A serious person
- From: "alt.politics.bush" <thomasw540@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 02:51:22 -0700 (PDT)
5 April 2009
One of the words that reassured me coming out of the G-20 was the
Russian assessment that Obama is a “serious person”. Now, I’ve done
business with Soviet officers in the Foreign Trade Organizations
related to aviation and licensed relationships. These people were
very serious people. I don’t know what happened to their careers when
the YaK-40 project ran out of gas, but they were always conscious of
the fact that they represented the interests of everyone in their
country, especially the guys who ran the Gulag. Very agile minds. As
long as you don’t actually buy in to Marxism, reading Marx can produce
considerable clarity of thought. Consider Christopher Hitchens. He
has a lovely mind. He is just in recovery from his unrequited love
for a fairy tale and being an atheist is like Newty becoming a
Catholic
But I digress. When I went to Jim Kimsey to consider doing for the
YaK-40 project what he was to do for Steve Case’s vision 10 years
later, I came to realize over the span of our association that he
wasn’t a serious person, although he takes himself pretty seriously.
He wasn’t interested, but he introduced me to a colleague and I took
this guy to meet the Soviets and, as soon as he thought he didn’t need
me anymore, he began to change the deal. And I just told him, Good
Luck, Charley. He was a total Wall Street clown, who thought making
money in a bucket shop is the same as doing business with the Soviet
Union. I had to apologize to my contacts at AviaExport for bringing
him into the loop, but that I was dealing myself out. I told this guy
that, for $3 million in 1st Tier Financing, we could put the finishing
touches on the next big chunk of money necessary to begin marketing
the aircraft and bringing a production line up to speed in
Youngstown. All the pieces were there, but it had to be done in a
certain manner, because of the Soviet content. Instead, this guy
began to reinvent the wheel and, at some point, he spent $3 million
taking a guy from Lockheed named George Prill over to Moscow and
putting on some dog-and-pony show about the YaK-40 that the Soviets
told me they didn’t really have any idea what he was talking about.
They used a Russian term for him that translates roughly into “clown”
without the pathos but dripping in hubris.
So, if the Russians consider Obama a serious person, they validate my
own consideration of the issue and that gives me great comfort.
Michael Gerson really needs to get a grip. The reason why the G-20
went so well is because the Bush administration went so bad. Just
assuming that regime change was a wise choice, the issue isn’t that it
has been accomplished, it’s that it was accomplished with such
complete incompetence by the civilian masters of the enterprise. If
Bushie had been patient and labored to restore the coalition Bush the
Elder put together for Desert Storm by first obtaining the UN mandate,
the costs of the enterprise could have been capped at $200 billion
with Hussein in the tank with the World Court. In the final analysis,
I agree with HRH Abdullah II, that what we have now is better, in no
small measure thanks to Bushie and the devotion to duty of our
military. Bushie did keep the faith with the troops when he kept
working the problem long after the neo-cons were trying to blame the
media for the failure before the surge. Bushie authentically believed
in the troops and the troops believed in him and I felt the same way
about Nixon. But Team Bush is a history of missed opportunities. His
mandate, globally, after 911 was bigger than either Reagan or Obama of
the present moment, but he preferred to conform to Karl Rove’s
political agenda. Team Bush is less a failed presidency than a
presidency squandered on the alter of the laissez-faire, gold-based,
Free Market principles of William F. Buckley, Jr.’s conservatism. He
surrounded himself with clowns with a uniform brown circle on the tip
of their collective nose and Michael Gerson is just one of the more
adept at sustaining the Mission Accomplished narrative of Team 43
mythology.
And, just for the record, Newty actually had the chutzpah to bring
Carter’s name up in part of his predictable attempt to shift the blame
for this crises on anything but his role as a champion of Supply Side
economics and the laissez-faire, gold-based, Free Market principles of
William F. Buckley, Jr.’s conservatism. I was listening to Woman Talk
on 100.3 at about 5:30 am and they were talking about how the drive by
media was focused on Geithner’s delivery instead of his message and
they, the women, thought that a lot of what goes for journalism is
“made up news”. Newty is in the business of made-up news. I mean, he
rewrote Gettysburg in the same way Ayn Rand rewrote the Russian
Revolution with John Galt as Lenin. He deals in fairy tales, but the
outcomes are living nightmares.
And that’s the truth.
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