The Blue Line

Rattling on about the 2004 election

Wednesday, August 11, 2004

Bush sucker punch photo

Jim Sleeper in the LA Times on W's character and its frat-boy appeal:

"I am looking at a photo of the George W. Bush that you've probably never seen before. It's a sports-action close-up of him at Yale, over a caption written prophetically by a fellow undergraduate more than 30 years ago: "George Bush delivers illegal, but gratifying right hook to opposing ball carrier...

"Being that kind of bad boy may be OK if you're cutting a history class or smirking behind your hand at some radical grad student leading your discussion section — but not when you're staging a commander in chief's flight-deck landing or a Thanksgiving Day pop-up in Baghdad."