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Give 'em the old flim-flam flummox
Fool and fracture 'em.
How can they hear the truth above the roar?
Throw 'em a fake and a finagle
They’ll never know you’re just a bagel
Razzle-dazzle 'em
And they’ll beg you for more
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And I’d like to know what situations were being described that led him to even dream of using nukes in the first place:
REPORTER: A hypothetical: As POTUS, you’re eating in a restaurant and your waiter, who is of Ecuadorean heritage, allows condensation from the water pitcher to drip two drops of water on your sleeve.
tRUMP: How far away is Ecuador. Can we nuke them?
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You make a good case. As I said in another post, it’s just my opinion of W and certainly a debatable point.
But even if he was truly as stupid as he seemed, I’m still pretty sure that his public persona was at least partly a deliberate affectation designed to downplay his immensely privileged background. Maybe a lesson learned from his father, who didn’t distance himself from his pedigree and arguably paid for it in 1992.
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I don’t exactly disagree, but we all have to wonder sometimes where affectation ends and the person begins. My understanding is that the jocular, nick-name-giving George W Bush was already around in college, decades before his presidential run.
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I used to move in political circles cos I worked as a political consultant. Some of my colleagues were the source of the anecdote. I cannot personally vouch for it. However they did add another observation. W acted as his father’s campaign manager. I’m told he was a particularly mean, and very hard assed campaign manager. Just very nasty.
Lee Atwater was most certainly GHWB’s campaign manager in deed and tone, I don’t know what your “reliable sources” were telling you, but these sources seems to be at odds with literally everyone else who has discussed Bush’s candidacy.
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