WELCOME BACK TO THE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN, PRESIDENT BUSH
July 22nd, 2008, 9:27 am · Post a Comment · posted by Dan Lehr
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..the 1st President Bush, that is.
Glad to see that the GOP is not afraid to trot out the oldest living Republican president. For a while, he seemed to be radioactive, & that was a shame. I’ve long felt that our current president overcompensated for his father’s mistakes - leaving us in the mess we’re in now.
[update: okay, this has been called "amateur psychoanalysis" elsewhere, & while I admit I'm a total amateur, let me elaborate: it is no secret that the 1st President Bush has essentially been shut out of providing proper advice to his son in the last 8 years. He (through surrogates such as James Baker & Brent Scowcroft) advised that the Iraq misadventure be applied with far more caution &, to use an unfortunate word, prudence than was actually used. There's also the quote from W when he was interviewed by Bob Woodward for his book "Plan of Attack:"
“I asked the president about this. And President Bush said, ‘Well, no,’ and then he got defensive about it,” says Woodward. “Then he said something that really struck me. He said of his father, ‘He is the wrong father to appeal to for advice. The wrong father to go to, to appeal to in terms of strength.’ And then he said, ‘There's a higher Father that I appeal to.’"
Call it amateur if you want, but for the current president to actually consciously say that on the record says a lot about what he thinks of his father & his presidency.
Far more on the psychology of the father-son relationship in the Bush household here.]
One of the ways “HW” & I are alike is that we’re both voracious digesters of the political media. As I’m doing the cheap Comcast option of 11 channels ($8.70 a month), my diet is a bit more substantial than Bush’s likely cable-tv appetite.
This appearance with the 1st Bush is a plus for McCain in what’s generally been a bad week for him.
