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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: dave rose who wrote (14766)	3/10/2000 11:50:00 AM
From: DMaA	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769667

I think his remark to Maria Schriever was the appropriate way to react to an air headed, hairdo obsessed, lightweight bimo question like "Senator, how do you feel?". Boy, she really had to dig deep for that one I bet.

To: dave rose who wrote (14766)	3/10/2000 12:42:00 PM
From: Alexandermf	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

It seems a crime to me that to run for political office in this Nation places so much stress on the Candidates, at this point I do not believe we have a clue as to the Intellectual Level or the normal temperament of any of them. I would hate to have to emotionally endure what these Candidates have been put through. It makes me question the Mentality of a Nation that requires this "Torturous Campaigning Tactics" What the hell do we expect of them when one "Poor Persona" gets into office. Will we bash the next President as we have Clinton?? I am concerned just how effective we will allow our President to be in office when he displeases us??????

To: dave rose who wrote (14766)	3/10/2000 12:47:00 PM
From: Brian P.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

<<Can anyone explain to me how a person can become a qualified fighter pilot in the National Guard and be considered dumb?>> nybooks.com <<Bush was a mediocre freshman in high school and yet won admission to Phillips Academy, Andover, one of the country's most exclusive preparatory schools, because his father had gone there before him. He was a mediocre student at Andover, and yet won admission to his father's alma mater, Yale, again as a "legacy." He was a mediocre student at Yale and yet won admission to the Harvard Business School. When he decided to fulfill his military obligation during the Vietnam War by entering the Texas Air National Guard, he was promptly accepted and granted a lieutenant's commission after a mere five weeks of basic training. >> <<Elizabeth Mitchell, whose book seems the most illuminating of the four under review, gives the fullest account of Bush's acceptance into the National Guard, at a time when, according to some of its veterans, there was a long waiting list. By the time Bush graduated from Yale in 1968, his father was a congressman from Texas. A longtime family friend, Sidney Adger, called Ben Barnes, then the Democratic lieutenant governor of Texas. In a 1999 deposition Barnes testified that Adger asked him to intercede for young Bush. Barnes duly called the head of the guard, Brigadier General James M. Rose. Bush and his father have seized upon this testimony as evidence that the elder Bush himself never interceded to get his son a coveted slot in the Guard. But in his interview with Lieutenant Colonel Walter B. Staudt, the young Bush said he wanted to fly "just like his daddy," which surely would have invited the question, if Staudt had not already known the answer, "Just who is your daddy?" The story does not end there. Bush was commissioned as a second lieutenant in September 1968 after just five weeks of basic training, without even going through officer candidate school, and immediately embarked on pilot training. Curiously, in his autobiography, Bush fudges this extraordinarily swift promotion. "I spent 55 weeks on active duty, learning to fly, and graduated in December 1969. My dad pinned on my second lieutenant wings, a proud moment for both of us." However, there is no such thing as "second lieutenant wings" in the US military. Second lieutenants receive gold bars; pilots get wings. Bush has somehow conflated the two. We know he did not actually write this book; it also appears he may not have read it. >>