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Bush and the Elites

Steven L. Taylor
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Via Fox’s Election HQ blog comes the following quip from President George W. Bush:

“I have written a book. This will come as a shock to some of the elites. They didn’t think I could read a book, much less write one,” Bush quipped.

First, not a bad line given the grief Bush received over his intellectual prowess.

Second, this hits a pet peeve of mine:  i.e., people who are clearly elites talking about “elites” as if they don’t belong to said group.  There is little more elite in the history of mankind than being President of the United States of America.  Doubly so if one’s father was also President (with substantial bonus elite points for having a grandfather who was a Senator).

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5 responses to “Bush and the Elites”

  1. Herb Avatar
    Herb

    Ah, you’re being too hard on the guy. I’m sure he was shocked too.

  2. daveinboca Avatar
    daveinboca

    I myself think GWB overspent by a trillion and didn’t defend himself at all from the vicious attacks from the looney-tune leftoid psychopaths. So I rank him as mediocre, even though I supported, as an Arabist, his overthrow of the world’s worst dictator since Mao died and Pol Pot was overthrown—leaving the Hermit Kingdom and El Castrato’s Cuba out of the running.

    But GWB used to read a book a week while retiring at 9PM, mainly historical biographies on American history, and John Lewis Gaddis, dean of American historians and GWB’s mentor, often received a book report on each one, giving these to his students who were speechless when he finally told them who was reading them and writing the reports. And GWB not once lifted a finger to defend himself when called an illiterate buffoon by, well, illiterate buffoons like Bill Maher and the blubber boy Michael Moore.

    Obama is now whining and he’s having the Feds look into the Koch Industries tax situation. If the Repubs take the House, I hope Boehner has the stones to get committees started to investigate this POTUS’s abuse of the IRS and other agencies for political ends. GWB has more class in his little finger than Obama does in his entire fake persona.

  3. Brummagem Joe Avatar
    Brummagem Joe

    “(with substantial bonus elite points for having a grandfather who was a Senator).”

    Even more bonus points for Phillips Andover, Yale, Harvard (and then a super bonus for being a Bonesman).

  4. Brummagem Joe Avatar
    Brummagem Joe

    “GWB has more class in his little finger than Obama does in his entire fake persona.”

    At least three generations.

  5. tom p Avatar
    tom p

    Steve, you forgot a brother who was a governer.

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