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      <![CDATA[You know, you're kind of a fucking asshole, Paul.<br />
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I will never be a fan of Bush's politics or his art. But still.
        
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      <![CDATA[You know, you're kind of a fucking asshole, Paul.<br>
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I will never be a fan of Bush's politics or his art. But still.
        
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      <![CDATA[The other painterly person mentioned here, Adolph Hitler, tried to sell his paintings for profit as a youth.  Information is how a market grows.  Life is full of surprises.  George never thought his friends would hate him enough to slam planes into World Trade Centers and fire a missile at the Pentagon and Adolph never dreamed Germany would love him enough to attack Belgium and kill a handful of millions of Jews.  As Blake said, The hapless soldier's sigh runs in blood down palace walls.
        
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      <![CDATA[@44 That's lovely. I'm sure it sucks.
        
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      <![CDATA[I'm pretty sure W. is one of the few humans we can endlessly mock until the end of time and it will never offset his crimes against taste and humanity.
        
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      <![CDATA[@35: I've already dabbled in the arts, thanks.  I'm just not stupid enough to upload mine to the internet for all to see.
        
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      <![CDATA[Paul's posts so often reveal more about himself than whomever he is ridiculing. He probably laughs at people dancing, and never dances himself. Sad.
        
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      <![CDATA[The self-portraits, at least, are not terrible. They are sort of naive and outsider-y, but interesting and well-composed. He's a much better painter than he ever was a president. <br />
And I appreciate what J from Oregon, @41 said above: ridiculing his artwork, which he never intended to make public, is a douchebag thing to do.
        
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      <![CDATA[George W. Bush was a terrible president who did terrible things, and I generally think very little of him as a human being.<br />
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That being said, hacking someone's private email makes you a dickbag, especially when that person is years out of office and has made an effort to stay relatively out of the limelight since, and when everything you steal from his email is private family stuff and stupid personal paintings. I never in my life thought I would say this, but I'm totally on Dubya's side. OK, I don't know if he has a "side" because I haven't read that he's commented on this, but I don't think his silly paintings have anything to do with anything since he didn't intentionally release them, and I'm highly irritated by the attempts to use them to talk about what a terrible president he was.<br />
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Wanna talk about the wars he started that still are going? Cool. Wanna talk about how his legacy affects current politics? Or how he fucked up the economy? Great. But making fun of his silly paintings just makes liberals look like we're stretching to come up with reasons to remind people that he's an ass. And makes some of us look like we're on the side shitbag hackers who have no business in anyone's private email.
        
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      <![CDATA[@27:<br />
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That's arts EDUMACATION...
        
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      <![CDATA[I like you, Paul, and I hate Dubya just as much as the next Seattle liberal, but ripping on someone's amateur paintings is pretty pathetic. So he's a shitty artist, so what? Every good artist started out as a shitty artist.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[MemeGene]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[I've seen worse: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/aug/22/spain-church-mural-ruin-restoration?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487" rel="nofollow">http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2&hellip;</a><br />
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I have plenty of issues with GWB's administration and his time management (excessive "brush-clearing" at his ranch), but this doesn't have anything to do with my complaints about him.  I actually admire him for applying himself to a hobby but not making a big deal about it.  There are plenty of people who can't sing trying to do it while drunk, and plenty of writers producing crappy, sex-negative "erotica" in public by comparison.
        
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      <![CDATA[those paintings are fuckin treasures. <br />
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As a reference point check out the work of John Currin [he was widely considered one of the worlds coolest painters like 8 yrs ago] He was/is also a big GWB fan. seriously.
        
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      <![CDATA[There's a story that Nixon told his psychiatrist that when he looked in the mirror, he didn't see anyone there. Now we know what George W sees in the mirror.
        
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      <![CDATA[If any of you out there are considering dabbling in the arts might I suggest you don't because you are all probably untalented and unremarkable.
        
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      <![CDATA[After seeing the paintings, W is a little more round to me. After reading your post, you, Paul, seem like a pretty flat political writer to me.
        
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      <![CDATA[You mean Colin Powell's stance on AIDS funding, which Bush used as a bargaining chip to gain Powell's public endorsement for the illegitimate invasion of Iraq? After mandating that a third of the money had to be spent on abstinence-only programs, which don't reduce HIV infections but was good news anyway for the Bush crony picked to coordinate the program, who also happened to be a former head of a major pharmaceutical company. I'm sure any profit stemming from the AIDS relief money was just a coincidence, even though generic medications were fucking PROHIBITED to have money allotted to them until years later. And in the end, he didn't even give Powell as much funding for the programs as he had promised. Is that the "humanitarian" stance you are talking about? Do you think people just pull shit out of their ass because they like to be pissed off at Bush, or is the simpler explanation that people could see through his self-serving war-mongering profits-above-people bullshit year after year and got tired of the price of his administration costing millions of lives to this day? Some people get tired of sacrificing human lives for white-dude greed. (Oh, sorry, am I "racist" now too?) As for Bush being a humanitarian on AIDS, I guess I will agree that yes, Bush did significantly more than the very least he could do. How noble of him.
        
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      <![CDATA[I imagine that the millions (yes, literally millions) of people that Bush saved in Africa through his leadership in the fight against AIDS might take issue with your claim that he doesn't give a shit about another human being.<br>
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Or are you once again proving yourself to be a shitty person with your claims that Africans aren't human?<br>
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      <![CDATA[Artist Kayti Didriksen would be proud of Bush. They have almost identical styles, and both seem to love painting "43" in the nude. If these are his works (and not some publicity scam to make the family appear retired and complacent), he should stay away from drawing, painting or even looking at German Shepards. Most prison inmates take up art or bad tatooing in one way or another, this does not humanize him, this just confirms his creepiness and detached mannor. I will give him credit for trying something positive with oil for a change. <br>
        
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    <pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2013 15:09:50 -0800</pubDate>
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      <![CDATA[I can't agree that he wanted these paintings 100% private either.  Nobody in their right mind who wants to keep something private puts images of it up on the internet, email or Facebook or no.  He knew there was a fair chance of them being seen by everybody under the sun the instant he made the decision to make them digital.
        
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    <pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2013 15:07:47 -0800</pubDate>
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      <![CDATA[I want him to start seeing himself the way the world sees him, but I want him to do it from his heavily guarded prison cell after his court martial.  The rest of his crew can join him.
        
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      <![CDATA[holy shit, if this isn't an endorsement for more funding of arts education, i don't know what is...
        
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      <![CDATA[I kind of like the George W. Bush paintings, and would be proud to display them in my home, perhaps in the guest bedroom where I wouldn't see them very often.<br />
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      <![CDATA[Gotta agree with #10. He's not a painter, he's a retired dude that seems to enjoy painting. Not all of our extracurricular pursuits need to be pro. Shitting on beginners and hobbyists is barely above yelling out car windows at people.
        
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