W, national icon

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sun Jan 6 08:43:00 PST 2002


The lead article in today's NYT week in review explains why W is our national hero. A choice quote:


>Bruce J. Schulman, the director of American Studies at Boston
>University, argued that Mr. Bush "was never as silly or shallow as
>many people depicted him before." Nonetheless, he said, "It may be
>that certain of his qualities that seemed less than presidential
>before - the inarticulateness, the folksiness, the seeming lack of
>sophistication - now have become badges of things that are
>distinctive and appealing about American society at a time it seems
>under attack."

Bumbling simple-mindedness and parochialism combined with bellicosity - that's the real America!

Doug



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