ext_181677 ([identity profile] nornagest.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] wombat_socho 2008-01-26 05:17 am (UTC)

I think the liberal objection to Bush, at least among the more intelligent liberals out there, is not so much his actual intelligence but the way he presents himself -- he's basically a prep-school boy from Connecticut, but he talks and to some extent acts like a lower-middle-class rural Texan. If I were inclined to see class warfare in everything, I'd say there's probably a sense of betrayal there; since I'm not, however, I'll just say that most liberals don't have very much love for that particular segment of the population. Probably even less for those who weren't born into it but like it anyway.

This doesn't fit well into a punchline, though, so it degenerates into "Bush is a moron" in communication. And to be honest he doesn't strike me as a particularly deep thinker, just a man with good political instincts and a gift for being a one-man wedge issue.

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