One of my current obsessions, as FWers will know, is that President Bush is but the mouthpiece for Daddy. Two more strands of evidence I came across this morning tend to confirm this view.
In a biography of Bush, "The Right Man" (Random House, 2003), author David Frum (a Canadian right-winger) agrees that the Bush administration doesn't have any of the intellectual sparkle of Clinton's team. Apparently the only person he rates as having any brains at all is Rumsfeld. However, Bush Senior would qualify as having sufficient grey matter to be guiding present policy at week-end briefings on the family ranch. One of Bush Senior's dreams was to send a manned nuclear-powered rocket to Mars. It would be able to travel at three times the current speed of space travel and the journey would take two months. He proposed the idea in 1989, but it was promptly slung out of orbit by Congress as being too costly. According to the Guardian this morning, Bush Junior is expected to announce a similar project in his State of the Union address on 28 January. Keith Hudson ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ Keith Hudson, General Editor, Handlo Music, http://www.handlo.com 6 Upper Camden Place, Bath BA1 5HX, England Tel: +44 1225 312622; Fax: +44 1225 447727; mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
