Oedipus Prez

Everybody knows that George W. Bush has spent his life trying to measure up to his father, right? And that he never quite made it?

George Sr. was a fighter pilot in World War II - George Jr. sat out Vietnam as a pilot in the Texas Air National Guard.

George Sr. was a college athlete, playing baseball at Yale. George Jr. was a college athlete too, but his sport of choice gets far less respect - he was a yell leader.

George Sr. moved from his privileged upbringing in Maine (although he took a lot of money with him and never did give up his home or his cigarette boat) and made a fortune of his own in the oil business. George Jr. tried a couple dozen businesses, it seems like, ran them all into the ground and had to have his father's buddies bail him out.

Hell, there's even a suspicion that George Jr. started the war in Iraq just to prove that he could accomplish something his father never managed - to wit, the ouster of Saddam Hussein from power. He went so far as to say that he wanted Saddam because the man "threatened to kill my daddy."

And as if that wasn't enough, there was the time everyone knows about when a drunken George Jr. challenged the old man to a fistfight.

Well, what's the latest on the Bush home front? After all these years of George Jr. trying desperately to win Senior's approval, old George Herbert Walker Bush gives an interview discussing who might make a good president? Not George Jr., oh no - baby brother Jeb, that's who.

Benshlomo says, Oh my God, we're in for it now.