Be Creative: What Was bu$h Like As A Kid?

[Dinger]

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

1. A biter and bed wetter into adolescence.

[azmouse]

2. I picture him pulling the wings off of butterflies.

Just a mean, nasty no-good little bastard whose mommy thought he was just wonderful... mean, miserable bitch that she is, she wouldn't know any better and probably taught little Georgie everything he knows.

[warrens]

3. A snitch

Not brave enough to bully, he was the kid who ratted out everyone else and felt morally superior about it. And a cheater. He bought off poorer kids to feed him the answers and write his book reports on books he was too lazy and ignorant to read himself.

[Swamp Rat]

4. ALL OF THE ABOVE!!!

[librechik]

5. he used to use bb guns on the other kids IN THE HOUSE

while they were wearing pajamas.

And he always won. They were terrified of him.

He later became "Poppy's Enforcer," the guy that went around to twist arms after a disppointing vote.

[Jim Warren]

6. Well, he was a cheerleader, of course, silly!

[A-Schwarzenegger]

7. Failed Fingerpainter.

[barb162]

8. born with a silver spoon in that stupid mouth

[CrushTheDLC]

12. I thought it was up his nose?

Oh, wait.... that was later.

[C_U_L8R]

9. Relentlessly Wedgied

by his prep school upperclassmen.

Relentlessly wedgied.

[Kutjara]

10. Whenever I think of Bush, I get an image of...

...Frank Burns, the weasely Major played brilliantly by Larry Linville in MASH. That's Bush's character to a tee.

[saltpoint]

11. By all counts he seems to be devoid of compassion for other people

especially those less privileged;

devoid of compassion for people who are different from his own chosen circle of aristocrats and who have been shaped by far different circumstances, including a real education;

orphaned from History and wandering about the world pretending to be important Now without any awareness of and respect for the Past; and

he appears to be soulless. His thinking seems to be what Joan Didion called "a cutting room experience" instead of a narrative or trajectory. He's a mess.

So I'm guessing as a kid he was not much different than he is now. Prankster. Ornery bad-boy. Cruel to animals. Playing to the cheap-seat emotion. Aware that Daddy thought he was a callous nobody and acted out to compensate. One of those men who are like Paul Newman's HUD character -- someone "who just doesn't give a damn."

[Straight Shooter]

13. A bullying megalomaniac with a major inferiority complex.

Little Boots has always known, deep down, he's dogsh*t diarrhea.

[JohnnyLib]

14. I'm thinking about age 8, parent gets called in for misbehavior and

Georgie says, "yes ma'am" a lot, then stands slightly behind Mom and flips off the teacher. And practices that damn smirk.

[rug]

15. Pensive.

[ThatsMyBarack]

16. All of the above....

....and then some! :nuke:

[mcscajun]

17. OTHER: A mixture of much of the above. Profile follows.

Bush was a mama's boy who got into lots of mischief from an early age, but could never do any wrong as far as Mama was concerned. Dad was onto him from his crawling days, but he couldn't whup the boy like he wanted, or Mama would turn on Dad.

He got into trouble at school, and yes, Mama always got him off. He got bullied and beat up a lot, and Mama would go over to the other children's' homes and yell at their parents and make threats. As he got older, he was quiet and weird and creeped everybody out, but they were also afraid of his Mama. He tortured and killed small animals for fun. As he got even older, he became a mean-spirited, back-biting bully himself, but never had the guts to get physical. His teachers suggested psychological evaluation every so often, but mama wouldn't hear of it.

In his later years in high school and college, he couldn't get many repeat dates (in spite of his money and family connections) because his dates described him as "a weird little pervert" with certain, um, "inadequacies".

[Raine]

18. Weird, creepy little pervert

I have no doubt about it. :evilfrown:

[Joey Liberal]

19. He was a stoned, spolied rotten pervert n/t

[focusfan]

20. somebody should have put him in his place

and beat the hell out of him maybe then he wouldn't want to be
such a bully

[newyawker99]

24. Hi focusfan!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[napi21]

21. I see him as a Dennis the Menace without a concience!

A kid that always got into trouble, and mostly instigated it himself, but always got out of it via Mommy's connections, so he never learned right from wrong. Most likely blamed it one anyone else, but NEVER HIM!

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

22. He put on neighborhood shows like Mickey Rooney & Judy Garland

only George wanted to play the Judy Garland roles. Here is a photo of Bush as a teenager, wearing a dress and doing a skit, a photo that appeared in the New York Times in 2000:





http://partners.nytimes.com/library/politics/camp/061000wh-bush.html

[KamaAina]

23. He stuck M-80s up frogs' butts and set them off.

No, really. He did. As Margaret Mead said, "One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and get away with it."

Indeed. See what a monster he has become.