Y'know, maybe Bush deserves that, and maybe he doesn't.
I'd be more inclined to agree with the "Bush is an idiot" crowd, if pretty much the same identical thing weren't consistently said about Ford, Reagan, Bush Sr., and Quayle.
Interesting how it's only Republicans over the last 30 years who are consistently portrayed as idiots. It seems like a consistent payback against any Republican who dares to get elected.
And also interesting that the press that paints this idiot portrayal is over 80% liberal/Democrat.
Coincidence?
So none of these pearls of wisdom emanating from Bush's lips has anything to do with Bush being perceived as an idiot, eh? It's all the "liberal media's" fault. You don't even take into account that the so called "liberal media" rarely if at all ever calls him on his twisting and skewering of the facts and of the english language. Again, a desire to blame it all on some evil wicked liberal conspiracy that controls ALL MEDIA
I believe I said clearly "about 80%" of the media, and I believe that clearly states something very different from "ALL the media" as you allege that I said. And slapped on the "paranoid" label while you were at it. More liberal namecalling, a consistent liberal tactic, to caricature and discredit through underhanded labels, rather than the facts.
...among many other links, on other topics. There is no shortage of numbers and documentation of liberal distortion of the news.
Currently, I'm reading the book Bias by former 28-year CBS correspondent Bernard Goldberg, deconstructing the manufacture of the news by the media elite.
Explaining how sympathetic/crusading/partisan liberal reporting distorts the true facts of issues such as homelessness and AIDS, reporting unchallenged the data given by special interest advocates, while simultaneously giving extreme skepticism to any perspectives that fall outside their oh-so-enlightened superior liberal beliefs of the causes and solutions to these issues.
And anyone who disagrees is labelled a racist, or narrow minded or backwards, or heartless. Well, maybe they're just right !
And I don't mean just politically Right.
Interesting how "homelessness" began as an issue the split second Reagan took office in 1981, and was heavily reported under Bush Sr. as well. But lo and behold, as soon as Clinton was elected, reporting of homelessness virtually ceased to exist.
AIDS [liberal spin: ] was caused by Reagan's heartless lack of funding, not by promiscuous gays, I.V. drug users and prostitutes.
And cases where AIDS was transmitted to heterosexuals through secretly bisexual partners, secretly I.V.-drug-using partners, and secretly prostitute-using partners, are distortedly categorized as "heterosexual transmission" cases, thus vastly exaggerating the true number of heterosexual cases, and manufacturing a vastly large number of "heterosexually transmitted" cases.
And of course, as a consistent theme, the ultimate conclusion of liberal reporting is to simply blame it all on the Republicans.
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As I've said ad infinitum, I didn't vote for G.W.Bush, he wasn't my choice. But while he's President I support him. I would have supported Gore as President even though I didn't vote for him either. (Once again, I voted for Ralph Nader. )
I supported the 1994 war in Haiti as in our interest (and even more so, Haiti's), I similarly supported intervention in Bosnia, Kosovo, and Somalia ( all wars on Clinton's watch). And I was furious Clinton, motivated by polls and self-serving cowardice, pulled out of Somalia, instead of following through and doing the job right.
Regarding G.W. Bush's quotes --as I've said several times here on the boards-- Gore, Clinton and other Democrats have similarly said some absurdly stupid things, that Rush Limbaugh and others have pointed out. When the cameras are on you every moment you step outside, no one is is eloquent every moment of every day. And in those circumstances, everyone has said one stupid thing or another.
But even saying that, I have no problem agreeing G.W. Bush is certainly not the most articulate president we've ever had.
