004

I. K. Gyasi


When a new history of the United States of America comes to be written, the narrative will show that the biggest disaster that ever happened to that country was President George W. Bush Jnr., and not the calamity of September 11, 2001.

And if George Bush should write his memoirs after being voted out of the White House, he should title the work, "Failure" with the sub-title, "How the Son Never Rose."

George Bush is the clearest example of how, in spite of all the privileges and advantages at one's disposal, one can easily fail to succeed in life.

George Bush will never be in the same league as George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Frank Delano Roosevelt, J. F. Kennedy, Jimmy Carter, Dwight D. Eisenhower and Bill Clinton, for example.

While George W. Bush Snr., (the father) was carving a niche for himself in American society as ambassador, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and later as president of the United States, what was his son doing?

He was leading the life of the typical wastrel: dissipation and total aimlessness in life. In fact, as everyone knows, he had to be rescued from that life and rehabilitated by a group of Wesleyan priests.

One wonders whether the rehabilitation was one hundred percent successful.

snip ever so much material well worth reading

Article ends thusly:

He has succeeded in reducing America to the lowest point or nadir of her history while he himself has sunk lower than a snake's belly.

This is the man who wants another stay in the White House.

[Imalittleteapot]

1. So sad.

So true. Bush, the great uniter has left his dirty prints all over the world. Kerry will bring back sanity and restore the world's respect for our once admired nation.

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2. thanks enjoyed the article but

was puzzled about this odd reference to Bush's cabinet:

"These people, as shown by the Guinness Book of Records, are all billionaires" and "Most of the people around him had made their fortunes in oil, especially Dick Cheney and Condoleesa Rice"... other than that, he made perfect sense to me!