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Bush Displays His Fatal Flaw: 'I Dunnow'

Submitted by christine on Fri, 01/16/2009 - 12:33pm.

A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS
by Christine Bowman

Trying to burnish his image upon leaving office, Bush once again dodges responsibility and insight.

Larry King on January 14 unexpectedly got George W. Bush to encapsulate his biggest problem as President by asking him if we ever came close to catching bin Laden. 

"I don't know. I can't answer that. ... I really don't know. I'm not trying to hide anything."


Yes, the 43rd President kind of said it all right there:

1. He doesn't know key things about his own administration that he damned well should. 

2. There's always that nagging question as to whether he is trying to hide something. 

3. He is clueless or in denial about his own shortcomings and mistakes.

Larry King was asking the President about bin Laden, the international icon of jihad and terrorism. Bush himself cites the "war on terror" as his constant concern as president and his key achievement ("keeping America safe," "no post 9/11 attacks on U.S. soil") -- yet he doesn't know if he ever came close to capturing the Number 1 "evil-doer"?

The "I dunnow" president is the same man who famously said, "I want justice ... There's an old poster out West, as I recall, that said, 'Wanted: Dead or Alive.'" (G.W. Bush, 9/17/01, UPI).

Clearly, George W. Bush ran an eight-year presidency of disengagement. He functioned as a figurehead letting the misguided Cheney, Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld, and other neoconservative ideologues do the heavy lifting on issues of war and peace, life and death, and American leadership. He let "Heckuvajob" Horseshow-Judge Brownie handle the worst national disaster in U.S. history. He put his Department of Justice in the hands of political manipulators. He named his top political hack, Karl Rove, to a top policy job.

George W. Bush delegated his greatest responsibilities. He relied on others to steer the ship of state while he alternately took long vacations or wrung his hands anxiously. Perhaps George W. Bush had occasional "decider" moments, but over time it has become clear that he simply didn't have the wherewithal to make well-reasoned decisions. As Chris Matthews at MSNBC observed following the farewell speech Thursday night, the younger Bush had never done the hard preparation needed to prepare for the presidency. Young George punted and hung out with the jocks at his string of high-priced schools, riding his father's coattails through life and straight into the Oval Office. 

A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS

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boosh, the puppet

Submitted by willymack on Sat, 01/17/2009 - 12:24am.
At some time in his "presidency", dumbya was told that he was to "go along for the ride", or else. A cabal of criminals, nominally headed up by cheney (but really poppie's boys) actually ran the show. This probably took place shortly before 911. The profound and paralyzing state of shock bush was in for those seven minutes after he was told about 911 says volumes. This was his real defining moment. This was when he realized he wasn't the "decider" at all, but merely a stooge.
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More Complex

Submitted by urthsong on Sat, 01/17/2009 - 1:27pm.
I seriously doubt that Poppy Bush people were always running the show. Significantly, when Sec. of Defense Gates advised Bush against attacking Iran with bunker buster missiles as Cheney had been insisting, Bush finally listened to a Poppy Bush man and decided not to do it. There had to be a whole lot behind all this. For instance, there were the bunker busters our government supplied to Israelis that they used on southern Lebanon (testing), killing many children and women who had been hiding in underground structures for safety. Of course, the Israelis didn't use nuclear warheads. But then there was that "accident" that could not have been when nuclear warheads were accessed from a high security storage site, mounted over an eight hour period on a military plane and flown to an airbase used to supply forces in the Middle East. The facts that at least a half dozen personnel died in accidents and suicides in the weeks immediately following the incident would indicate further just how close Cheney came to a nuclear attack on Iran that would surely have started WW III. So, while I can't give Dubya credit for much, at least he listened to Poppy Bush's man, Gates, on this one. Pat Williams
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COMMENT FROM "rdn"

Submitted by RenoMike on Fri, 01/16/2009 - 7:02pm.
RenoMike sez: FIRST OF ALL, THANK YOU FOR YOUR CHILDISHLY SNIDE COMMENT, rdn (see down below) AND YOUR LADYLIKE CONDESCENSION. WE "LEFTY" FOLK ARE VERY GRATEFUL TO YOU, AS CHRIS MATTHEWS MUST BE...SECONDLY, WHY NOT GO BACK TO COMMENTING ON YOUR OWN BORING RIGHT WING BLOGS, THUS SHARING YOUR IGNORANCE WITH THOSE TOOLS WHO ARE YOUR PEERS.
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Bush Channels Reagan

Submitted by neoconned on Fri, 01/16/2009 - 3:55pm.

Bush isn't as clueless as we are being led to believe. To those too many who decided they would like to have a beer with the guy, you got stuck with the huge bar tab for his celebration. So, How'd You Like Your Beer?

When Bill Clinton let the Reagan-Bush I war criminals off the hook by not investigating their October Surprise and Iran-Contra wrongdoing, the defensive precedent was established. All any perpetrator now has to say is "I don't recall" or "I don't know". The burden of proof then falls upon the prosecution to prove in some verifiable and unimpeachable manner that the allegation is true.

So it goes with the Bush II war criminals. One of the reasons W is all over the media is to spread the official excuse script to those who might (if Obama and the Democrats weren't so complicit) have come under investigation and potential indictment. Should they have been brought to trial, all they would have to say is what is now being said by their leader-in-crime, and all will be well for the fascist elites who stole from everyone for their own enrichment.

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Chris Matthews, who

Submitted by rdn on Fri, 01/16/2009 - 1:45pm.
Chris Matthews, who generally is merely, barely acceptable (but much, much better than most in the MSM pundit swamp), really came strong 1/16 when Olberman asked for his take on Bush's 8 year path of destruction, er, "Legacy" vis-a-vis his last (REALLY??!!) orchestrated rambling. For a non-Lefty, Chris did good....
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