TIME Magazine - George W. Bush: The Texas Soufflé

[arcos]

How well did he serve?

Bush said he reported for duty in Alabama, but even with the new documents, the evidence is thin. TIME looks at four key questions

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Bush, then 26, would often turn up at campaign headquarters in Montgomery around lunchtime, recount his late-night exploits and brag about his political connections, according to a Blount campaign worker.

All that made him slow to win over the Alabama crowd, who began to complain that Bush was letting things slide.

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Archibald, now a trial attorney in North Carolina, remembers that a group of older Alabama socialites, who were volunteering their time, gave Bush a nickname because they thought he "looked good on the outside but was full of hot air." They called him the Texas Soufflé.

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http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/02/16/timep.bush.tm/index.html

[madmax]

1. What a great anti-bush slogan

to big for a pin. Bumber sticker? LOL I love it.

Bush, The Texas Souffle - Looks good on the outside but is full of hot air."

[BillZBubb]

2. Wow, even Repugs got it right back then!

What happened to them since then? He hasn't changed a bit. He's still a twit full of hot air.

[ComerPerro]

5. I'll tell you what happened to them

They are lock step assholes who will back Bush no matter how dumb, incompetent, or alcoholic he is, and no matter how evil, manipulative, profiteering, and murderous his cohorts are.

[Trajan]

3. The Texas Souffle ...

Oh my goodness ...

Is that just PERFECT ? ...

Some people just have his number ....

[Hippo_Tron]

4. TIME does a good job of bringing up the issue...

But I don't even pretend that TIME or Newsweek are fair and balanced. Republicans will dismiss it as liberal propaganda.

[ComerPerro]

6. That is just a great nickname

And it describes him so well

[Ilsa]

7. Someone who knew him at the campaign called him a

"c^ntsman". Said he was always on the prowl for some.

[grasswire]

8. maybe....

...there are some "love" children around. Wouldn't that be juicy.

[Stephanie]

9. NY Daily News used it for the headline!

The Daily News Washington desk is pretty good.

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/164912p-144437c.html

Portrait of Bush at 26 - 'Texas Soufflé'
By LARRY COHLER-ESSES and BILL HUTCHINSON
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS

George W. Bush won no medals for his disputed National Guard duty in the land of Dixie, but he earned a nickname: "the Texas Soufflé."
Murphy Archibald remembers Bush, then 26, as a loudmouth who showed up in Montgomery, Ala., in 1972 to work on his uncle Winton Blount's Senate campaign.

" was good at schmoozing the county chairs, but there wasn't a lot of followup," Archibald told Time magazine in its latest issue. Another worker recalled Bush rolling into Blount headquarters around lunchtime most days, bragging about his late-night exploits and big-time political connections.

Archibald said Bush made the greatest impression on a group of socialites doubling as campaign volunteers, who dubbed W "the Texas Soufflé" because he "looked good on the outside but was full of hot air."

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[arcos]

10. kick n/t

[central scrutinizer]

11. maybe Doonesbury will switch the symbol for Bush

from the asterisk * to a souffle, but it might be too obscure and hard to draw. It was easier to draw a waffle for Clinton or a feather for Quayle.

[kskiska]

12. Looks like they picked it up from here:

http://www.southerner.net/blog/awolbush.html

and here:
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0406/mondo1.php

[maxsolomon]

13. he found jesus at 40 & sobered up

so none of this counts.

he was born again, and all his sins were washed away in the blood!

souffle just replaced president moran in my lexicon.