BobW --- "B." <docile_body at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Jon Stewart mentioned that Bush doesn't talk like
> he's
> a moron -- he talks like *you* are a moron.
>
> Aside from whether Bush's being dumb is a
> "comforting
> notion," when you compare Bush's public talks with
> nearly anyone else in politics, and esp. folks like
> Bill Clinton, it's hard not to notice something is
> different about the guy -- that is, when Bush deigns
> to give press conferences, which is a rare thing
> anyway, because of his collisions w/ English. Bush
> openly acknowledges his legacy as a C student. I
> don't
> think he's too bright -- sort of the Howdy Doody
> face
> on a very pernicious agenda that does have a lot of
> legit, though sinister, brain power behind it, in
> the
> form of Bush's handlers, minders, cabinet officers,
> colleagues like Cheney, etc. And the amount of
> official correction on the White House transcripts
> is
> pretty high. Thankfully we live in a YouTube world,
> and they can't edit those. Some news outlets have
> noted that not only is Bush's diction cleaned up on
> paper, sometimes the reporters' questions are
> changed
> in the final record.
>
> -B.
>
>
>
>
> 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."
>
>
>
>
>
>
> "B." <docile_body at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> "That was a good letter. And let's not forget that
> even if we're not at Bush's speeches personally
> we're
> still not not given an opportunity to laugh at them,
> either, because often the White House charitably
> corrects Bush's grammar and pronunciation flubs when
> they type up the official transcript."
>
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