> The United States is being led by a lowbrow from the upper-crust ghetto,
> largely unaware of culture - high, pop and maybe even yogurt - a forthcoming
> biography of President Bush says.
>
> New York Times reporter Frank Bruni, who was assigned to cover Bush during
> the 2000 presidential campaign and the first eight months of Bush's
> presidency, describes the 43rd President of the United States as affable and
> good-natured, but shallow and largely clueless about many aspects of the
> culture of the nation he heads.
Wow, I loved the Schumer/Clinton piece in the December NYT Magazine, but...
This book's approach to political discourse, ridicule, will make it easier for people to vote for 43 in 2004 and for JBush in 2008. Ridicule helped Reagan throughout his career.
Better would be a book explaining how 43 managed to get three high profile Governors, Whitman, Thompson, and Ridge, working in dead-end jobs in his administration. How did he defeat a genuine war hero to win the nomination of the war party? I'd like a good answer to how as Governor, he worked things out with Texas Democrats so that they continued to run the state while he went after the nomination. If success is the measure, he seems to be a talented politician, usually getting much more than he gives.
43 has had so much more practice at dealing with attacks on his being the grandson of a Senator, son of a President, and having Andover-Yale-HBS-oil-baseball-politics trajectory than any of his attackers, that he probably yawns when he hears this kind of stuff.
Chris