"HE TRULY ENJOYS GETTING PEOPLE TO KNUCKLE UNDER"....

[kpete]

"HE TRULY ENJOYS GETTING PEOPLE TO KNUCKLE UNDER"....I'm reading Ron Suskind's The One Percent Doctrine right now, and it's been an odd experience. ................

More on that later, though. For now, here's one of those anecdotes instead. It's set at Harvard Business School in 1975, where Bush was captain of his class's basketball team. His team is playing the Class of '76 team:

The game was tight. The other team's captain, Gary Engle...went up for a shot. Bush slugged him — an elbow to the mouth, knocking him to the parquet.

....Moments later, at the other end of the court, Engle went up high for a rebound and felt someone chop his legs out from under him. Bush again. Engle jumped up and threw the ball in Bush's face. The two went at it until two teams of future business leaders leapt on their captains, pulling them apart. Engle, angry and vexed by what had happened, began wondering why the hell Bush would have done what he did. He lost his composure, and his team lost its leader.

A few years later, Engle...bumped into Jeb Bush....Engle, a Republican contributor, had thought from time to time about his game against George. Nothing like that had happened to him before or since. This was his chance to get a little insight about it. He told the story. Jeb kind of laughed, Engle recalled. "In Texas, they call guys like George 'a hard case.' It wasn't easy being his brother, either. He truly enjoys getting people to knuckle under."

This, apparently, is the real Bush Doctrine: America's goal is to get the rest of the world to knuckle under to us, one dimwitted action at a time. Suskind calls it Bush's "global experiment in behaviorism." Doesn't seem to be working too well so far, though, does it?

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2006_06/009095.php

[Doctor_J]

1. Yes, he is a bully

and if Engle had cold-cocked the coward history might have been saved the rest of his disastrous life.

[Vidar]

17. Nice to dream anyway.

[panader0]

2. "Global experiment in behaviorism"?

That sounds Nazi-ating.

[xchrom]

10. The Nazi-ater is Nazi-ating.

[niyad]

3. I thought * was a CHEERLEADER, NOT an athlete? sadly, though,

the story seems very indicative of the personality he consistently displays.

[TheCentepedeShoes]

14. Sounds like

"frat sports" not actually being on a Yale intercollegiate team.

[MissWaverly]

4. everyone needs to see this

here's is someone physically beating up on an opponent to win a "game"

Does anybody here think, he would not cheat doing an election?

[The_Casual_Observer]

5. jr is a sociopath. The mess we are in is because of him.

[Fridays Child]

9. Yes, he has a severe psychiatric disorder.

I don't think that's even open to dispute.

[leftchick]

18. a sociopath with

his finger near the button. :scared:

[tnlefty]

6. I played basketball, and cutting someone's legs out from under him/her

was the lowest of the low gdamned things that a player could do. It was always considered a cheap shot because someone can REALLY get hurt - it just wasn't done. This in and of itself explains even more to me about just how much of an asshole Dimson** truly is.

And no, it won't work because if someone is able that someone will get up with a vengeance and in an effort to clean your clock but good.

[AndyTiedye]

7. This Photo Was In His Yearbook at Yale

[Fridays Child]

8. No way to sugarcoat it: he's a bully who grew up to be a tyrant.

That he sits in the White House is just surreal.

[SalmonChantedEvening]

11. With no respect whatsoever

Fuck you mister Pretendisent.

May you never know joy. love or happiness.

[LostInAnomie]

12. Engle should have gouged his shifty eyes out.

Then beat the cowardly shit out of his ass.

[blm]

13. Anyone think he'd be able to pull it off without his Daddy and Texas Mafia

providing backup?

[Jade Fox]

15. So, Bush will cheat rather than lose.....

Isn't that surprising. :sarcasm:

[Rageneau]

16. Captain of the basketball team? Did Diebold count the votes?

The man just doesn't seem to me to have ever had any leadership or inspirational qualities. Is he that good an athlete?