[lbo-talk] Condomleeza Rice

Marvin Gandall marvgandall at rogers.com
Thu Nov 18 09:12:21 PST 2004


Jon Johanning wrote:


> But Georgie-Boy seems to have some sort of moxie that the Supreme
> Commander of the Allies in Europe lacked -- everyone in his
> administration seems to be scared shitless of him, or ecstatic to kiss
> his ring, I can't tell which.
----------------- Is it that, or is he just a useful idiot who has delivered the White House to them and listens to what they say, so they flatter him?

I haven't been able to watch him perform without constantly being reminded of Chauncey Gardener, the Peter Sellers character in Being There who was an uncanny foreshadowing of Bush. Actually, not quite. Bush the frat boy is also sly, malign and arrogant in a way the humble Chauncey was not.



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