After reading this thread, and all the psycho-analyzing that is being done, I gotta say that the explanation for Bush’s actions, as with most people, is usually much simpler.
Bush just wants mexicans in the US. He likes them and wants them to be happy. His tantrums are simply tantrums because he thinks he’s not going to get what he wants.
It follows that such juvenile attitudes do not befit the office of the presidency, but that’s what we elected and are likely to have to endure until Jan 2009.
The man prefers Mexicans to Americans. It really is that simple. Now the “why” is for the psychoanalysts....but it really doesn’t matter why.
Okay, we may never know the “why” behind Bush. This is an interesting thread. That said, I’m tired of being the guy’s bottle, congregation, salvation, and pocketbook.
“Bush just wants Mexicans in the US. He likes them and wants them to be happy.”
I agree that’s part of it, maybe a lot of whole of it. I think there are a lot of interests at work here, and we are only being told a little bit of the truth. And like you, I think the “why” is irrelevant. But the fact of the matter is that this lack of border security is an egregious dereliction of Presidential duty. The federal government has an obligation to repel invasions and provide for the common defense. Instead we have gangbangers, drug runners, the Ft. Dix terrorists and the Mexican army wandering back and forth across the border at will.
Can you imagine FDR refusing to fight the Germans in World War II because he liked bratwurst and lederhosen and had fond memories of his Nanny Helga growing up? That’s essentially what Bush has chosen to do. He’s not going to uphold his Constitutional obligation because he personally doesn’t feel like it.
In that sense he still is the immature frat boy, the consummate self-absorbed, narcissistic Baby Boomer. It’s all about him, him, him, him, him, him, HIM and his personal preferences, and the best interests of the rest of us be damned.
>>After reading this thread, and all the psycho-analyzing that is being done, I gotta say that the explanation for Bush’s actions, as with most people, is usually much simpler.
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Exactly. Bush just wants his way. He really has no loyalty to the United States as an actual geographic place - which it most obviously, is.
Most of the major players see global government as inevitable. The border, in their minds, are going to go away eventually, so why fight it?
Globalism is the point.
The first step will be an economic union of geographic regions, that is what we are seeing now, and Jorge is not going to let the American people get in the way of that!