An Essay
Today Mr. Bush, during a press conference with the Interim Iraqi Prime Minister, dismissed the July National Intelligence Estimate by saying that it was "just guessing...."
Obviously Mr. Bush believes that the rest of the professional world lives by his own bleak and lackadaisical attitudes towards his own job requirements. Attitudes he has shown throughout his lifetime with failed business ventures, AWOL excursions, and a proven streak of compulsive lying that would have failed him out of any reasonable kindergarten classroom.
Part of the problem is that our president is the quintessential "dumb kid" who got left back a few years in school and has to take out his anger and frustration on the rest of us who are just trying to get through our own lives. The really sad part of all of this is that, given a different set of life circumstances, George might have turned out okay. Like all the "dumb kids" he's probably not really all that dumb. He's just led an unchallenging and coddled life, leaving him with a large core of insecurity about his own abilities that he constantly covers up with a veneer of "resoluteness" and machismo....
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