rawbone8
Cherished Member
- Joined
- Jun 30, 2004
- Posts
- 2,827
- Media
- 1
- Likes
- 295
- Points
- 303
- Location
- Ontario (Canada)
- Sexuality
- 99% Straight, 1% Gay
- Gender
- Male
DC— is that an oblique reference toDC_DEEP said:While I agree that he certainly exhibits those traits, I am not sure I would jump to those conclusions - it is not easy for an outside observer to make a diagnosis based simply on a set of behaviors.
Diagnosis and prognosis aside, there is a lot of merit to the article. Whether it is from years of substance abuse or from a life of failing to live up to the family expectations, one thing is clear. George W. falls way short of grandpappy Prescott and pappy George H. W. I admit, I have not studied his biography, but it seems that he was never able to start anything by himself, and he even failed when GHW and Prescott set him up. He failed so miserable at business that the family decided to set him up in politics, where even his failures could be "spin-doctored" into successes, and that continues to this day.
For those of you who are not familiar at all with his background, you should do a couple of online searches for "Prescott Bush". Be sure to read at least at least 3 or 4 different sources, hopefully finding a couple of "pro" and a couple of "anti" to get a fairly balanced feel. Prescott Bush was not necessarily a nice man, and his family empire should be viewed with a bit of a jaundiced eye, so to speak.
(A) the rumour that as a young man Prescott and his officer mates indulged in skulduggery (literally) by digging up Geronimo's grave and stealing the cadaver's skull as a trophy for the Skull and Bones group at Yale?
or
(B) being officer of a company that did so much trading with the Nazis?
[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]How Bush's grandfather helped Hitler's rise to power[/FONT]
[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Rumours of a link between the US first family and the Nazi war machine have circulated for decades. Now the Guardian can reveal how repercussions of events that culminated in action under the Trading with the Enemy Act are still being felt by today's president[/FONT]
[FONT=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif] Ben Aris in Berlin and Duncan Campbell in Washington
Saturday September 25, 2004
The Guardian
[/FONT] George Bush's grandfather, the late US senator Prescott Bush, was a director and shareholder of companies that profited from their involvement with the financial backers of Nazi Germany. The Guardian has obtained confirmation from newly discovered files in the US National Archives that a firm of which Prescott Bush was a director was involved with the financial architects of Nazism.
His business dealings, which continued until his company's assets were seized in 1942 under the Trading with the Enemy Act, has led more than 60 years later to a civil action for damages being brought in Germany against the Bush family by two former slave labourers at Auschwitz and to a hum of pre-election controversy.