Monday, August 01, 2005
Does Bush look like a robber baron? We were startled when we saw a picture of Bush that accompanied a Salon article (about the failures surrounding the Iraq war). It looked familiar somehow. The gaunt look. The unsmiling visage.  Then it struck us. He looks somewhat like John Rockefeller. And when you adjust the size and coloration, the match is pretty reasonable.   What do you think?
posted by Quiddity at 8/01/2005 02:02:00 PM
7 comments
To compare W with John D Rockefeller is an insult to Rockefeller. Sure, he was a robber baron, but at least he, unlike W, had brains and a talent for business, unlike W, and he actually built an industry which contributed to American economic growth. And he was a great philantropist. Unlike W, he did some good for society.
To compare W to John D. Rockefeller is an insult to Rockefeller. Sure, he was a robber baron,
John D. left a legacy of a lot of good works by himself and his children. A Babtist, I believe or his wife was. Robber Baron he may have been but just more sucessful than his peers but maybe not as ruthless. He was a man of his times. I remember that he thought that the capitalist system produced a lot of waste so he consolodated the oil industry to reduce that waste.
I don't think the Smerking Chimp will leave a legacy of anything but ruin.
I agree with anonymous--this is an insult to Rockefeller.
As far as any superficial similarity between the two photos, I'd have to be awfully stoned to make the connection. Ol' John D. has a hint of a smile; Bush has the pinched expression of a man who has just been embarrassed into doing the right thing--perhaps he was forced to give a dime to an unemployed single mom a moment before the picture was taken.
Rockefeller's legacy is heavily weighted with his later good works. Nixon's legacy is a mixed bag of good (opened China, established EPA) and bad (illegal bombing, Watergate).
Bush's legacy will be a catalog of ruin as there is not one single thing he has touched that has not turned to crap.
Derelict
oh if only he were a rockefeller republican.
i like calling him a robber baron. recalls all of the unregulated, exploitive thievery of the time (whose conditon are being replicated today) though none of the noblesse oblige.
only a indifferent fatcat would have the nerve to talk like this:
"This is an impressive crowd - the haves and the have-mores...Some people call you the elites; I call you my base." --gwb
and there the time bush grabbed land from "little people" to build his lousy stadium, taxing them to boot to pay for it. typical baron behavior.
for all the wingnuts screaming about eminent domain (and blaming it on liberals) they didn't seem to mind when bush did it.
you think there will ever be a day when americans realize how badly they've been ripped off? normal people would be enraged.
John D hired early PR guy Ivie Lee who advised him always to have dimes in his pockets to hand out to photogenic kids. John D in his old age liked to take rides in his limousine with pretty young girls. He'd wrap them all up in a buffalo robe and reputedly let his hands wander.
I'd say he wasn't much of a prize but George W is even less of one, with a meaner mouth.
I wouldn't worry, their all dead, soon
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