What is the weakest part of bush*s CHARACTER?

[0rganism]

Read http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=222710&mesg_id=222710

Some people pick candidates on the basis of perceived character traits. For instance, the article in question and ensuing discussion shows that people enjoy how bush "talks at their level". He's seen as "honest", despite his inability to speak truth. He's "folksy", even though he's among the most priveleged of the priveleged elite. Thus, he is able to say one thing, do another, and many people will still connect with what he says rather than what he does.

If you were going to campaign against bush, what character aspect would you focus on? Where is his weak spot? What subject would best expose his pale maggotty underbelly?

(edited to fix link)

[lcordero]

1. character? what character?

[Renew Deal]

2. You got it first this time.

Damn we think alike.

[0rganism]

3. His phony one, as discussed in the linked thread

"Even if I don't line up with (bush) exactly on all his policies, I want a president who stands up for what he believes in," said Robert Koerper, 44, a restaurant owner. "You always know where he's coming from. That's the kind of leader I want." ...

...Most of the Bush backers, however, cited not his policies but his personality as the key to their votes. As restaurant owner Kari Lynch, 42, said with a shrug: "I just like him."

In fact, when measuring Bush's performance issue by issue, many voters found much to gripe about.

They complained that he gives too many tax breaks to the rich. That he alienates allies abroad. That he is paying far too dear a price, in blood and billions, in the occupation of Iraq.

Still, all but a few said they want him back in the Oval Office for four more years.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-bushies16nov16,1,7175956.story?coll=la-headlines-nation

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So, how would you expose this "lack of character" to a voter who thinks bush has "strength of character"?

[lancemurdoch]

4. heir

He was born with a silver spoon in his mouth, got into Yale as a legacy, kicking a hard-working studious working class kid onto the waiting list, and has had everything handed to him in life on a silver platter.

[jpgray]

5. Nobody cares about the facts

Most people have their Bush image indelibly burned into their heads. We try to destroy his image without media power, we will just be labeled angry nitpickers who are envious of Bush's "regular guy"ness.

:crazy:

HOWever, with a lot of bucks, any or all of these issues would be useful in countering the current spin.

[opihimoimoi]

6. All tops eventually slow their spin, so too shall Bushs top.

He will be a fallen star soon enough

[oldleftguy]

7. Easy!

All of the above! :bounce:

[girl gone mad]

8. I'd go after all of those character flaws,

but the one that bothers me the most is his refusal to take responsibility for anything that goes wrong on his watch. He blames and denies, and there is nothing admirable about that quality.

[loyalsister]

9. Noone mentioned his meaness

Making fun of Karla Faye Tucker.
"That's one terrible pilot."
"Trifecta"
"Bring 'em on"

.....and

I'm a baseball fan, I want a scorecard. And I actually got a chart. There's an 'X' right there.
-- Dubya explaining how he keeps the "players" straight in the War on Terrorism, and pointing out the 'X' placed on al-Qaeda military chief Muhammad Atef's picture, who had just died in U.S. bombing raids, Feb. 3, 2002

[0rganism]

10. Some of those would go under "bloodthirst", but "meanness" works too

We should follow his lead and get a chart, with space for a list of supporting evidence for each and every one of his defects

[jcc]

11. Do you really think...

That his IQ is high enough to deal with any of this? He likes money and power, like every drunken fratboy does. He does not have the intellectual capability to pull it off. He is a puppet, used only for his "pretty" face and his last name. His greatest character flaw is the one that nature gave him.

[JackSwift]

12. Cowardice and laziness

it's hard to choose between his two worst features, but there is so much evidence that he is outright craven and never does anything that might cause him to work or think.

[aldian159]

13. The rampant and extreme cowardice

that Shrub shows is by far the worse characteristic, especially considering his warmongering.

[DoveTurnedHawk]

14. Complete Failure to Take Personal Responsibility for Anything (eom)

DTH

[Zero Gravitas]

15. meaness

lack of comapssion/empathy, habitual liar, can't admit mistakes, lack of curiosity, lack of work ethic, never worked a real job, poser, ponce.

[maxsolomon]

16. incurious. parochial. xenophobic. insular. narcissistic.

no awareness of self.

know thyself.

[CBHagman]

17. It's so hard to pick just one characteristic!

Don't forget his thin-skinned nature (related to the secrecy mentioned above), refusal to countenance self-doubt (i.e., he can't admit when he's been wrong), and his enthusiasm for blaming other people (i.e., "We inherited a recession").

What makes me really sick is that Bush is touted as a good moral character, mostly because the press supposedly likes him and won't spend much time on his genuine problems. I guess it also has something to do with the belief that he's not as into sexual pleasure as Clinton was (though I doubt Bush is as chaste as some claim).

Then again, as C.S. Lewis observed, a cold, self-righteous prig who goes to church regularly may be far nearer to hell than a prositute, but of course, it is better to be neither.

[11 Bravo]

18. The fact that Pickles can actually give him a hard-on

is indicative of some seriously flawed wiring.