Fwd: Bush Family Baseball; From Cute Sociopath to Global War Criminal by Teresa Simon-Noble

This story is true.  I heard Barbara Bush tell it to an audience years ago when she was either fund raising for George, or selling one of her books, and she thought she was just being “cute” about her family ...i don’t think she realized that she was telling the story of the seed of sociopathy being planted in her son by her equally sociopathic husband.    tsn

Bush Family Baseball;

From Cute Sociopath to Global War Criminal

By Teresa Simón-Noble

 “It is the pitch of a father who never c or rected his son’s misguided baseball game and the batting son who is still misaiming his baseballs at destroying the American Democracy”.

 

A long time ago Barbara Bush told a story about a young teenaged boy named George and the baseball he hit and aimed directly at an old neighbor’s second story window. The story, for me, today, connects many dots between the American attacks on Fallujah, the White House purge of the CIA liberals, the advent of new horrors to come against the world and our very own democracy during the second Bush Squat-A-Thon and, between this young George, her son, and our Squatter in the White House.

 

In the story, as I recall the telling of it, Barbara Bush said that she was both enraged at

George for breaking the old man’s window and, that she, feeling powerless to do anything about what George had done, or failing to find the right “discipline” for George, she launched a verbal attack on him for aiming the ball at their neighbor’s window and  or breaking it, and then  threatened George with a, “wait until your father hears about this,” tirade, the implication being that George was going to get his just deserves once George Senior got home and was apprised of George’s misadventure.

 

Barbara Bush expected her husband to be equally enraged upon learning of George’s misadventure.   She expected the elder George to call the younger George on the carpet right then and there and fry his butt, or impose some “you are grounded for an x period of time,” stuff.  Instead, she says, the elder George was amazed and bewildered at young George’s ingenuity and good aim and with approval and admiration in his voice at his son’s mischief he kept repeating, “Gee, you mean to say that George batted the ball that far?  ... You mean to say that George broke the old man’s window?”

 

So much for discipline and just deserves. George the elder paid for the repair to the old man’s window and George received no punishment for his mischief which turned out to be a cause celeb for the elder George.

 

That was, in my mind as I heard the story, the very birthing of a sociopathic son by a sociopathic father who was letting his son get away without any consequences for his mischievous actions... a pattern which, as history makes clear, has repeated itself time and time again in the Bush father-son dyad. 

 

The story foreshadows many of the now well known rescuer-rescued dynamics between the two Georges. It points to the admiration and idealization for mischief present in the Bush family, and it provides a basis for , at least, a bare minimum understanding of all of the horror stories that have accompanied their mischievous behavior on a grand national scale : from the stealing of election 2000, to the equally mischievous but newly perfected re-stealing of election 2004, to the invasion and occupation of Iraq, to the Fallujah Massacre, to the CIA purge of liberals and of those who do not supp or t the Bush doctrine... to, and including the clear directive from the current director of the CIA to neither suppor t opposition to George, nor champion opposition to the administration nor its policies ... behind all of which, I believe, George the elder (the only former president who continues to receive, at his request, CIA [ or is it FBI?] briefings) is not only pulling the strings, but is still, with awe and admiration in his voice, muttering, Wow! Look at George and at all that he is accomplishing in his presidency on behalf of the nation and the world as he throws one ball after another against democracy, civil liberties, environmental protection, innocent civilians in other countries, etc. etc., etc.! Wow! What a son, the elder Bush continues to mutter. Wow...the power of a baseball! 

 

What a pitcher’s pitch and a batterer’s bat!

 

It is the pitch of a father who never corrected his son’s baseball game, and the batting of a son who is misaming his baseballs against our American democracy and

 world peace.

 

It is a like father, like son story.

 

 

Teresa Simon-Noble

Teresa Simon-Noble fchiok@bellsouth.net  is a computer activist for peace and social justice who lives in the sunny state of Florida . She is a former mental health clinician.  A poet and a freelance writer, her work has been published in several online publications