Word: frats
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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What Would We Have Called Him at the Frat House...
...himself, sort of: "Bing Crosby." Already he is the famous singer all the girls adore. Already he plays pranks on the unwary and has a comedy abettor, an ur-Hope wise guy played by Arthur Stone. Somehow, though, he made the prankishness look like the inevitable spillover of a frat-house exuberance...
...trousseau, the most corrupt sale of indulgences since the Reformation) has managed to make Bush look unexpectedly presentable by contrast. And 2) Alan Greenspan, Czar of All the Russias, came forth to say that W.'s tax cut might be a good idea after all. In other words, the frat boy had figured it out even before Greenspan did. W. gets an upgrade from idiot to idiot savant...
...them roll over and play dead, threw the invisibility cloak over the congressional wing of his party and made them disappear. Stripped of every winning Republican issue--the cold war, crime, the economy--he proceeded to run on Democratic ones--education, health care, Social Security. Lampooned as a feckless frat boy, he ran a more disciplined race than we have seen in years; he made his inexperience a virtue, his vagueness a shield, his sins a sign of sincerity...
...when George W. came into his own. The first half of the decade were his wilderness years, a long lost weekend as a frat-boy scion of the Bush family. But midway through the decade he hit forty, discovered Jesus and became John Quincy Adams-in-waiting. It?s an era he understands and cherishes...