Subject: whom Bruce have aftime led....
From: Scottie Bowman (rbowman@indigo.ie)
Date: Sun Dec 24 2000 - 08:27:40 GMT
I never doubted, of course, that the great brains were
hopelessly wrong about Dubya. Just as they were about
FDR, about Harry, about Ron.... They always are.
But now comes a wonderful confirmation & explanation
of my inner conviction.
It's revealed in yesterday's Times - THE Times (of London)
- that your President-elect is, for all practical purposes,
a SCOT. Although Governor Bush may not have travelled
widely in the world, perhaps the most formative periods
of his life were SIX prolonged sojourns which he spent
with the Gammell family in Glen Isla - one of the more
beautiful valleys of my native land & very close to my own
birthplace. It was with them that George Junior seems to
have become so deeply ingrained with that profound feeling
for land, for country people & for the natural world that
has ever set a man of true calibre apart from the deracinated
shiftlessness of a poor townie like Clinton.
'George returned home full of excitement,' noted his father
after one of theses visits. 'The Gammels made him feel as
though he was one of the family ...'
Like all the most highly bred or developed organisms
the Scots can, in certain circumstances & as I've admitted before,
deter the more delicate sensibilities. But there's simply no
enviroment to compare with a childhood spent in Scotland
for endowing the lucky beneficiary with insight, perceptiveness,
humour, kindly warmth & resolution - the prime characteristics,
surely, of any true leader. How lucky you all are to have,
even if unwittingly, acquired such a head of state.
It goes without saying, of course, that the Bush family are
loaded, LOADED, to the gills with Scots genes. (Like so
many other American presidents. It is, I believe, virtually
an essential clause of the job specification.)
But the picture, already highly satisfactory, is made complete
by the knowledge that the new President has also surrounded
himself with Scots - the most noteworthy being, probably,
General Colin Powell whose family first achieved lift-off
in the ravishing of one of his maternal forebears by that
indomitable Scot, the governor of Jamaica, General Sir Eyre
Coote.
So congratulations all round, chaps. I always knew there was
something very, very right about the new team. I just couldn't
put my finger on it.
Scottie B.
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