I wrote here about the incredible ignorance displayed during the Presidency of George W Bush and how it reflected findings that people who are incapable are unable to assess it.
Wow, how right this research was.
Read the following paragraphs about a new book called, Speech-Less: Tales of a White House Survivor, written by a former speech of GWB:
“The portrait of George W. Bush….(is of) a bully who cannot stand to be contradicted, who thinks he knows everything despite being grossly ignorant most of the time, and who browbeats those beneath him into agreeing with him.”
and
“One of the things that Latimer (the author) talks a lot about is the importance of the president’s mood, which appears to have gyrated wildly. Apparently, the best way to get on his good side was to pretend to be stupid so that Bush would seem like a genius by figuring out some simple point for himself. Latimer says that national security adviser Stephen Hadley was very good at doing this.”
It is a relief that we only had two wars, the wide-spread degradation of civil liberties, and the largest economic disaster since the Great Depression.
PS. I just had to reinsert this picture of myself with a wax image of GWB – which I suspect had greater self-awareness than the original.
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