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Originally posted by smooth
I don't see Bush as unintelligent.
Rather, I view his bumblings (such as word mispronounciations and folksy sort of pronouncements) to be a carefully orchestrated manuever to garner maximum support from the population.
Most of the US population is still contained within small, rural cities--between 25,000 and 50,000 people.
There is a prevalent idea among the working class to be skeptical of the educated class--so we see a divide between those living in urban, professional regions and rural, working class regions.
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i butchered your post to only the portions i wanted to respond to because of it's length. my apologies...
in response to the quotes i've cited... i'm disappointed that you seem to making a direct linkage from rural peoples to "bumblings." true, we in the south and plains states do have a distinctive dialect... but it takes no more liberty with proper english than do the dialects found in New York and Boston.
i felt your argument was well-formed and well-articulated... though i think that to a devoted republican the division of society into classes (or social constructs?) such as educated and working is a foreign notion.
i suppose your proposition is plausible and even logical considering the premises on which is it based. i don't agree... but that goes w/out saying these days
