Dubya: Explained

Part of what will sooner-than-deservedly be seen as former President George W. Bush's "quirk" was that his backstory seemed to fit so neatly into a classical template: The late-blooming WASP blueblood screw-up who rose high and fell hard trying to live up to the dynastic standard.

All the pieces were there: Cold, distant relationship with patriarch, prologned adolescence, supplementing of religious-devotion for alcoholism, mangetic-pull toward daddy figures... and now, thanks to his book and pending interview with Matt Lauer, we have the final one: Traumatic experiences with seemingly-derranged mother that he doesn't seem to realize were borderline-abusive.

Seriously... that's the sort of thing you see in the "origin story" flashback in a slasher movie. Ick.