Fish in a barrel
I found this highly amusing, even as I found myself a little saddened by my reaction.
Why? Well, I think I've been subscribing the "Bush is an idiot" party line for a little too long. This is not to say that he hasn't made some decisions I've found to be questionable. He has - many times over. Or even to say that he's not a gibbering imbecile. He may well be. All I've come to realise is that I've been accepting other peoples opinions on the matter of George W. Bush's intellectual capacity without any real investigation on my part. It's easy to raise a smile at the all the anti-Bush rhetoric that's been floating around (since, let's face it, that's one great big steaming pile of rhetoric), but it's quite another to pass judgement after a detailed examination of the facts - something I've been lax in doing. I'll certainly try harder.
In future when I call Bush an idiot, I'm damn well going to mean it.
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No, he's not an idiot, just as Vincent "The Chin" Gigante isn't a schizophrenic. He just plays one on TV.
Bush does, after all, have degrees from Harvard and Yale. Even if his acceptance to those schools was mostly predicated upon being the son of a *very* powerful alumnus, there's no way not to have absorbed some of that Ivy League learnin' by osmosis. And Bush plays that "aw shucks, I'm just normal people from Texas" angle for all it's worth. Yeah, just normal people whose daddy was ambassador to China, head of the CIA, president of the United States, and can buy you the Texas Rangers just for fun. Damn, but I wish I was that brand of normal.
While I do believe he is in frightfully over his head (as all but a handful of people would be), getting people to believe he's unintelligent and "misunderestimate" him is one of the cornerstones of his governing strategy. It has served him awfully well thus far. Having said that, he does nonetheless look suspiciously like Sasquatch in that picture...
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