George W. Bush shamelessly boasts that he doesn’t read. Of newspapers he said: “I glance at the headlines just to kind of [get] a flavor of what’s moving. I rarely read the stories. … [I] get briefed by people who probably read the news themselves … people on my staff who tell me what’s happening in the world.” Apparently, he also… return to article
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Reader Comments (1)Page 1 of 1 pagesIt must have been the most dismal day in Bush the Younger’s life when daddy and cronies pried that Jim Beam from his fingers, put Big Billy Graham in his face and words in his mouth to launch the worst political career since Adolph (hmmm weren’t some of the backers the same for both?). Sad thing is I think the Boy Blunder may have tried to resist until that shadowy pretzel kicked the shit out of him one cold January day, that and the medications that have him lolling at high times across the podium, drooling out delusions to followers. Bush has shamelessly become a cult figure while Dick and daddy tend business.
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