[lbo-talk] letter to the editor

Robert Wrubel bobwrubel at yahoo.com
Thu Sep 27 11:36:02 PDT 2007


But what difference does it make whether Bush is stupid or not? What difference did it make that Clinton was glib? Reagan was even stupider than Bush, verbally, and he accomplished far more for the right than Bush has. Bush is merely finishing off the job Reagan started.

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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