Bush tapes reveal....Bush

How lame that this is a 5-page story on the Times' website. Let's examine some of the earth-shaking revelations of these secret tapes...Let's examine the real President Bush, the warmonger, the bigot, the Nazi:

The private Mr. Bush sounds remarkably similar in many ways to the public President Bush. Many of the taped comments foreshadow aspects of his presidency, including his opposition to both anti-gay language and recognizing same-sex marriage, his skepticism about the United Nations, his sense of moral purpose and his focus on cultivating conservative Christian voters.

Remarkable indeed! How revealing! A politician who says what he believes, even when nobody's looking! Let's dig deeper:

When Mr. Wead warned him that "power corrupts," for example, Mr. Bush told
him not to worry: "I have got a great wife. And I read the Bible daily. The Bible is pretty good about keeping your ego in check."

Frightening!

Preparing to meet with influential Christian conservatives, Mr. Bush tested his lines with Mr. Wead. "I'm going to tell them the five turning points in my life," he said. "Accepting Christ. Marrying my wife. Having children. Running for governor. And listening to my mother."

The Times must've misquoted him here. I'm sure he really said "Skipping out on National Guard Service; planning 9/11 with the Saudis; making friends with oil businessmen so that when I run for president, lose, have the Supreme Court appoint me, plan 9/11, link 9/11 in the American people's mind with Iraq, and then invade Iraq, I can get them all rich; and...oh yeah, FUCKIN' HALLIBURTON!!!!!"

Early on, though, Mr. Bush appeared most worried that Christian conservatives would object to his determination not to criticize gay people. "I think he wants me to attack homosexuals," Mr. Bush said after meeting James Robison, a prominent evangelical minister in Texas.

But Mr. Bush said he did not intend to change his position. He said he told Mr. Robison: "Look, James, I got to tell you two things right off the bat. One, I'm not going to kick gays, because I'm a sinner. How can I differentiate sin?"

Later, he read aloud an aide's report from a convention of the Christian Coalition, a conservative political group: "This crowd uses gays as the enemy. It's hard to distinguish between fear of the homosexual political agenda and fear of homosexuality, however."

"This is an issue I have been trying to downplay," Mr. Bush said. "I think it is bad for Republicans to be kicking gays." Told that one conservative supporter was saying Mr. Bush had pledged not to hire gay people, Mr. Bush said sharply: "No, what I said was, I wouldn't fire gays."

This is groundbreaking. Bush, being a Christian Republican, obviously hates gay people. It's interesting that even before he entered the national spotlight, when he was being taped without his knowledge, he's covering up his true feelings. This guy is sneakier than I thought.

Mr. Bush quoted Mr. Quayle as saying, "I'm proud of what I did before 40."
"As if I am not!" Mr. Bush said.

All the booze and coke aside, he should be proud what he did before he was 40.