[lbo-talk] letter to the editor

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Thu Sep 27 08:16:33 PDT 2007


Robert Wrubel wrote:
>
> In defense of Bush, or warning against the comforting
> belief that he's a moron, almost every national
> politican uses phrases like "national interest",
> "strong defense", "progress", "the American people",
> without having the vaguest notion of what they're
> talking about. Or knowing full well they're talking
> about nothing.

Eisenhower's terrible sloppiness of diction and syntax was _deliberate_; he even told his press secretary once that if an announcement caused a lot of flak not to worry, he would dumb it up and confuse everyone.

I am increasingly suspecting that is the same with Bush.

Carrol



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