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To: stockman_scott who wrote (28979)	7/18/2005 2:59:39 PM
From: SiouxPal	Respond to of 362497

What Will "Little George" Decide? 07.18.2005Thomas de Zengotita As the author of a widely acclaimed (these things are relative) book that includes a comparison of the mediated personalities of Bush (“The President’s Heart”) and Clinton (“The President’s Penis”), I think I understand what’s at stake for Dubya as he picks the next Supreme. First of all, this is totally up to him. It’s not like the war and the economy—this is something that really matters that he can actually control. So he’s thrown back on primal ground. That means a struggle between the Texas/born-again Bush and the Kennebunkport/Episcopal Bush. The Texas Bush is, to this day, trying to convince himself that attitudes and gestures he once decided were ideal are really his own -- those postures of western manliness, the arms held out from the body, fist side forward, swinging with his strides, and all the rest. That whole persona is assumed but it is all the more important to him for that very reason. That was how he distinguished himself from those patrician Easterners—his father most of all—people among whom he failed so utterly to be otherwise distinguished as he coasted through those intimidating schools and clowned for the hackers at the club. Hence the aura of puppetry around him, arising from the repeated deployment of mannerisms that never quite settled in. Because the Kennebunkport Bush could not be denied. It’s always been there—most apparently in his loyalty to a father who was ashamed of him, but stuck by him anyway. That’s a debt that could not be paid, only eluded. So Dubya always wished he were Texas, because it made him feel good, but he was always really Kennebunkport, which made him feel diminished. Will he assert the Texas trope again or will he seek a reconciliation, a compromise formation? Bar and Dad are watching. And Laura too. I’m betting Little George will go home.