IF ONLY DEPARTMENT: a VERY interesting article on Bush from Vanity Fair magazine

IF ONLY MORE PEOPLE HAD READ THIS AT THE TIME!!! HISTORY MIGHT HAVE BEEN CHANGED!!!

THE ACCIDENTAL CANDIDATE: Written in October 2000 by Gail Sheehy, who had done in-depth research on Bush, it gives strong warnings to those who had the ears to hear. Instead, we were given 8 years of hell under the "leadership" of the idiot from Texas. If only the voters had paid attention! Here's the article that could have made all the difference, had enough people read it and listened to what it was saying: http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2000/10/bush200010

I remember reading Sheehy's article back then and thinking to myself, "Oh my God, I hope this idiot doesn't get into power. We will be hosed!" (And we Were!) In this past election, I had the same feeling about McCain and Palin (especially Palin!) and am thankful to the gods for not imposing yet another idiot on us. That would have been the death knell for our nation! It's not clear yet whether the death knell has not already been sounded for our country because of the damage done to us by Cheney and Bush. I hope and pray Obama can turn us around, but it is beginning to look like it may be too late. Eight years of the Bush and Cheney poison may have been too toxic for us to recover from. At the very least, it will be a long, uphill battle for recuperation and recovery.

This excerpt alone should have told us the kind of president he would be, and it's exactly the kind he WAS: nothing engages Bush's attention for more than an hour, an hour max—more like 10 or 15 minutes. His workday as governor of Texas is "two hard half-days," as his chief of staff, Clay Johnson, describes it. He puts in the hours from 8 to 11:30 a.m., breaking it up with a series of 15-minute meetings, sometimes 10-minute meetings, but rarely is there a 30-minute meeting, says Johnson. At 11:30 he's "outtahere." He tries everything possible to have at least two hours of what he calls private time in the middle of the day to go over to the University of Texas track or run a hard three to five miles on a concrete path at a pace of 7.5 minutes a mile, then relax and return to the office at 1:30, where he'll play some video golf or computer solitaire until about three, and then it's back to the second "hard half-day" until 5:30.