Is Bush Jr, an inept fool, a corporate pawn or a brilliant strategist?

Answer 1

Puppet
of greater greedier and godless minds.

Cheney runs the show......
documentary on Cheneys influence and power
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/darkside/view/

Answer 2

I'll agree with the strategist on one point, but America is starting to doubt him. In the end, he will turn into a corporate pawn because how did he get in office? The big companies control the electorial votes so if he didn't do some of what they want he would've only served one term, but I'll have to admit atleast he is still trying even though after this he's out of the White House.

Answer 3

Inept fool, corporate pawn and a brilliant personal strategist. Everything he does benefits him, his friends or his family. Unfortunately not the country.

Answer 4

Doesn't fall into any category.

However, let me say this much...

If Bush were at a book signing ceremony nearby, I wouldn't bother standing on line for an autograph even though I know I could get two bucks for it on ebay. (He will be writing soon, very soon, just two more ...yawn...years now)

If either Clinton were to come around to sign, I'd stand on line all day.


Now, why do I feel that way?

Because I prefer Democrats over Republicans?

NOOOOO!

It's because Clinton saw one end of the Presidency that matters most to me...getting the huge budget under control.

Bush saw the other end, being Commander in Chief.

So, next time you go to click that button, remember this much, what matters more to YOU, a blanced budget or a lunatic trying to stick his nose where it don't belong?

Sorry, sorry...oooh I forgot...a nice grinning man with a big Texas hat.

Better?

Answer 5

Bush's greatest secret weapon is that people really do think he's dumb; he's not.

First you have to look at the people he surrounded himself with. He was smart enough to surround himself with smart, experienced, successful people in a cross section of fields, not poet leauriates as defence ministers.

He hires people who truly do have dissenting opinions, which means he's getting a good bit of diverse advice, and not just a bunch of yes men who agree with everything he says.

You also have to remember that he and the administration know things that we will never know. I got a chance to "know" some things when I lived in the Middle East and was there for five years. The things that go on that we never hear about would shock you.

Take Iraq for a second. In 1994, Clinton and the other G8 countires gave Billions of dollars of aid to Yassir Arafat in order to build a viable infrastructure for the Palestinian people. An infrastructure provides jobs, that provides income, that makes for generally happy people who are not so willing to strap on suicide vests because they have nothing better to look forward to.

Instead of building a viable infrastructure, roads, schools, businesses, etc., Arafat built an arsenal; guns, LAWs rockets, etc. No jobs for the people, no industry, no good thing to look forward to. More violence.

This is not something new and unique to the Palestinians; this is the recurrent history of many developing countries.

To his credit, Bush looks at past history, and instead of giving a blank check to the rising powers in Iraq, he decides -- WISELY -- to contract this work out to ensure the infrastructure is built. It is being built. The government, local, and federal, is being built. Industry is being developed. It is slow going, but it is happening. And more and more Iraqis are living that dream of actually being able to have a country that isn't being raped by a madman. A country is being made that can stand on its own.

The problem still remains, as it does everywhere, that there are a handful of people -- and compartively, it IS only a handful of people -- who would rather subjugate the weak and retain power for the strong. The insurgents benefit from it; they get to remain in some form of power.

Bush has made mistakes, just like Clinton, Bush Senior, Reagan, etc., and so will the next guy. The key is, Iraq is not the quagmire that everyone would have you believe, and our money is not being spent on an arsenal that will later be used against us so that more of us Americans can sit back and say yet again, "When will we ever learn?"

Not just my opinion. Was there. Saw.

Answer 6

None of the above. He certainly is not inept (although occasionally I consider him a fool), he is certainly not a corporate pawn, and although I consider his strategy basically sound, I would not use the term "brilliant".

Answer 7

He is an inept fool and a corporate pawn. The strategy is all done for him by Karl Rove and Dick Cheney.

Answer 8

Rule our brilliant strategist. His life prior to the presidency was a remarkably undistinguished series of minor screw ups and failed opportunities.

Rule out inept fool, as well. He recognizes talent (well, a better term might be 'evil genius') and has the personal humility to follow the advices of his intellectual superiors.

I think 'corporate pawn' is both demeaning and misleading, because his familial credentials are top drawer ruling class. The Bush clan and the their allies are hardly what you would call small fry.

Isn't it obvious that he is neither more nor less than what is right there in the public record? His only reasonably above average intelligence is compensated by stubborn determination and utter loyalty to his team. HIS team, of course, just doesn't happen to be OUR team. His team is the topmost layer of the upper crust.

He is observably disassociated by birth, training and experience from the devastating effects that unbridled corporate greed is having upon the 99.9 % of the globe not born to his level of Imperial American privilege. Oblivious to the fact that as Emperor his whims can result in grisly death for persons he has never met nor even realized existed.

I cannot bring myself to believe that he intends to have that effect, but that makes little difference to the dead, does it?

As a direct consequence of George Bush's unilaterally invoked actions people are dying in ever increasing numbers. It started with thousands in Afghanistan, then tens of thousands in Iraq (by some counts ten times ten), and with the events of the last few days in Gaza and Lebanon it could easily escalate into hundreds of thousands within months.

One more slip, one more brutal application of disproportionate force, such as against Syria or Iran, and our boy George could easily join the likes of Hitler and Mao in that most exclusive of all clubs : leaders responsible for killing millions of human beings, a sort of Millionaire Mark of Mega Murderers.

The part that just stuns me is that his accomplices in this mayhem are the average christian family working stiffs of middle America. We can thank Karl Rove for that one.
He's as tuned-in street smart as an alley rat, and obviously his scripts are working because the blue collars of America are still suicidally loyal to the blue bloods that are selling them out and killing them off faster than anyone since Wilson let Rockfeller negotiate a labor contract with machine guns in 1914.

He's actually got them convinced that is is just fine with Jesus for ten thousand Innocent women and children to die unlisted under our bombs and receive no other epitaph than "Collateral Damage."

So, is Bush Jr. an inept fool, corporate pawn or brilliant strategist?

I don't think so, but his political 'base' is all of those rolled together.

As for George himself he just is who he is, man. Nothing special, just wildly out of control.

Answer 9

None of the above. He is just a comedy! He is like a clown in a circus! After all, he was a cheer leader once!
By the way, are you referring to President Bush or Governor Bush?

Answer 10

He Will go Down as One of the Best Presidents in History. You Watch

Answer 11

NO on the first two and yes, he is a brilliant strategist. Think about it!!!!