I am new to this forum, and am intrigued by this topic as well as George W. Bush. I will admit I loath him more than perhaps any other politician I can think of. I don't think he really is much a human being for that matter.

I don't think he is stupid or evil. I think he is a biproduct of elitism run amock. If you can think of a lazy, arrogant rich kid clueless about the plight of others then I think you begin to understand George W. Bush.

He has made a lifetime of getting away with stuff namely because of his name (ie - jumping the military draft, bailing on his military commitment, getting into Yale and later Harvard despite lousy grades, bailed out after ruining corporations, getting breaks for illegal drug and alcohol use, illegally winning a presidential election because of his brother's influence, not being impeached after sitting there like a complete clueless idiot when America was experiencing her worst homeland attack ever, not being impeached for overtly lying about Iraq's threat the USA, etc.)

If you read his oral autobiography "Dead Certain" - - it brings this trait out. He is a likeable guy when you get him away from any type of decision that may affect the lives of another human being. I think he is more adept shooting the breeze about major league baseball while he operates the keg at a college bash than ordering the mightiest army in the history of humanity into a soverign nation that really posed no threat to the United States.