Lee wrote:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > The man is very intelligent, regardless of whether you like him or not.
> > And it is nice to write him off as being owned by big business if it suites
> > your case... especially if you don't know much about business. There's no
> > way to convince you otherwise so I won't bother, except to say this: Do
> > you not think that a man of his position, as a businessman, that he is
> > accutely in tune to the needs of business? Of course he has interest in
> > business. He is a business-owner. Beyond that, our paychecks are almost
> > all signed by businesses. It makes sense to keep them rolling. What proof
> > do you have that he is "owned" by big-business?
>
> >Snip
>
> I think you have George Walker Bush jr. confused with someone else. Jr.
> grew up with his feet under daddy's dinner table. He got into Stanford
> because daddy was a rich important man not because of his grades. He
> graduated with a C average only because daddy was the director of the
> CIA. To keep himself out of the war in Nam he joined the Texas Air
> National Guard. This is the same draft dodging president who now
> proposes to send thousand of US troops to die in Iraq to avenge his
> daddy's honor.
>
> As for his businessman's success, he was a failure at everything he did
> until some of Bush Sr.'s cronies took him into a scheme to buy a major
> league ball team. Using daddy's reputation and influence and the
> partner's money he got the City of San Antonio.s government to float a
> $300 million bond issue to build a ballpark that the investors reaped
> the rewards from. The taxpayers of that city are still paying off that
> bond. So much for the Republican idea of privatization and keeping
> government's hand out of the people's pocket. After all, there isn't
> room in there for both government and his influential friends' hands.
>
> The next chapter in the life of George the Brilliant was to use daddy's
> influence and his friends money to buy the governor ship of Texas at a
> time when the biggest problem facing state governments was how to spend
> the enormous revenues that were rolling into the state coffers. He did
> have two major accomplishments though. He set a record for the number of
> death warrants signed (no doubt due to his good Christian upbringing)
> and he managed to get legislation passed that shielded a friend of his
> who was underfire for the handling of funds in the University of Texas
> endowment fund. Jr. and his partners later sold the ball team to this
> same gentleman. Jr's share based on his original $600,000 investment
> should have been $1.2 million, instead, he walked away with over 14
> million. Either the partners liked the way Jr. parted his hair or he
> pimped the office of governor and president to them for $12 million. He
> also pimped the presidency to the likes of Enron and M$. But, I guess
> you're right. You have to be some sort brilliant to sell you honor for
> that kind of dough. Too many people sell it for just a paycheck.
>
> Lee
>
Matt, you need to read a paperback by Mollie Ivins, "Shrub". You might
not think as highly of the book as Lonnie, Lee, and I do. It must be
somewhat truthfull as there have been no suits?
Bob
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