Funny, I pegged him as a D&D fan
Since most of his plans are rooted in fantasy.
Maureen Dowd from behind the Times firewall:
To this dedicated player, we are all just pieces on the game board, to be moved and sacrificed, all for the glory of him being able to say in the end "I win!"
(Filed at State of the Day)
Maureen Dowd from behind the Times firewall:
W. always acts like he’s upping the ante in a board game where you roll the dice and bet your plastic army divisions on the outcome. This doesn’t surprise some of his old classmates at Yale, who remember Junior as the riskiest Risk player of them all, known for dropping by the rooms of friends, especially when they were trying to study for exams, for extended bouts of “The Game of Global Domination.”
Junior was known as an extremely aggressive player in the venerable Parker Brothers board game, a brutal contest that requires bluster and bluffing as you invade countries, all the while betraying alliances. Notably, it’s almost impossible to win Risk and conquer the world if you start the game in the Middle East, because you’re surrounded by enemies.
His gamesmanship extended to sports — he loved going into overtime and demanding that points be played over because he wasn’t quite ready.
As Graydon Carter recollects in the new Vanity Fair, Gail Sheehy wrote an article for the magazine about W. that made this point: “Even if he loses, his friends say, he doesn’t lose. He’ll just change the score, or change the rules, or make his opponent play until he can beat him.”
To this dedicated player, we are all just pieces on the game board, to be moved and sacrificed, all for the glory of him being able to say in the end "I win!"
(Filed at State of the Day)
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