Hating Bush

loving Castro. It’s all good:

He was a courtly State Department intelligence analyst from a prominent family who loved to sail and peruse the London Review of Books. Occasionally, he would voice frustration with U.S. policies, but to his liberal neighbors in Northwest D.C. it was nothing out of the ordinary. “We were all appalled by the Bush years,” one said.

So, who could blame him for spying for a communist dictator?

15 thoughts on “Hating Bush”

  1. “We were all appalled by the Bush years,” one said.

    No doubt they have no idea how Nixon won.

  2. One thing that amazes me about the Castro personality cult is that it attracts blacks

    No more amazing than the fact that Islam attracts blacks as well, despite the fact that is was Muslims who sold their ancestors into slavery.

  3. The common thread that explains the attraction of a Castro or Islam is that “resist Whitey” and “bop The Man”** are expressions of authentic Blackness(TM).

    ** Special thanks to Homey the Clown

  4. No more amazing than the fact that Islam attracts blacks as well, despite the fact that is was Muslims who sold their ancestors into slavery.

    Yeah. The Saudis owe Obama a slavery reparations check 🙂

  5. At least it is refreshing to see people who did not spy for the money. Like the Walker family, Kyle Conrad (from the Canasta Player case), etc.

    The KGB/GRU always told its recruiters that Americans could be bought a lot faster than they would respond to ideology. And they were right. They used the acronym MICE – Money, then Ideology. I don’t know what C or E stood for since they were so seldom resorted to.

  6. His capsule bio reads like an American version of Philby, Burgess and Maclean – an arrogant little trust fund shitheel who attended all the best schools and worked for the State Department. Alger Hiss II. Can anyone with sense and a sense of history really claim to be shocked by this?

  7. > …The KGB/GRU always told its recruiters that Americans could be bought a lot faster
    > than they would respond to ideology….

    Back when I got security training I was told they prefered blackmail. Trowing a guy in bed with a hooker was much easier on the budget then buying a Walker,

    😉

  8. “Compromise” (compromising situations – ie, extortion) and “Ego” (think Alcibiades), Mike.

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