Bush’s verbal gaffes are no longer a laughing matter.

[0rion]

By Gerald Rellick

At a bill signing ceremony in the White House on August 5, George Bush pulled off his latest verbal gaffe. Captured on film and shown worldwide, as well as on Jay Leno, Bush remarked with his patented smirk, "Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we."


The same day I read this, I had just finished an article by Charley Reese, Vote for a Man, Not a Puppet, written in May. Reese, a staunch conservative and formerly a columnist with the Orlando Sentinel, writes, “It’s no wonder the president avoids press conferences like the plague. Take away his cue cards and he can barely talk. Americans should be embarrassed that an Arab king (Abdullah of Jordan) spoke more fluently and articulately in English than our own president at their joint press conference recently.”

Bsh's verbal gaffes are no longer a laughing matter

[Worst Username Ever]

1. Also a poll on the same page

[ClintonTyree]

2. The Cons.................

used to think America was the laughing stock of the world because Clinton got a BJ. The world could have cared less, they couldn't see what all the fuss was about.
Bush on the other hand is a total embarrassment for our country, the world loathes him but the Cons think he's the greatest representative for our country, ever.
This only fortifies our assertion that the Cons are mindless drones that don't know their asses from their elbows.

[0rion]

3. Bush is dumb as a post.

It was funny when Clinton was on the Leno show and Leno said it made us "nostalgic for the days when Presidents could speak....."

[olddem43]

4. Well, the jokes were a lot funnier then -

since they were about sex instead of how dumb the pres. is.

[juineve]

17. ...

really it's a rather messed up marriage between fundamentalism and neoconservatism... how that comes to be is beyond me, sigh.

[Skittles]

5. they've never been a laughing matter to me

I cringe every time I hear that illiterate bastard speak.

[auburngrad82]

9. I just want a President that at least appears to be smarter than me

[otohara]

6. America the brave has become America the afraid

and it seeks comfort in the known and familiar, just as the abused wife futilely seeks comfort in her abuser.


Great article -

[Swede]

7. Did you see him in Florida say "Cali--Florida"

What a boob.

[glitch]

13. We're gonna bounce that boobie

come November!

[kskiska]

8. The Chimp keeps saying he says what he means

and means what he says. Kerry should use this quote as an example of that.

[hatrack]

10. I don't want a president who's "comfortable in his own skin"

I want a president who's really smart and who works really hard.

I want a president who can string eight or ten words together in order to coherently answer a question, not one who stumbles around in the rank underbrush of the English language to avoid one.

I want a president who's paid some dues and has substantially earned his/her position in life, not one who's coasted there on name, money and connections.

That's not too much to ask, is it?

[Andromeda]

18. "Comfortable in his own skin"

is just psycho-babble. It really means that Chimpy is as dumb as a post but he doesn't care what people think of his "plainspoken ways."

[colonel odis]

19. yet he's not the least bit "comfortable in his own skin."

he's a pile of dysfunction. it's tortured, shaped, and will eventually ruin his life. raised by a bitch of a mother, anxious for the affection of an absent father, not allowed to grieve for a dead sister, rebellion, alcoholism, touches of sadism, a mean streak as long as the state of texas. he's about as comfortable in his own skin as a snake.

[Hoping4Change]

11. Brilliant point "Do they believe that stupidity pays some dividend?

"So who are these people who still support Bush for four more years of dis-service to this country? Do they believe that stupidity pays some dividend in the end?"

[Disturbed]

12. Anti-intellectualism

Anti-intellectualism


"Anti-intellectualism is found in every nation on earth. Americans, among others, have been accused quite vocally of suffering from it, particularly by the liberal literati both in the USA and in Europe. Such accusations are particularly fueled by existence of the political schism between the Republican and Democratic parties which prompt the less scrupulous contenders on both sides use it as a term of abuse for their opponents. By comparison societies in Europe and Asia are much more politically homogenous.

Historically, anti-intellectualism did play a prominent role in American culture. Some of it originated from the commonly held view among conservative Christians of old that education subverts morality and religious belief. The validity of this view, in fact, was well substantiated by the spread of atheism and Deism among the educated during the Enlightenment. Hence, for instance, the New England Puritan writer John Cotton wrote in 1642 that "The more learned and witty you bee, the more fit to act for Satan will you bee."

A much more important historical source of anti-intellectualism has been the 19th century popular culture. At the time when the vast majority of the population was involved in manual labor, bookish education, which at the time focused on classics, was seen to have little value. It should be noted that Americans of the era were generally very literate and, in fact, read Shakespeare much more than their present day counterparts. However, the ideal at the time was an individual skilled and successful in his trade and a productive member of society; studies of classics and Latin in colleges were generally derided in popular culture. Anti-intellectual folklore values the self-reliant and "self-made man," schooled by society and by experience, over the intellectual whose learning was acquired through books and formal study. A character of O'Henry has noted that once a graduate of an East Coast college gets over being vain, he makes just as good a cowboy as any other young man."

More...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-intellectualism

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

14. Ignorance is bliss?

* must be one happy fellow.

[Gyre]

16. Very interesting. Thanks!

Gyre

[0rion]

15. Everyone say it with me......NUCULER......

LOL