George Herbert Walker Bush
waxes poetic on his past presidency:
“I feel like an asterisk,” he told Mr. Meacham wistfully one day at the family’s cliffside house in Kennebunkport, Me.
“I am lost between the glory of Reagan — monuments everywhere, trumpets, the great hero — and the trials and tribulations of my sons,” Mr. Bush reflected on another day in Houston, where he also has a home.
Ouch.
Skirmishes in the Bush clan were touched off by Pa Bush's lowered opinions of Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, published in his new biography where it's going to be darn difficult to take them back. Jeb!, meanwhile. appears to be taking his brother's side, not his father's. This is important to Jeb!, because if Jeb! wants to win his own party's nomination for the presidency, Jeb! needs to convince everyone that George the Younger's administration was not a colossal failure brought on by the economic and military chuckleheads that George (and now Jeb!) have surrounded themselves with, but in fact super-awesome and so critics like Pa just need to shut the heck up already.
“My brother is a big boy,” Jeb Bush told NBC News. “His administration was shaped by his thinking, his reaction to the attack on 9/11. I think my dad, like a lot of people that love George, want to try to create a different narrative, perhaps, just because that’s natural to do.”
Jeb Bush said that Mr. Cheney “served my brother well as vice president and he served my dad extraordinarily well as secretary of defense.” He added, “We have to get beyond, I think, this feeling that somehow 1991 is the same as 2001.”
Translation: My dad is stuck in the past. Get with the program, zoot suit.
Is this what that Kardashian show is like? I don't watch those things but this feels like a highbrow version of that Kardashian show.
