1) If you don't feel any passion in what you do or pursue, be it work, study, love...you are not going to succeed or excel.
That much I know.
2) A-bian and Bush are both at low points of their career...more and more people disapprove of their policies and what they've been doing, in Taiwan and the States, respectively.
What took most Americans so long to realize The Second Iraq War is morally and stratigically wrong?
What took many Taiwanese so long to realize A-bian is nothing but a dishonest and corrupt political clown?
I'd say it's bias, ignorance, stupidity, and lack of ability to do independent and objective analysis.
3) Who done who wrong?
They say in-laws done it to first family. I say first family done it to in-laws.
4) "My richness consists not in the extent of my possessions; but in the fewness of my wants." J. Brotherton