ABSTRACT
Before September 11, George W. Bush’s presumed inadequacies and his status as America’s first appointed president were fair game. From satirical television to published accounts, irreverent reminders of Bush’s thin resume were ubiquitous. Is Our Children Learning: The Case Against Prezident George W. Bush was typical. In it, political analyst Paul Begala summarizes the basis for skepticism:
The guy who got into Yale despite being an underachieving party boy, the guy who got into the Texas Air National Guard despite scoring in the bottom 25 percent of the pilot aptitude test, the guy who got into the oil business despite not knowing a dry hole from a dry martini, the guy who got into the owners’ box of the Texas Rangers despite owning less than 2 percent of the team, the guy who got into the multimillionaires’ club despite being a failure in business now gets into the White House despite losing the election.1
