Dubya's whole life is "Strings to get in and Strings to get out"....

[trumad]

Think about it... Strings to get into the NG and strings to get him out with an honorable discharge without fulfilling his duties...Financing for his failed business adventures, and Money from Daddy's friends to bail him out.... Strings to get into Harken, and strings that told him to sell and make 800,000 bucks... Strings to invest that 800 grand in the Rangers, and strings when Tom Hicks bought the team making Dubya 14 million.

And of course the biggest string of all.... Daddy's buddies in SCOTUS getting him into the White House.

[Red Fox]

1. That was just the business part

You forgot his academic "career" and his military "career". Exactly the same thing.

[trumad]

6. You're right

without Daddy's help that C student could have never made it into Yale...

[sundancekid]

2. SCOTUS strings to get in, BUT this time VOTER REVOLT and he's out!

[catmandu57]

3. No wonder he's a puppet

take away the strings and you have a heap, collapsed on a floor.

[Gin]

5. great campaign ad...him with all these strings and being manipulated..

how true...even in the white house he is a puppet....god...what has this country come to when this person can be in the oval office?

[Cocoa]

4. special treatment is the most damaging aspect of this story

and photos of him at the time underscore it, his arrogance and privilege jump out at you.