Barrel of Monkeys: Genesis in Reverse: Blair: Bush world view had 'immense simplicity'

BARREL OF MONKEYS: "GENESIS" in Reverse

I consider myself a Democrat. Been called a Socialist. Definitely a bleeding heart liberal.

As a child from a traditional southern family, playing Barrel of Monkeys on the floor, church every Sunday, doing well in public school, learning a trade; in every sense privileged .........

Comfortable in middle age, an avid news reader, on learning the tragic story of a full grown chimpanzee destroying the face of a woman who offered a toy, only trying to help it's owner coax her surrogate child back into his cage......

Today being confrontational, ribald, offensive, restless, rebellious.......

How did I get here from there?

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Blair: Bush world view had 'immense simplicity' - CNN.com

Blair: Bush world view had 'immense simplicity' - CNN.com: "Detailing the close professional and personal relationship which developed between the two leaders in the wake of the 2001 terror attacks in the U.S. and during the build-up to the Iraq war in 2003, Blair writes that Bush was 'very smart' while having 'immense simplicity in how he saw the world.'
'Right or wrong, it led to decisive leadership... he sincerely believed in spreading freedom and democracy,' he writes in 'A Journey;' which hit book stores in the UK on Wednesday.
But Blair, whose premiership overlapped the presidencies of Bush and Bill Clinton, reserves his warmest words for Bush's Democratic predecessor, describing him as a 'political soulmate' and 'the most formidable politician I had ever encountered.' He also defends Clinton over the Monica Lewinsky affair."

Barrel of Monkeys: Genesis in Reverse