A very scary thought: Perhaps he's doing the best job he can??

[kentuck]

Perhaps he's operating at the maximum of his capabilities? Perhaps he doesn't have the intelligence to understand complex and difficult foreign policy issues? Perhaps he thinks in very simple black and white terms : good guys vs bad guys? Perhaps he cannot do anything other than what he is doing? Perhaps he really doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground? But, he did ask for the job, right?

[YDogg]

1. I've thought that for quite some time.

I think bush is play acting in the fine tradition of reagan. At least reagan knew how to act, and was intelligent enough to bluff his way through shit. bush has never mastered anything, except perhaps glad-handing and being the son of someone accomplished, and his lack of depth has been dramatically exposed.

[Philosoraptor]

2. He's doing the LEAST job he can.

No, I don't think he really even wanted the job, especially when he discovered he'd actually be required to do something.

I think he'd like to leave the job, and just get the glory and his mug on calendars.

[livetohike]

4. Too bad we can't nominate replies for greatest page because

this is the best analysis of Dubya I have seen in the 2.5 years I have been on DU.

:toast: for succinctness

[rock]

8. True. And this the best he can do!

Perverse isn't it?

[rfranklin]

3. He is doing very well for his patrons...

Just look at Halliburton, Exxon, Wall Streetand the ultra-wealthy. Profits are up, taxes are virtually non-existent. What more could they ask for?

Perhaps the reinstitution of slavery, but that's about it.

[rman]

5. ...to benefit himself and his cronies -

no question about that.
Good guys vs bad guys is simply a means to appeal to people's fears and prejudices.
Besides, you don't really think that Bush is the one to take all the decisions on foreign policy etc? It doesn't really matter whether or not he personally understands those issues.

[lectrobyte]

6. Then why invade Iraq? Sorry, I can't write that one off to general

incompetence. I think this good-old-boy-can't-pour-piss-out-of-a-boot-with-instructions-on-the-heel act, is just that, an act.

[INdemo]

7. Did he ask for the job?

I think the corporations viewed him as their puppet,adding Dick Cheney was no accident..The money poured in and they placed a puppet in the White House to follow their plan drawn up by corporate CEO's, the Oil Company execs and drug companies. Cheney was appointed the master,the one in charge to see to it hat their plan was executed..When * got out of line and tried to actually perform real Presidential duties on his own,Cheney was there to remind him who was in charge. * just dont have the intellect to be President and now this corporate plan has backfired..

[gulliver]

9. He is. He's just a bad leader.

He is a bad strategist and a bad judge of talent. He doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground, but that's OK. He just decides that the best presidents don't need to know their ass from a hole in the ground.

People who don't know their asses from holes in the ground are a movement, and Bush is their mascot.

[IChing]

10. Condi Lice was given neo-con handlers when she went to Italy

for middle east talks. The chimp is not the power behind the throne.