Excellent summation of Bush's career: "A Second Chance"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

http://www.georgewbush.org/news/secondchance.asp

Normally I would post the link to a satire piece in The Lounge, but this is too accurate, too carefully crafted. This one isn't "ha-ha funny," it's closer to "sad but true." Sometimes the line between satire and reality is a blurry one indeed.

You'll find an "e-mail this page to a fellow republican" URL at the end of the article. I'm sure that after you read it you'll want to pass it along.

Some samples:

"Over the course of my life, I have often benefitted from the friendship of others (see "On Friendship"). It is through my friends and the friends of my father that I came to acquire the Texas Rangers, it is through my friends and the friends of my father that I was able to acquire my first oil company, it is through my friends and the friends of my father that I was able to run for Congress, and it is through my friends and the friends of my father that I became Governor of Texas.

Finally, it is through my brother, my friends and the friends of my father that I became President of the United States."



"When my oil company couldn't find any oil in Texas, through no fault of my own, it went bankrupt just after I sold all my stock. I was never given another chance to own an oil company."



"Now all this is not good, I know. But I'm asking you for a second chance. If you grant it to me, it will be a first for my lifetime, and I will forever be grateful."