I came across this article on Kentucky.com, and when I read the title, "Bush Admits Misgivings About Famed Phrases," I immediately thought of the words he doesn't know how to pronounce, like terror (which, to me, sounds like "Tara" in Gone With the Wind), or "strategery", and decided to see how many of these the AP came up with.
Actually, it touches more on "Bring 'em on", "Wanted: Dead or Alive", and other phrases that just make him look like an idiot. He calls it plain speaking. Anyway, he now says "Sometimes, words have consequences you don't intend them to mean." So, is this the end to his "plain speaking"? I doubt it. I'm sure he'll find a new way to say democracy or inauguration.
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Someone along the line (probably Karl Rove) told him that plainspoken wins elections, that it makes him more appealing to "regular people," as if regular people can't wrap their minds around deeply intellectual ideas.
I think they can, but that they're just lazy, which is why they voted...again....for George W. Bush. To borrow an oft-used phrase from the debates, governing is "hard work." Monica Lewinsky aside, I'd still rather have my old Rhodes Scholar at the wheel than the Texas Cowboy we have right now.
But somewhere in the 2000 campaign and on into his first term, intellectualism became a synonym for "out of touch." Right wing radio hosts rail daily against "pinhead academics," as if there was ever such a thing as being too informed.
Sadly, it seems the days of Presidents surrounding themselves with the best and the brightest are gone for a while.
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