Sunday - December 07, 2008

Bush bombed by Hollywood has been, who became a minor star via the casting couch.

No kidding.

George Bush: ‘W’ seems so much smaller in real life

By Joan Collins
Last Updated: 12:01am GMT 07/12/2008

Wistful and slightly sorrowful - not the way one usually pictures the President of the United States - is how George W Bush appeared in the first of the “exit interviews” he is granting to the networks over the next few weeks. There are only about six weeks left of his tension-filled tenure as America’s 43rd President, and he obviously aims to “set the record straight” about the more serious problems that beset his eight years in office. And so he blamed the previous decade for the horrible economic situation, and defended his decision to go to war with Iraq, regurgitating that tired “axis of evil” line.

His presidency had the most terrible beginning - 9/11 came just a few months after his induction. Who can forget the shots of him reading to schoolchildren in Florida when an aide rushed in and urgently whispered in his ear? Bush carried on calmly reading to the kids while carnage and devastation rained on New York. For many people this crucial moment showed the measure of the man: indecisive and incompetent. And for the next seven-and-a-half years, he did little to change the perception of him as an amiable buffoon who shouldn’t be allowed to direct traffic, much less run a country.

He looked thin-lipped and overly powdered talking to ABC News, obviously attempting to present a better image for posterity than the one already lodged in the minds of the millions who despise him; those who believe it’s his fault - because of Iraq, Afghanistan and Wall Street’s greed - that the US and the world finds itself in such a shocking mess.

Bearing all this in mind, I was pleasantly surprised when we went to see Oliver Stone’s W, in which James Brolin gives a rather sympathetic portrayal of George Bush the younger. Scenes of “Dubya”, as his authoritarian father and controlling mother called him, show him as a young man with a rather serious drinking problem and absolutely no clue as to what to do with his life.

In W, Bush displays great strength when he decides to stand for election as Governor of Texas, mixed with utter disregard for his father’s plans to groom brother Jeb for the presidency. Stone speculates that perhaps his fatal mixture of intensity and idiocy can be traced back to Mother Bush, who famously said the hurricane in New Orleans would “work out very well” for the poor, as they’d all get new houses.

“God wants me to be president,” he says to Mom one morning over breakfast. “You must be joking!” she replies. Brolin brings Dubya brilliantly to life, showing his evolution from a spoiled, petulant drunk to a spoiled, petulant President. However it is a warmer and fuzzier picture of the man than anything he himself can paint.

Perhaps Bush should take his own counsel when asked what place he expects to have in history: “In history? In history we’ll all be dead.”

COLLINS

Posted by peiper     on 12/07/2008 at 10:28 AM   
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