As you know if you have read much of what I've posted over the last 12 years, I hated George Bush. But lately something very interesting has happened. I'm writing a novel that is loosely based on the events of 9/11. When I started writing it, the character of the President was truly evil. But as the book developed, I decided to rewrite the character as tragically flawed instead of evil. In order to do so and make the character believable, I had to revisit my opinion of Bush. I read his autobiography, a number of his speeches, and several books by members of his administration. My opinion of him has somewhat moderated. I still dislike a lot of the actions he took, but I am convinced that the real evil lay with his handlers and not with him, and his flaw was that he was not strong enough to stand up to them once he realized he was being manipulated. It was quite a revelation.
Cheney, on the other hand, is still the Dark Lord. No amount of revisiting history can wash the evil from him. On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 9:09 PM, Jerry Milo Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > > It really makes me respect the man and the office more (including > respect for the job that George Bush did under some pretty trying > conditions) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:337351 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
