One impressive passage from a press conference: When a journalist asked GWB a question regarding the Guantanamo prisoners, he responded with: “All I know is that these are very bad people”. No lanhuage erros here but what an educated answer!

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The word “nucleus” is, IIRC, an irregular diminutive of the Latin nux, or nut. The regular form of the diminutive, though, would be “nuculus”.

Just throwing off a guess like that, without having done the research strikes me as, well, the product of a lazy and uninquiring mind.

He is just repeating what he’s heard others say, and trying to pass it off as fact. It is a commonly-used artifice of whichever segment of the political spectrum happens to find itself out of popular favor at the time; used by both “flavors”.

Remember The Gingrich crowd during the Clinton era? They alsmost invented the talking-points mantra of “Say it often enough and it becomes truth.” I seem to remember that James Carville perfected it, however.

I can’t tell you how many times that I heard Gingrich and Carville say the opposite thing, repeatedly, as if it were gospel truth, and also in the tone of “My respected opponent must be an absolute idiot for disagreeing with me.”

Back on topic. I’m Southern. I’m not stupid–that I know of. One of the most entertaining things that I’ve ever heard was a happily un-reconstructed Brooklynite whom I worked with telling me how stupid that Southerners were, and how you could tell that just by listening to them “tawk”. He said that in a near-incoherent dialect. He wasn’t stupid either, just ignorant of the issue at hand.

On a lighter note, we used to really enjoy playing poker with fellows who were new to the South, and who also believed the language stereotype that they had heard all of their lives. 🙂

Just throwing off a guess like that, without having done the research strikes me as, well, the product of a lazy and uninquiring mind.

I bet Bush slays himself everyday to realize that he has to clean up his father’s messes. Most people can’t see this because most people don’t see Bush as a person, and that is quite fatal for the enemies of Bush. A weakness I would have taken full advantage of.

In the few years I spent in academia it could be *really* frustrating that I was assumed retarted. It was funny sometimes when I was, patiently, explained how the software and algorthms I wrote worked (along, sometimes, with quotes from papers I wrote). It was comical to see people’s faces when they found out my name after a 45 minute patronising speech. Even then a large amount of people that are from large northeastern universities would never accept me, regardless of what I did (it was hard to get more credentials than one of my bosses, yet he was not accepted in some academic circles).

Much as my writing (I’m dyslexic – spelling is difficult) my accent is considered “stupid”. For the most part I’ve learned to live with it, even find quite a bit of amusement from it. People who I think count rarely hold any of it against me. The vast majority have dealt with other accents, other people with some minor learning disability, etc and make thier decision based on the substance of what I say, not how I say it or spell it.

It’s not that much different than people who look at an African American and think “Stupid” – both are based on something none of us can help and are simply a fact of where (and from whom) we were born. Except that some prejudices are still ok, some are still even right and proper to a group of people. Most of the amusement I find is like some of the above who can’t accept it, but I bet they feel they are quite un-prejudiced and see people for what they are, I’ve seen it to much to be angered by it anymore.