Maggie's Farm

I know the pres has impressed few folks--but ya gotta give him 2 out of 3. A conservative prez has the three big issues--war & peace, economy, and gov't spending. First two at least, he's been i think very good, considering the oppo (both Democrat & terrorist).

So true--as much as we'd rather deny it--because in a rational world it wouldn't be so--movies are simply very powerful attitude adjusters.

As far as Bush's speaking abilities, he sounds GREAT to my ears. But i have--everyone around here has--the same sound, the same rhythm & tone, the same so-called "Texas lateral extension" (aka hick-ass accent).

In fact, everyone around here walks and stands and gestures the same way as he does.

So we have a hard time understanding the pervasive national/world disappointment with his communication skills.

However, it does advance a theory of mine, that someone who looks/sounds/acts rustic just won't be taken seriously no matter what anymore, in the brave new image-flooded world. Most of our presidents would not get elected today, tho many of our male models & actors would.

But anyway, so Bush attracts this ancient cellular reaction, the disdain and contempt for the faker, the usurper, or the pretender.

Experiment--after listening to one his speeches, go to the white house site and read it--and see if it is totally different than what your eyes and ears just told you. Betcha it is.

And I'm no PC accent-angel--Hillary's midwest whatever the hell it is grates on my eardrums like catclaws on a blackboard.

it's not the midwest accent itself, it's the way she adds the nasal twang to it. that voice will cost her votes. No one who can't stand it is gonna want to listen to it for 4 or 8 years.

In the same way that some on the left and right coasts can't tolerate listening to GWB anymore.

Yeh--you're probably right.

It's in the gravitas--a level deeper than the one i was waxing on about.

Likely has to do with the accumulated debris of BDS, and functions via the sense that, a really good leader would've found a way to finesse it (the BDS, i mean).

But if i may infinitely regress the logic, it is also possible that the BDS has always been beyond his or anyone else's control, and that this is why it has been so effective in diminishing his stature.

But then, yes, it would not have been so, had only he been more this, or that, or less that, or this.

And so on.

"Bush Derangement Syndrome", AP.

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=EGLC,EGLC:2006-42,EGLC:en&q=Bush+Derangement+Syndrome

Good way to put it, Luther. BDS as a receiver glitch that lowers the signal-to-noise ratio of the speaker, regardless of the transmitter output level.