The Bush Legacy: The Business is Personal

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On the Soviet side of Berlin, people made things with nonprofit systems, so their stores were filled with merchandise. In the US zone, greedy people rushed to the Soviet Zone, stripped stores of everything, CAUSING SHORTAGES. Then they said
"See, there's nothing over there. Communism doesn't work." They sold the cheap good for huge profits in the US zone. What could they do? They built the Wall. It is so wrong to let the lies continue, when all presidents since then knew the truth and hid it. Reagan added to his image as a "defender against the Red Menace." He said the pope guided his presidency. The Vatican is proud that it claims to be the defender of capitalism, the free enterprise system, etc. During WWII, a Bush collaborated with Nazis. The Bush family, in my view, is not Old Money nor genuine high society. Young Bush, not a great scholar, really is more at home on a ranch, not part of an advanced intellectual circle. Do you remember when elder Bush was in a supermarket & didn't understand the pricing machine & wasn't familiar with prices of groceries? Being rich removes some people from reality. If they're public servants, that can't be tolerated.

aura dawn veirs of CA 1:49AM October 24, 2009

They're gone, Ms. Stiehm. Take a valium. You want to pick on dynasties? Try the Clintons who ran one of the more corrupt administrations in our history, and whose male partner is the only president to be impeached in the 20th Century, and one of two presidents to be disbarred. Or try Chris Dodd, or the ethically challenged Dodds of Connecticut, he of the cozy deal with a mortgage giant whose collapse triggered our financial meltdown. True, they are Democrats, but they were out there as prospective dynasts. Or Mutt Romney, now there's a Republican who was trying to clean up the family name. Go after him.

sailhardy of MA 7:58PM October 23, 2009

Your specialty is the stiletto in the underbelly - a-la Mark Antony "...and of course Brutus is an honorable man."
Nicely done - and you saved the thrust for last.

R.L. Schaefer of CA 3:11PM October 23, 2009