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moment - where bush can declare that someone else is "lookin' good" or some such. That puts him in the active position as opposed to the passive - the guy on the receiving end. It's an attempt to assert supremacy, and to subtly telecast how David Gregory is the lesser-of-the-two, an inferior, one whose appearance is being graded and judged. And done so publicly - in front of Gregory's peers and on camera for whoever else was watching across America. An attempt to belittle, to demean, to discount, to "put David Gregory in his place." It's what drove him early-on to bestow those cutesy-wootsie little nicknames on everybody, as though he were going around naming his dogs. HE names YOU. Which reads - HE is ABOVE you, as a master is to a slave. He determines what you're called, and he calls you that, and you come to it because you accept the name he gave you as though it were a brand he put on your backside before hauling you off to the rodeo. You are the lesser of the two, you are below and beneath him, subservient, of less value and importance.
Well, not everybody's blind, george. We see through your imperiousness.
David Shuster, I think it was, last night on Olbermann's show - made the point that bush had trouble when he went over to Capitol Hill to armtwist Warner, Graham and McCain - and got nowhere. The commentary about it pointed out that bush has had all this time - more than FIVE YEARS to forge relationships on the Hill - and hasn't bothered.
Unlike Lyndon Johnson, who'd spent a lifetime there before he was president, he knew everybody, knew what made 'em tick, had worked with them and horse-traded with them and done lots of business with them, so he had that wealth of working relationships to help him when he got to the White House. bush doesn't have that.
And the reason? It gets back to that Little Lord Pissypants attitude of his - that he probably DID get from his imperious bitch of a mother. The whole world to this family is divided up into two categories: their friends and allies, and "the help." EVERYBODY ELSE outside the "inner circle" is "the help." Including most of those in the House and the Senate, and yes those three Senators who got manhandled by him and his goons (and happily enough did not give way). Why should he bother, in his own mind, to reach out to anybody? As he even admitted to bob woodward for that damned book woodward wrote - (paraphrasing here) "it's a funny thing about being president. Other people have to explain themselves to me, but I don't have to explain what I'm thinking or doing. They owe ME an explanation, but I don't owe them any explanation." If this were a campaign slogan, it'd be "It's the IMPERIOUSNESS, Stupid."
He thinks he's king, the dictator he expressed the very clear wish to be, at the start of this nightmare five and some LONG MISERABLE years ago. And by hook AND by crook (especially describing him and his friends) he got there, alright. It's the IMPERIOUSNESS that makes him ill-suited for public service, where whether you're the president or the school board member, you are a PUBLIC SERVANT. bush won't EVER understand that. "It's the IMPERIOUSNESS, Stupid." And it motivates and marinates EVERYTHING about him, every waking moment of the day, every day throughout his worthless, spoiled, arrogant, petty, vindictive, sociopathic little life.
It seems to me EVERYTHING this little bastard does is designed to build up and assert his supremacy BY TEARING DOWN anyone and everyone else around him. And that's pretty pitiful, don't you think? That the only way you can feel good about yourself is if you knock everybody else down a few pegs so they're made - OR PERCEIVED AS - less by comparison.
He's pitiful. But I'm fresh out of pity today.
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