<p>Nearly a third of “the people” think Bush was behind 9/11. I think it is safe to say that about 50% of “the people” are idiots.</p>
<p>“Haven’t had too many intellectuals in the White House for a while have we? The last couple more prominent ones that I can think of were FDR and Wilson.”</p>
<p>Clinton was a Rhodes Scholar and Jimmy Carter went to one of the service academies. I think they were both pretty smart. (Though in the latter case - I’m not sure intelligence was beneficial for being a great president.)</p>
<p>One supported death squads in Chile and Argentina, and sent torture equipment and trained torturers for the Shah of Iran; the other one killed half a million children under the age of five.</p>
<p>Where is Warren G. Harding now that we need him?</p>
<p>Stay the course.</p>
<p>Let them eat their children.</p>
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<p>i find it more interesting that he never was a stay the course kind of guy…curious that</p>
<p>About 90% of anything that he does to make him look stupid is part of a pretty elaborate act. Mannerisms, speech, etc. The other 10% is made up of things like policies and decisions. That’s just unfortunate.</p>
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According to dictionary.com smug means, “contentedly confident of one’s ability, superiority, or correctness; complacent.” Yes, smug is precisely the word to describe comments like those of the OP who wrote, “Just wait until he learns how to send e-mail fwds…” I guess I could have said, “smart-as#” but that would not have been as polite even though it might have been more accurate.</p>
<p>Your suggestion that the President has some learning disablity is baseless.</p>
<p>I do think Clinton was extremely smart, but unfortunately he was mediocre in other areas. And Carter…I just don’t know about the peanut farmer. Nice man, but I seem to remember gas lines and paying 19% for my first home loan during the Carter years. FDR…I’m partial to him since we share the same birthday…but then so does Dick Cheney…hehe!</p>
<p>I’ll defend Bush on one thing, he did live the bulk of his years prior to college in West Texas and in Houston. So the accent is legit, though I think he lays it on pretty thick. My family have lived in Texas since the days of the Alamo, even fought at the battle of San Jac…and none of us twang nearly as much as good old George W.</p>
<p>Some “folks” are more susceptible to the Texas twang than others so I don’t think you can say for certain that GWB’s is purposely enhanced. </p>
<p>I crack up every time I read the title of this thread. hehe!</p>
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Since when do you get to decide where someone is from.</p>
<p>President Bush was born in New Haven Conn. He grew up in Midland and Houston, Texas. He graduated from Yale in 1968 and then served in the Texas National Guard until he went to Harvard Business School. After graduating from HBS in 1975 he worked in the oil and gas industries until 1986, when he got involved in his father’s successful 1988 presidential campaign. He returned to Texas and was elected governor there in 1994. He became the first Governor in Texas history to be elected to consecutive 4-year terms when he was re-elected on November 3, 1998. When he goes on vacation (to the extent a President is ever on vacation), he goes to his ranch in Texas. He clearly views his home as Texas and for you to suggest he is not from Texas is foolish.</p>
<p>True about the accent PrimetimeMom…and that Texas twang varies dramatically between West Texas, East Texas, the Valley, the Gulf Coast, etc… All are different. In our family, we laugh and laugh at one aunt who hails from the Big Thicket area…we think she has the funniest accent ever…lol!</p>
<p>“Since when do you get to decide where someone is from.”</p>
<p>Ah fur wun never sed where the he was frum. Yessiree, ah did sey he did a gradwuate from the Yaell, all raght, ind his daddee did come from the Koneticut, ind ahm shure that ther fect that he dont tark no good is not a reflexion on his the intelleyjens. Efta all, he is a yusin the google, ain’t ee?</p>
<p>But if yaw tellin me that ther accint is a Texas twang thingee, ah gess ahm in no pozishun to argew.</p>
<p>What I don’t get is putting so much time and effort into what one writes here when no more than a handful of people bother to read whatever the thoughts are that are being espoused.</p>
<p>What kind of person has the time or inclination to write post #32? You’re writing for an audience of what 10? 15? maybe 20 people?</p>
<p>"Since when do you get to decide where someone is from.</p>
<p>President Bush was born in New Haven Conn. He grew up in Midland and Houston, Texas. He graduated from Yale in 1968 and then served in the Texas National Guard until he went to Harvard Business School. After graduating from HBS in 1975 he worked in the oil and gas industries until 1986, when he got involved in his father’s successful 1988 presidential campaign. He returned to Texas and was elected governor there in 1994. He became the first Governor in Texas history to be elected to consecutive 4-year terms when he was re-elected on November 3, 1998. When he goes on vacation (to the extent a President is ever on vacation), he goes to his ranch in Texas. He clearly views his home as Texas and for you to suggest he is not from Texas is foolish."</p>
<p>To say he grew up in Texas is flawed, he spent his high school years at a Massachusetts boarding school. Basically from age 14 to 22, he was in New England. His ranch is not a working ranch, and during his first, unsuccessful campaign, he announced to a crowd of farmers that it was the first time he had ever been on a real farm before. He is not a typical, homegrown Texan. He very much desired to appear like one.</p>
<p>As a politician, he is absurd. Historians will ponder for decades just how the hell he pulled all this off. He ran for Texas governor reluctantly, he wanted to be baseball commissioner.</p>
<p>If Bush has a Presidential library, will any of us get to see what’s in it?</p>
<p>if bush really wasn’t this good 'ol boy that people seem to hate, why wouldn’t he have just dropped the act after getting elected a 2nd time. He obviously won’t be seeking another office after this term, and wouldn’t it have just been easier to “be himself” rather than keep up this act for the rest of his public life?</p>
<p>dyslexia can run in families-
a brother is dyslexic
but possibly he has presenile dementia not a language disabilty
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<p>Im sorry that some apparently feel that a learning difference is equated with unintelligence - it isn’t a judgement call- but for several years, Bush makes language related errors often when speaking- since there is a apparently a contrast from his speech as governor, its certainly possible that something organic is going on</p>
<p>I have one last comment on the accent. </p>
<p>My FIL grew up in east Texas. He sounds a lot like GWB, but I grew up in So Cal, and all Texans sound alike to me. He spent some of his young adult years in West Texas. He hasn’t lived in Texas for 50 years, and he still sounds like he should be wearing a cowboy hat and boots. Oops, he DOES wear a cowboy hat and boots. You can take the man out of Texas, but you can’t take the Texas out of the man. My husband spent part of elementary school in Texas, but has no discernible accent unless he’s irritated about something – then I hear the accent.</p>
<p>Mini, didn’t they teach you any manners at Williams? Maybe they do a better job of that at Yale.</p>
<p>my mom grew up in Texas, left when she was 22, no accent at all</p>
<p>“Mini, didn’t they teach you any manners at Williams? Maybe they do a better job of that at Yale.”</p>
<p>I would have thought it unmannerly to suggest that folks say things that they never did. (I have no opinion whether Mr. Sleaze should be considered a Texan or not.) But, heck, if you don’t like my manners, you are welcome to spend more time on the Google.</p>