People continue to insult Bush's intelligence based on his inability to enunciate properly, someone tell me Y?

Question

And please do not say it is because we're still in Iraq. The entire reason we are still in Iraq is to avoid attacks on the U.S. directly, and to avoid terrorist groups getting stronger and doing so. Also, give me something better than 'because Bush is a terrorist and a dictator' because neither are true and you should know better.

Answer 1

It's not just the enunciation it's what he says like this, "If the Iranians were to have a nuclear weapon they could proliferate"--George W. Bush, Washington D.C., March 21, 2006

Answer 2

There is a reasonable expectation among the general public that if an individual graduated from an Ivy League school and went on to get an advanced degree from an Ivy League school than that individual should be able to speak proper English.
George W. Bush is the President of the United States , if despite his blue-blood up bringing and his privileged education , he still has difficulty with the language then out of respect for the people he works for he should have made a serious effort to improve his enunciation and diction.
The inability to enunciate may be cute or colorful when practiced by a county sheriff , but it is scary when practiced by the President.
Whether we like it or not ,we are all judged by how we write and how we speak. I know that you are judging me and that you see my lousy grammar in action. Why should the leader of the free world have to be judged by a lower standard ?
I honestly believe that there is an organic component to Mr.Bush's inability to enunciate, possibly the result of long term alcohol abuse.

Answer 3

Principally because we base our ideas about the self-proclaimed leader of the free world on Greek history, as that is the root of Western democratic ideals. In Greek society, rhetoric, the ability to debate, argue, generally speak persuasively in public, was so important that it was among the compulsory subjects taught to children. President Bush's oratorial skills are very poor. He is clearly reading from an autocue, and thus it embarrasses his peers and citizens because it gives the impression that the USA voted in a complete dolt to the most important job on the planet.

Whether or not this is true simply because the man is not an effective public speaker is not the point. I don't dislike George Bush on the basis that he's not very commanding as a speaker. I dislike him for a hundred other reasons that are nothing to do with his personal abilities.

On the matter of Iraq, please do not be misled into thinking that there is a good, solid, national security-based reason why US soldiers are occupying Iraq. There are lots of reasons, very good and very compelling ones, but I promise you if all the US troops pulled out of Iraq tomorrow, it would make very little difference to anyone other than the massive corporations whose interests and property they are protecting.

Answer 4

The #1 reason I continue to believe the man is an absolute idiot is because he continues to make the same mistakes repeatedly.

Only a moron would continue to ignore the rest of the world's advice, as well as, ignore the MANY advisors on the Iraqi war. Many very highly ranked military officials have been telling him and are still telling him that we needed and still need more troops in Iraq to end this thing. Yet, he continues to ignore them.

How many times can a a moron say 'stay the course' and believe it when the everybody else sees that course is running us off a cliff. At some point, an intelligent person would stop, regroup and alter their strategy.

And just a little FYI for you, we are not in Iraq to deter terrorist attacks here. The opposite it true. The longer we are in Iraq the more terrorist we attract.

Answer 5

This is Y. Its an easy joke for comedians. Everybody likes to think they are smarter then the president. 60% of the country thinks this guy is screwing things up so its a popular topic, his polls are in the crapper. And he just just keeps giving them more ammunition. That's Y

And if you think we would ever be safer by them going into Iraq you can't see the forest through the trees. Everybody who has a brain knew that Iraq was going to be a disaster of an occupation and end in civil war. They(GWB) are not so stupid they didn't know that. What happened is exactly what they wanted to happen. Why don't you think Daddy didn;t "finish" the job. I think this is about artifically inflating the price of oil. These people are making billions. Saddam was pumping too much oil, so were going to shut him down and divide Iraq's oil fields so they can be plundered by corperations under some puppet government.

Answer 6

Look, those people think all republicans lack intelligence, which, I think, says something about THEIR intelligence, but they wouldn't get that. They have to come up with something to explain why they think the President is stupid. I guess that's it. I worked in the inner city for years and many of the people I worked with couldn't enunciate properly, either. I wonder if liberals would consider them lacking in intelligence as well. Of course they wouldn't because liberals do not apply the same rules to everyone, which I believe is a factor in their hypocrisy.

Answer 7

Let's put aside the invasion and terrorism for a while...
Yes, it is for his inability to enunciate. He is a president, the leader of a country. The less he can do is to take lessons to articulate properly and know how to speak in front of people, as he is the face of the country. If he screws it up, others might think, "well, Americans are idiot people who can't even talk properly" and that's not true, but that's the image he shows.

Answer 8

You are parrotting the same line of bull sh it from the administration.
I heard that dumb a s s line during the viet namese war "we must fight in south east asia before we have to fight on our own shores".
Young gullible one - it has been many years since we left Viet nam and not a damn soul from Viet nam has attacked the United States. So take that line of bull sh it somewhere else.
Its not only his pronunciation that is an issue, its his logic that leaves a lot to be desired. And the strange illogical un-American behavior that his administration enshrouds themselves with.
Now today our beloved Rumsfeld came out from behind the smokescreen and denounced public opinion about Bush saying his critics donot understand and are morally confused about the threat we are up against. To that I say,Mr. Rumsfeld the American public has a very respectable level of education. So why are you and Bush unable to articulate that threat to make us understand? The statement that immediately followed from him is that we are being subjected to a "new type of Fascism". - in other words a new boogie man flavor of the month terroist!!!
We are thinking Americans, not the hypnotized ones like you the questioner, who parrots the hypnotist.

And the last straw to show we are not being unfair is when Mr. Bush went to that conference and made an a s s out of himself,with Putin and "Yo" Blair(his lapdog), a russian newspaper said Mr. Bush is not an evil man -He is just stupid..

(By the way: when you grow up, what besides a parrot do you want to be?)

Answer 9

He is a high profile public figure, he should have expected that public speaking was part of the job!!! Hell, my 6 year old is a better conversationalist than Bush!!! Forget enunciating properly, the man cannot finish a complete sentence without uttering the word "uh." I knew the man was a moron before he ever got elected, Iraq is irrelevant in terms of his intelligence!!! Stupid is as stupid does, and no matter how you choose to rationalize his actions, Bush is STUPID!!!! It's embarrassing really!!!!

Answer 10

Enunciation does not equate to intelligence. It has to do with pronouncing a known word correctly. However, Bush was a dim bulb as a student, his own Mother once remarked that Jeb was the smart one of her 3 sons.
There are many in the medical community who, after viewing Bush's televised speeches as Governor of Texas and comparing them with his convoluted screw ups in the present, have drawn the conclusion that he is suffering from some type of damage to his brain cells. a few prominent Doctors who research brain damage due to alcoholism believe this his his problem.
So, maybe he isn't as dumb as he sounds! Just some dead braincells .