March 15, 2004
Bushisms In all fairness to the Scrub, he is not nearly as bad as Dan Quayle. That man could sap the brain power right out of a room.
When I took my CLAST (College Level Academic Skills Test) in the early 90's, the essay question was, "If you could be someone for a day, who would it be, and why?" I wrote that I wanted to be Dan Quayle, because I wanted to know if he really was as stupid as he seemed to be. Then I proceeded to write 2 pages of Quayle jokes. It was glorious.
Oh, and for those interested, I got a perfect score on the essay.
One of my co-workers has one of the desk calendars. She only shares them with me when they are truly scary. Sadly, that's almost everyday.
Quayle has read Machiavelli's Prince
O.M.G.
Hold me. I'm scared.
The nuts are out of the hatch and are running the country.
When I first started reading the link, I thought maybe his speech writers were to blame. Maybe, if they positioned him as a down-home, Will Rogers sort, his wit and wisdom would shine through the rhetoric. For example, "...misunderestimate me", "It's your money. You paid for it.", and "It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it." could be comedic commentaries on various pomposities.
Then, I thought that he does acknowledge that he's dislexic. Maybe if they just let him riff he'd be better able to present his well-reasoned policies based on informed understanding of the issues and knowledge of the facts.
Then, I re-thought and said, "Nah."
(Disclaimer: GWB brought out a visceral antipathy in me from the first time I saw/heard him. I've tried to change that, at least to the extent that I could listen to his speeches, but I failed.)
I was going to pass this up as regular Bush-bashing nonsense, but then I found this:
"First, let me make it very clear, poor people aren't necessarily killers. Just because you happen to be not rich doesn't mean you're willing to kill."
I found it touching.
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