First President Bush Sobs While Talking of Son

George Bush I broke down in tears the other day ostensibly whilst discussing his son Jeb and the noble way he faced defeat.

He said, "A true measure of a man is how you handle victory and how you handle defeat".

Am I alone in thinking that he was actually thinking of George W. and his recent defeat at the hands of the American public when his voice started to quiver? In "State of Denial" Bush I is reportedly unable to sleep through worrying about his wayward son's decision to invade Iraq, a country that the first President Bush decided not to invade whilst he was in office citing reasons that have all come to seem very wise, given the quagmire that his less bright son has embroiled himself in.

W. was always the rebel in the family, the angry little drunk who seemed to live in the shadow of both his father and his younger, brighter brother. It is fair to say that the father made plans for Jeb's political success and supported George's new found political ambitions only as a welcome substitute for the unsavoury lifestyle he seemed to have chosen for himself.

There was always something Oedipal about all this.

George W. set out to do something that even Daddy hadn't been able to do and, in doing so, he has destroyed any chance of Jeb ever achieving the highest office in the land and has possibly destroyed the Bush family name in the process.

And now the father, already we are told suffering from sleep deprivation, has to watch the last two years of his son's lame duck Presidency with the fresh news that George W. may very well ignore the advice of Baker - who George I has sent in to rescue W. from his own madness.

It's enough to make anyone weep.

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