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| Why Bush is America's natural leader, stupid |
| 2004-09-04 |
| Translating President Bush for the Brits What single fact tells you more about George W Bush and American politics than any other? That he converted from his family's Anglicanism and became a Methodist. It is inconceivable that such a thing would happen in Britain. More to the point, the habit in Britain is the other way round. If you start life as a Methodist and then rise in the world socially, you tend to graduate ("convert" is much too strenuous a word) to Anglicanism. snip. Bush's posh, Anglican background, Queen's cousin, elite schools, etc... Bush junior's conversion follows that path - a turning away from personal failure (in his case drinking and getting nowhere) through a direct experience of God, a journey away from social grandeur to something that seemed more rugged, a journey from Connecticut to Texas. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #4 I find the Bush story reassuring. It shows that Mr Bush is not the half-witted fanatic of the BBC's imagination. {DIG DIG DIG} HA! |
| Posted by: BigEd 2004-09-04 11:24:40 AM |
| #3 "Now if he could just get the LLL to understand..." Nothing is impossible! But to make el cubos understand? Isn't "el cubos" and "understand" a contradiction? You can't reason someone out of a position they weren't reasoned into in the first place. |
| Posted by: Zarathustra 2004-09-04 7:22:21 AM |
| #2 It's ironic that the Torygraph broadly supports Bush when many members of the Tory party have rushed like lemmings to express their admiration for John Kerry. I used to wonder why the Tories seemed to act so self-destructively so much of the time. Not I've given up wondering. I just have no f'ing idea... |
| Posted by: Bulldog 2004-09-04 4:22:49 AM |
| #1 Very nice piece, TW. Thanks for posting it. The author does a good job of explaining Bush - and average Americans - to the Brits. Now if he could just get the LLL to understand.... |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2004-09-04 2:30:31 AM |