<<the possibility he is not the one-dimensional twit of popular wisdom.>>

zero dimensional?

ferrett doesn't get it. god as bush's copilot? bush doesn't have a religious, nor a humanist, bone in his body. he is a nasty, self-serving fraud. and a twit.

I don't think that's fair, bushbasher. GWB is a classic child-emperor, burdened with power he couldn't comprehend and controlled completely by his advisors. Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld were the co-presidents of the Bush administration, with the nominal President, Bush, used as a simple-minded flak jacket to soak up public criticism.

They needed Bush because he has a folksy, common-man appeal that the mercenary Rumsfeld and frankly diabolic Cheney could never bring to a presidential bid of their own.

The anger directed towards Bush is more suited to the American public, which repeatedly elected a talentless, uninspired and painfully unintelligent hayseed to the most powerful office on earth. But, hey, the voters learned their lesson well and truly by the time they got to vote for Obama.

There are dozens of valid criticisms we can make of Bush, but nasty, self-serving and non-religious aren't among them.

Any of you care to name the only US President to hold the extremely prestigious Harvard Business School, Masters Degree in Business Administration?

Here's a clue ... It ain't the banal Chicago politician currently masquerading as an intelligent US president who pretends integrity.

I see the bi-polar Oliver Stone and the singularly under-informed Ferret don't help at all either.

An MBA? Who'd have thought so many middle managers were Presidential material?

I'm sure mega-wealthy sons of oil magnates who boast that they never finished a book until university work their guts out to get a Harvard degree.

Obama did attend the equally famous Harvard Law School and became editor of the Harvard Law Review.

Look at the wives if you want a clue about the husbands.

Oh runner do you need to be so obtuse?

See this - http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/07/18/1026898888500.html

or this -
http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2004/09/16/tsurumi/index.html

And in case you don't have the patience I'll include an excerpt.

"Many of Tsurumi's students came from well-connected or wealthy families, but good manners prevented them from boasting about it, the professor said. But Bush seemed unabashed about the connections that had brought him to Harvard. "The other children of the rich and famous were at least well bred to the point of realizing universal values and standards of behavior," Tsurumi said. But Bush sometimes came late to class and often sat in the back row of the theater-like classroom, wearing a bomber jacket from the Texas Air National Guard and spitting chewing tobacco into a cup.

"At first, I wondered, 'Who is this George Bush?' It's a very common name and I didn't know his background. And he was such a bad student that I asked him once how he got in. He said, 'My dad has good friends.'" Bush scored in the lowest 10 percent of the class."

Prestigious? Guffaw