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Former President George H.W. Bush, aka Poppy Bush, has released a book. You have probably heard by now that it is distinctly unflattering to two members of the George W. Bush presidency; he thinks Dick Cheney became "very hard line" after 9/11, and for once a Republican doesn't mean "hard line" in a good way, but he reserves most of his fatherly spite for George's Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who "served the president badly."
"I don't like what he did, an I think it hurt the President, having his iron-ass view of everything, Bush told Meacham. "There's a lack of humility, a lack of seeing what the other guy thinks. He's more kick ass and take names, take numbers. I think he paid a price for that."President Bush the Elder has not been in the best of health these past few years, and so if he's going to be releasing a biography he probably is keen on getting it out there sooner rather than later. Writing a book in which you publicly distance yourself from your own son's administration, though, is pretty damn harsh. Granted, Bush the Elder feels that the things that went wrong (he still supports his son's inexplicable invasion of Iraq, or at least is still willing to stick to that script) went wrong because of the people surrounding George W. Bush, and not because his son mini-George was in fact the person screwing all those things up hisownself. The message, though, is still clear: Yes, even I, the boy's father, admit that my son's administration was chock-full of screwuptitude.
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