And Bill Bixby As George W. Bush.

Long and Pointless Comments from me.

So I'm watching The Andy Griffith Show on TV Land TAGS is still one of my favorite shows because you can learn just about anything in life from it. Anyway on this particular show a young Bill Bixby, a few years before he would be Elvis' sidekick on such award winning movies as Clambake, and years before he would turn into a green Lou Ferrigno if you pissed him off, was speeding and ran a farmer off the road.

When Sheriff Taylor went to give him a ticket and told him he had to spend two days in jail because it was Saturday and the case wouldn't be heard until Monday. Bixby responded do you know who my Dad is? and threatened to have his Dad have the Sheriff fired.

Anyway On Sunday Bixby had to stay with the sheriff because nobody would be in the court house and they are all sitting on the Sheriffs front porch when Opie says Dad you won't get mad if I tell you i busted a window? And Andy responds "No Not if you won't get mad if I tell you that you won't be getting an allowance until that window is paid for.''

Bill Bixby said "Sheriff don't you think you were kind of hard on him? It was just a window why don't you bail him out? Andy though a minute and said If I could "bail him out' but If I do that he is going to get in more and more trouble Now it's just a window tomorrow it will be something bigger and he's got to learn that he can't keep coming to me to bail him out" The Boys busted a window and has stand on his own two feet."

At the end of the show Bixby's Father's Lawyer shows up, he had bought off the farmer and said he was free to go. But Bixby ended up staying in jail. The lawyer asked "What will I tell your Father? Sheriff Taylor responded why don't you tell him the boy busted a window and wants to stand on his own two feet."

This got to me to thinking. What if just once Papa Bush told Opie Bush that he busted the window and had to stand on his own two feet? Imagine How much better the world might be if just once Popie bush didn't bail his worthless son out when he created a giant mess for himself. Maybe...just maybe then Little George wouldn't have grown up to create a giant mess for all of us.

if only just once George Sr. Would have said "sorry Son you have to get out of this one yourself." Then the only danger to the world little George would have been would be screwing up the order at a Waco Wendy's. Maybe That's Why George Bush Jr. Grew up the way he did and Ron Howard grew up the way he did.