This is how Duhbya's former HBS professor remembers him!

[grytpype]

At Harvard Business School, thirty years ago, George Bush was a student of mine. I still vividly remember him. In my class, he declared that "people are poor because they are lazy." He was opposed to labor unions, social security, environmental protection, Medicare, and public schools. To him, the antitrust watch dog, the Federal Trade Commission, and the Securities Exchange Commission were unnecessary hindrances to "free market competition." To him, Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal was "socialism." Recently, President Bush's Federal Appeals Court Nominee, California's Supreme Court Justice Janice Brown, repeated the same broadside at her Senate hearing. She knew that her pronouncement would please President Bush and Karl Rove and their Senators. President Bush and his brain, Karl Rove, are leading a radical revolution of destroying all the democratic political, social, judiciary, and economic institutions that both Democrats and moderate Republicans had built together since Roosevelt's New Deal.

http://www.glocom.org/opinions/essays/20040301_tsurumi_president/

[burrowowl]

1. A prof remembers Bu$h

and none of his Alabama NG cohorts can?

[Doctor_J]

2. A little hard to believe

that Smirk was coherent enough to have opinions like these. IOW, if youi asked him to explain what "socialism" is, he would sweat, stutter, call you an asshole, and then talk about how rough Viet Nam was for him.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

9. Few, if any, of the people

who call the New Deal "socialism" can explain what socialism is--or even what the New Deal was.

[orwell]

3. Young Frankenstein

Well I guess that just about says it all about Young Frankenstein.

I wonder how much airplay this will get...

Never mind...

Aren't those new Bush ads great. He looks like he really cares. :puke:

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[Fight_n_back]

4. Why hasn't this guy

been on Larry King or Chris Matthews?

No, that wasn't a rhetorical question.

[SharonAnn]

5. If laziness caused poverty, he'd be really, really poor!

What a lazy, ungrateful, stupid, arrogant ------!

[Daisey Mae]

6. NO FLIP FLOPS HERE

IT IS GOOD TO SEE BUSH HASN'T RE-THUNK A THING AND REMAINS THE SAME HATEFUL BAG OF ARROGANT POOP THAT HE WAS 30 YEARS AGO..... GOOD GOING DOPEY!!! THE WORST IS HE IS PROUD OF IT......

[Jade Fox]

7. "people are poor because they are lazy"

rich, coming from someone who is clearly a very lazy person himself. How
much time does he spend on his ranch "clearing brush"? (there must not
be a single brush left in the entire state of TX).

Hope this article gets around....

[fizzana]

8. "people are poor because they are lazy"

This from an asshole who never had to work hard in his life. What an arrogant, ignorant little fuck

[atre]

17. ... and from the record-setter for days spent on vacation by a President.

How shocking.

[seabeyond]

10. all those nascar dads

and bubba dudes i know so well here. how would they like to hear from bush's mouth that the reason why they are poor, and having a tough time getting those 120. dollar shoes for their kids and braces and health insurance,...........is cause they are lazy. working how many hours a day hoping they can keep their job adn the business isnt going to go under

[peacetalksforall]

11. Please don't shoot me, this question probably exposes my ignorance...

but arent't most of the positions the proffessor lays out about Resident Deficit a parallel to Libertarian thinking?

[DBoon]

15. Not quite

Most libertarians would agree with the positions but would not so openly voice the hatred and snobbery towards working people that Shrub does.

Some libertarians actually do believe in eliminating government welfare programs as a movement towards freedom for all. I don't agree, but to the extent they are sincere, well the motivation ain't so bad.

A good libertarian will also think these things through and try to articulate some logical reasoning behind their beliefs.

Basically, the end result may be the same, but Shrub is a much bigger jerk than most libertarians I have run into.

[rudeboy666]

12. cliched Old Right slogans

....basic anti-FDR slogans from the Old Right(which included both conservative and paleo-libertarian segments).

I wonder if Bush also preached the anti-war/isolationist slogans of the Old Right. This would definitely be ironic.

[kodi]

13. bush is a typical spoiled rich kid who never got his ass kicked

arrogant, condescending without compassion or any experience with the vicissitudes of life that brings a sense of humility to adults as they mature.

[mike1963]

14. Wow, "vicissitudes"! I haven't seen that in print for ...a long time!

:D

I love cunning linguists.

[Lastgasp]

16. Bush 101

If you are poor you should blame yourself, and for everything else blame Clinton.