SOTU ("Drink! Drink! Drink!")

Carl Remick carlremick at hotmail.com
Wed Jan 29 12:18:08 PST 2003



>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
>
>Carrol Cox wrote:
>
>>I strongly recommend Patricia A. Dunn, _Leaning Re-Abled: The Learning
>>Disability Controversy and Composition Studies_, Boynton/Cook Pub.,
>>1995. There is a certain incoherence involved in on the one hand endless
>>wailing about "Leninist" elitism and on the other hand inability to
>>resist the temptation to sneer at the intellectual capacity of others,
>>whether they are presidents or conficts.
>
>Oh come on. This guy is the beneficiary of the most expensive education
>money can buy - Andover, Yale, Harvard. He grew up in extreme privilege,
>with strings pulled for him at every turn. Without that protection, he
>could well be in jail. Yet despite that pampered background, he's pig
>ignorant. Combine that level of ignorance with a bellicose temperament and
>an imperial arsenal, and you have a serious threat to humanity.

My problem with Bush isn't that he is inarticulate. He may communicate mainly by grunts and gestures, but he is all too successful in getting his points across.

Carl

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