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Wednesday, January 05, 2005

OK, George, name one
Posted by Jill | 11:52 AM
article, USA Today (emphasis mine):

The son of Mexican immigrants with little formal education, Gonzales had ascended from a childhood home in Houston with no hot water or telephone to the Air Force, Rice University and Harvard Law School. Gonzales' against-all-expectations success impressed Bush.

Bush “likes somebody he sees as having overcome potential disadvantages, because he sees himself as having done that,” says Paul Burka, executive editor of Texas Monthly magazine and a close follower of the president.


Gonzales is scum, but I'll give him his rags to riches story. Bush, however, is simply showing the world how delusional he is. Here's a guy, born to a wealthy and influential family (his grandfather, Prescott Bush, was an international banker, after all, even if he did do business with some unsavory characters such as that German guy named Adolf), who went to the best schools on legacy admissions, lost millions of dollars of his father's friends' money in his many failed business endeavors, and says he's overcome "potential disadvantages"? Like what, George? Being a drunk, cokehead, cocksman wastrel? That's hardly the same.

Gawd. How out of touch can these people get?

I'm gonna go bang my head against the wall a few times now.
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