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This just in: George WTF Bush is still a complete moron.
You know who he reminds me of? He reminds me of all the self-important schmucks running around in short sleeves and brown clip-on ties managing fast food restaurants and mall stores. If his last name wasn’t Bush, he would be managing a Dairy Queen or Buster Brown right now. Badly, at that.
January 31st, 2006 at 11:08 am
And he’d be the only Dairy Queen manager with an MBA from Harvard.
I wonder, though, why is there this need to call him stupid? Obviously he’s not. Bad speaker, no question, but stupid? No. What kind of psychological reasons could there be for people who disagree with someone to insist on labeling that person a moron?
I think maybe TV hasn’t helped Bush. Like I said before, he’s a terrible speaker, but if you read transcripts of interviews with him and you don’t think of his voice and odd mannerisms when you read it, you’d be surprised at the depth of knowledge and the insight he displays. Just try a few of these:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A12570-2005Jan15?language=printer
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,22649-1674668,00.html
http://www.antiwar.com/news/?articleid=2481
January 31st, 2006 at 1:20 pm
I disagree with what you said and I definitely dont think you are a moron.
My disagreement with him is besides the point. I disagreed with quite a few things Malcolm X said in speeches. Not a moron, though.
I disagree with almost everything Ruxh Limbaugh has ever uttered. Not a moron.
George WTF Bush is a moron. Those interviews seem pretty smooth because he is given the questions in advance. These aren’t off the cuff replies. Read this.
I contend that when you see him in debates and such, that is the real George WTF Bush. Which makes him a moron.
Not to mention that he hasn’t gotten one damn thing right in the last 6 years. Not one. Which makes him an even bigger moron.
February 2nd, 2006 at 10:28 am
So you’re basically saying that your main criterion for judging a person’s intelligence is how well-spoken he/she is? Paul Krugman isn’t terribly impressive when you hear him speak, but he’s obviously intelligent (oh, by the way, have you listened to this? It’s pretty funny.) Actually, now that I think about it, the majority of the smartest people I know don’t seem terribly impressive when you talk to them. The smartest guy I know, when I first met him, I seriously thought he was mentally handicapped.
Now, I’m not saying that GW is really some sort of intellectual whose amazing brain capacity makes it difficult for him to correspond with a normal person, but I’m saying that he’s obviously bright enough to have gotten degrees from Harvard and Yale and to be an extremely successful businessman and politician. And, according to some, he has a higher IQ than John Kerry.
February 2nd, 2006 at 2:31 pm
His ability to speak is only a small part of my criticisms of him. I find his constant inability to convey simple ideas smoothly very irritating, but not the only thing that defines him as a moron.
His administration is what I think is the real thing that defines him as such. I don’t agree with anything that he has done. Not one thing that I can think of. I don’t agree with the way it is run. I don’t agree to his claim of the unitary executive power whilst fighting an unending war of his own invention. I don’t agree with his political agenda. But my disagreement doesn’t make him a moron.
But no one single thing he has done has turned out well for average Americans. Not one. The war is being fought by us and the soldiers are our friends and realtives. The economy they always tout as being so strong is only strong because corporations are raking in ungodly amounts of money without raising wages for us. So middle-class Americans are essentially in a recession. His Medicare fiasco is a joke. It is insuring less people for more money. His Social Security crap was unbelievably stupid. The only way one could think that was a good idea is if we believe in George Bush’s motto of “every man for himself”. I don’t. I believe Americans are a team. My team. If he doesn’t want to be a part of it then fine. We don’t need him.
We don’t need him. Or anyone like him.
He is a self-proclaimed drunkard who failed upwards his entire life. If his name wasn’t Bush he wouldn’t have gotten anywhere or done anything of value. Every business he ever ran did poorly and then got bought up for enormous profits by extremely rich people who owed the Bush’s some favors.
You seem impressed by his credentials from Yale and Harvard. But you forget that at Yale, Bush was a legacy. He got preferential admission because of his father and grandfather. Hell, Yale’s library has a Prescott Walker Bush wing. He would’ve studied in that (assumably) whilst a student there. He was a C student.
And how many other C students are in Harvard’s MBA program? Either A)there are many and it’s not as impressive as one thinks or B)he was among the minority that are there for reasons other than their smarts. I vote B.
I could go on and on. But let’s just leave it at this: George WTF Bush is a complete moron.
February 2nd, 2006 at 3:04 pm
So, do you think you’d be a C student at Yale? I know I wouldn’t. I definitely would have flunked out (which Dick Cheney, the great puppetmaster and the “real evil genius” in the Bush admin., did.) Also, I don’t know why Harvard would have accepted him if he didn’t have some sort of merit. I only personally know a few people who have gone there or are going there, and a friend of mine was a visiting professor there, but they are, without exception, the brightest people I know. But I think the more interesting thing is that, when you talked about him attending Harvard, your first instinct is to say that perhaps Harvard’s business school isn’t that great after all. You’re presented with a piece of evidence that runs counter to your intuition, and you instantly reshape the facts to agree with what you already believe. I know it’s rude to psychoanalyze someone else’s motives, but I often find myself doing the exact same thing when I’m presented with something that proves Democrats aren’t all incompetent, bureaucracy-loving Vogons.
As for his policy decisions, nearly all of them are at least defensible. I don’t like the spending (especially the Medicare entitlement), but I also think that when you compare the spending to the size of our economy, it’s not quite as horrific as many would make it seem. But you don’t agree with even one thing? What about invading Afghanistan? The $500 tax rebate? Anything? How can anyone be wrong 100% of the time? Isn’t that like getting a zero on the SAT? If you think that he’s always wrong, doesn’t that betray a bias on your part to always assume that he has made a bad decision, regardless of the facts at hand?
But, I guess, in the end, you thinking Bush is a moron, or me thinking he’s at least reasonably intelligent isn’t really going to change much of anything, so I’ll stop arguing.
Oh, one last thing. If I had the ability to opt out of Social Security, I would do so in a heartbeat. I could put my money in a savings account and make a much better return.
February 3rd, 2006 at 3:30 am
I disagree with your depiction of my logic. I didn’t denigrate Harvard’s MBA program at all. I think it is most likely a fantastic one. I’m saying that I believe average students (which Bush most definitely was) don’t get in there on smarts. So it wasn’t his brains that got him in. Period. You used his degrees from Harvard and Yale as proof of intelligence. I think his admission to both was a result of family wealth and power.
The $500 tax rebate is something I disagree with also. Sure, I don’t mind $500 in my pocket. But you need to spend $500 less for each person you send the money to. Otherwise it is not a tax cut so much as a tax deferral. By the time I finally do have to pay it, it will be much more than $500. That’s just plain bad economics.
I agreed with the invasion of Afghanistan. It has been so poorly handled though, you can write the whole thing off. If that is the best he and his subordinates can do, he should have left everyone home.
February 3rd, 2006 at 10:01 am
Good to know. Also, I really appreciate your graciousness when faced with someone who disagrees with you. Thanks for that.