Conservatism, greed and the president.

[WileEcoyote]

To understand Conservatism you basically have to realize that it's proponents are either:

1. Greedy.

2. Unhinged.

3. Or some combination of the above. Hint: For the majority it's Number 3.

To understand the greed and insanity of our own appointed (not elected) president all you have to do is read a segment of journalist Robert Draper's new book "Dead Certain". It's a collection of interviews with the idiot in chief.

But before you read the following segment pre published in the Washington Post note these facts:

George W. Bush has failed at every enterprise he's ever worked on or invested in.

Whether it was his oil ventures given to him by rich Saudis through the presidency he's failed clear across the board.

OK so now since he's considering his not soon enough exit from the political stage in 2009, what is his number one interest AFTER leaving office?

Could it be "Habitat For Humanity" as does the superlative former pPresident Jimmy Carter?

Hardly. No for George W. Bush his main goal will simply be to make money:



Bush considered whether to cooperate with the book for several months, Draper reports. The two men met for the first time on Dec. 12, 2006, and at the conclusion, the president agreed to another interview. In one of the interviews, he looked ahead to his post-presidency, talking of his plans to build an institute focused on freedom and to "replenish the ol' coffers" by giving paid speeches. From: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/02/AR2007090201422_2.html?hpid=topnews



In short Bush wants to go back to "making a lot of money". Wonder which company he'll fuck up in the process? Now that's a given...

You know when i was a small child growing up our good teachers had us think about what we wanted to be when we were all grown. Besides the obvious choice of Astronaut or Fireman there seemed to me to be a consensus that we kids were gonna do something to make the world a better place.

Not necessarily to make a lot of money. Not as a specific goal by itself.

Just to contribute something was what we wanted. We'd witnessed in our early years the tragic loss of a GOOD President who invented the Peace Corps. The concept of good people doing good things without making tons of money nor certainly NOT at someone else's expense was the main thought pattern of not only myself but a lot of my peers.

And what kind of a president did we get?: A foolhardy shit fer brains Frat Bully who has never had to work a real job in his life.

[Cassandra]

1. I want to know...

what exactly has depleted the "ol' coffers"?

[WileEcoyote]

2. Because he's such a bad businessman,

that he doesn't even know how to accept bribes and favors while running his own family budget Cassandra.

I mean objectively thinking: If he wants to make money off his oil and arms bud's through being the president shouldn't he have done it by now?

Now granted that is the wrong reason for running for prez. We all know that. However simply going on the assumption of money making as a prime mover (which apparently it is for Cheney, Rove, and the whole friggin corporate sponsors of the GOP?

Well it stands to reason that the president may be running close to what he'd define as "broke".

And this is what perplexes me. Because I'm drawing the conclusion that the president really meant what he said and that he'd like to go on the speaking circuit to sell himself. And if this is one of the few true statements (which it probably is) Bush has ever said?

Well it means that he not only fucked up the country for profit but sold even himself short in the process.

We could have even used Michael Corleone. Wicked but a least a responsible manager of finances. Instead we got Fredo...