September 25, 2007

A publisher I know once told me that most really wealthy and powerful people are smart enough to know that it pays vast dividends beyond the cost of salaries to treat their employees well, especially in the age of tell-all books. And then, there are those like the Bushes....

ga_otj_james_war_protest.jpg SF Gate:

Pool boys are supposed to conduct torrid affairs with lonely pool owners. James Razsa has passionate feelings about his client, but not the kind likely to turn romantic.

Razsa cleans former President George H.W. Bush's pool, in Kennebunkport, Maine.

An enduring American figure, the pool boy has long stood for one lowly half of the nation's class gulf. When the pool owner happens to have been the most powerful man on the planet, and the pool boy happens to be one of the planet's great despisers of power, the metaphor explodes into 1,000 points of light.

"If every American had to pool-boy for these people for a day, you'd have a revolution on your hands," is how he sees things. Read on...

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