Bush getting ‘blue collar’ and doing physical labor for the camera
This link http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101040112/bushranch/ was posted yesterday and shows Bush getting ‘blue collar’ and doing physical labor for the camera. This isn’t anything new, of course, heck, George Washington fought in the Revolutionary War, Ulysses Grant in the Civil War and Harry Truman in World War I were elected, using their ‘war hero’ status. Andrew Jackson was a war hero and celebrated his election with a 500 pound block of cheese that his constituents devoured during the drunken White-House Party.
Bush, prep school and ivy league veteran probably spent his time in the Air Force on a folding chair in the hangar with legs propped up on a desk reading Playboy with a smirk on his face.
I’m wondering. Is quasi-aristocracy or the working class in Bush’s genetics? Literally, what kind of man is Dubya made of?
From the site: http://www.allroutes.to/bush/ The furthest back with the most information is through his mother, Barbara Bush’s side: Thomas Pierce was born in 1583. He settled in 1634 in Charlestown, MA. He died in 1666. Came from England to America in 1633 - 1634. So before the Nazi profiteering and ill-gotten riches, the Bush family was ‘of the earth’ and struggled to survive through hardship, ‘injuns’, the American Revolution, and every other landmark in American history .
But back to the farthest recorded genealogy of this truly American family …
His background is from Pilgrim times in Massachusetts. So, theoretically, Bush’s ancestors could have been involved in the Salem Witch Trials, Salem being about 17 miles from Charlestown. Even though 17 miles is much more of a trek back then, a horse would take about 1 hour and a man walking would take a day but hysteria is hysteria. This site http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/salem/witchcraft/Intro.html reveals the growing madness in the 1690’s. One particular sentence stands out, as it links the fledging ancestral Bush clan to the hunt for the brides of Satan: “What at first seemed only a localized witchcraft outbreak soon would spread rapidly and by the end of May 1692 [it included] people from communities as distant and diverse as Salem, Billerica, Andover, Charlestown(emphasis added), Marblehead, Lynn, Reading, Topsfield, Gloucester, Malden, and Beverly.” Thomas Pierce may have been dead, but his children and grandchildren could have bore witness. Their level of participation, or even if they had moved out of the area before this happened is unknown.
Either way, we go from one witch hunt to the another, it seems. The War Against Terror and the Patriot Act brings us back to Puritan-style punishment. No trial, Constitutional Amendments dealing with search, seizure and detainment are ignored. The hysteria has lit a fire under the hindquarters of those with paranoia that causes them to go along with the freedom-blighters, and those who demand an end to the gaping maw of totalitarianism.