George W. Bush: ‘The Blacks didn’t come out for me like the Hispanics did, so they’re not going to see much help from me,�

by angryindian | September 17, 2007 at 02:23 pm

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Even when people are writing on Bush the Younger, his racism shines through. I remember reading a direct quote in the NY Daily News Sunday Magazine some years back during the reign of Clinton the Sex Addict that former First Lady Barbera Bush had issues with her husband's attitudes towards Africans. Apparently she has a very good friend who is African and Bush the Elder told her that her Black galpal was not welcome in their home. I remember her saying that she thought his bigotry was not only wrong but stupid. Even retired general Colin Powell has admitted that when it comes to race, the former American president was not all that accepting.

It seems that Dubya inherited his father's intolerance and plantation mentality. Kinda puts Katrina and the aftermath in an entirely new dimension, does it not? - The Angryindian

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Bill Maher had Robert Draper, the author of the George W. Bush biography “Dead Certain: The Presidency of George W. Bush” on his HBO show “Real Time.“

From Draper we learn that Bush considers himself a lonely man who reads alot– 87 books last year alone Draper swears–including newspapers (even though Bush lies about that and says he doesn’t). The President also supposedly has a hidden intelligence, handicapped by his stubbornness borne of insecurity and a “scruffy” charm that includes a penchant for eating while he talks to people with food falling out of his mouth.

We also learn that after Bush “won the Texas Governorship, he said to an aide,

We also learn that after Bush “won the Texas Governorship, he said to an aide, ‘The Blacks didn’t come out for me like the Hispanics did, so they’re not going to see much help from me,’”

but according to Draper, that was just an example of Bush’s dismissive
petulance, not vengeful bigotry or anything like that.