Still hard to believe Bombastic Bush-kin is prez.................."And what did he learn from his father, George Herbert Walker Bush, who in the span of 20 months went from the pinnacle of popularity to a humbling defeat in the 1992 election?
Mr. Bush's square one is the knowledge he seeks a job he has not always wanted. He has some of President Clinton's ability to connect, eye-level, to people on the campaign trail. But he has not had the lifetime ambition.
Childhood and young-adult acquaintances of Mr. Bush have said this is not where they thought the guy they nicknamed "Bombastic Bush-kin" would end up.
Mr. Bush's personal history is spotty: The self-admitted party days of youth, tempered in midlife with a renewed Christian faith and a decision to quit drinking. Middling grades at Yale and Harvard, where he got undergraduate and graduate degrees.".........Yet when Mr. Bush received his Yale diploma in 1968, he had third-rate grades, second-rate accomplishments and no firm career prospects. There was, however, one area where he had excelled: he had a huge number of very close friends, and long after course grades were forgotten, those friends would still stand by him, reach into their pockets for him and help propel him into politics. |
