^{Photo courtesy of The Washington Post} 

It has been reported in the Huffington Post--in great detail, so I tend to believe it--that large chunks and passages in Bush's new "memoir" were lifted from other sources, verbatim.  Which is, of course, profoundly disgusting.  I mean, jeez, man, can't you simply sit there for a few hours, let your ghost writer interview you, and go from there?  You have to have a staff tell you what it is you did, and supply the text describing it?  Really, that brings a whole new level of pathetic to this man.

And it got me thinking:  this is really Bush in microcosm, isn't it?  His whole life, he's wanted all the accolades of success, but hasn't wanted to do the actual hard work.  He wasn't an athlete like Dad; he was a cheerleader.  He was an oil executive, and flamed out badly.  He was the owner of a baseball team, and did the same.  He's worked hard to get jobs that carry lots of cachet, and he's used all of his family's influence, money, and power to squeeze his way into them, but once he had them, he simply didn't want to do the work.

Think about it:  he would rather play guitar than run to the situation room while New Orleans drowned.  He professes that he wanted to appear "calm and not panic" when he heard that the country was under attack, but to most of us it looked like he was just sitting there, stunned.  A cheerleader suddenly shoved into a helmet and set of pads, handed the ball, and told, "Go get 'em, Junior!"

And now he wants to be an "author".  But writing is hard work--believe me, I know; I do it every damn day--and Junior doesn't like hard work.  But ex-Presidents write books, so he was going to write books.  The same way he bought a baseball team, and became a major stockholder in an oil company, and became governor, and President:  he let other people do all the dirty work, which included crimes (plagiarism), and now wants to get all of the credit and none of the blowback.

Folks, if that isn't the textbook definition of "entitled", I don't know what is.   Is there anything about this man that is real and genuine?  I can't believe he was ever President.