If bush was in the 11th grade, and you were the teacher, what grade would you give him in diplomacy?

Question

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speaking capabilities?
manners?
reading without prompters?

Answer 1

F. Here's the rationale, from a New Yorker story recently (see links, attributtion http://pokerpulse.com/news/viewtopic.php?p=2795#2795)

Millions of Iraqis, spanning the country's religious and ethnic spectrum, welcomed the overthrow of Saddam Hussein. But the mostly young men and women who embraced America's project so enthusiastically that they were prepared to risk their lives for it may constitute Iraq's smallest minority. I came across them in every city: the young man in Mosul who loved Metallica and signed up to be a translator at a U.S. Army base; the DVD salesman in Najaf whose plans to study medicine were crushed by Baath Party favoritism, and who offered his services to the first American Humvee that entered his city. They had learned English from American movies and music, and from listening secretly to the BBC. Before the war, their only chance at a normal life was to flee the country - a nearly impossible feat. Their future in Saddam's Iraq was, as the Metallica fan in Mosul put it, "a one-way road leading to nothing." I thought of them as oddballs, like misunderstood high-school students whose isolation ends when they go off to college. In a similar way, the four years of the war created intense friendships, but they were forged through collective disappointment. The arc from hope to betrayal that traverses the Iraq war is nowhere more vivid than in the lives of those Iraqis. America's failure to understand, trust, and protect its closest friends in Iraq is a small drama that contains the larger story of defeat. (-- p. 57)

I would also add this bit by Herzberg http://pokerpulse.com/news/viewtopic.php?p=2595#2595:

the indispensable help of a complaisant Congress, is the worst in American history or merely the worst of the sixteen who managed to make it into (if not out of) a second full term. That the record is appalling is by now beyond serious dispute. It includes an unending deficit - this year, it's $260 billion - that has already added $1.5 trillion to the national debt; the subcontracting of environmental, energy, labor, and health care policymaking to corporate interests; repeated efforts to suppress scientific truth; a set of economic and fiscal policies that have slowed growth, spurred inequality, replenished the ranks of the poor and uninsured, and exacerbated the insecurities of the the middle class; and, on Capital Hill, a festival of bribery, some prosecutable (such as felonies that have put one prominent Republican member of Congress in prison, while another awaits sentencing), some not (such as the reported two-million-dollar salary conferred upon a Republican congressman who became the pharmaceutical industry's top lobbyist immediately after shepherding into law a bill forbidding the government to negotiate prices for prescription drugs).

In 2002 and 2004, the ruling party avoided retribution for offenses like these by exploiting the fear of terrorism. What is different this time is that the overwhelming failure of the Administration's Iraq gamble is now apparent to all. This war of choice has pointlessly drained American military strength, undermined what had originally appeared to be success in Afghanistan, handed the Iranian mullahs a strategic victory, immunized the North Korean regime from a forceful response to its nuclear defiance, and compromised American leadership of the democratic world. You can read all about it, not only in the government's own recently leaked National Intelligence Estimate, which reports that the Iraq war has intensified the danger of Islamist terrorism, but also in a shelf of books - a score or more of them, beginning two and a half years ago with Richard A. Clarke's "Against All Enemies" and continuing through Bob Woodward's "State of Denial" - that document the mendacity, incompetence, lawlessness, and ideological arrogance surrounding the origins and conduct of that war. (-- p. 45)

Bush is a failure - pass it on!

Answer 2

Diplomacy- A because he is too nice to our enemies.
Speaking- S
Manners- S
Reading without prompters- A
(S is for Satisfactory)

Answer 3

"C" because he took to long we should of just bombed them Afghanistan and Iraq and then ask for a vote not that it mattered.
"B" every body mispronounces a word now and then.
"A" every thing I've seen hes got better manners than I.
"B" prompters are now sorry.
Nice try but think about electing a dem tax, tax, tax, and more tax and that just the first year lol

Answer 4

i would not grade him but send him back to the 6th grade.middle school.where he would learn about history,government,public speaking,and just how deal effectively in making choice decisions.he would definately get an f for language and public speaking.he would definately fail home economics in manners,he is a classic red neck(sorry guys)i would just keep him back for the fact that he is a smug pompous *sshole.as far as his reading goes,i think he is illeterate and he needs to keep his earpiece in his cauliflower ear.

Answer 5

If Bush passed the 10th Grade and made it to the 11th, Daddy must have paid off the teacher.

Answer 6

He has no diplomatic skills at all. F
As a speaker he is abominable. F
He calls anyone that disagrees with him UN-American, manners. F
He seems incapable of reading the simplest sentences out loud. F

Answer 7

I know this isn't what you want to hear but:
Assuming you mean President Bush in the 11th grade; well I don't know how any of his skills were then, and neither do you.
They got him to the level of Presidency, what is your excuse!

Answer 8

A=...don't make promises of action you can't back up WITH action.

Old Texas proverb ..."Treat everybody like a gentleman, but always let the handle of your revolver be seen".

Answer 9

A+ hes done a good job in a hard situation.

Answer 10

A much higher grade than I'm afraid you would receive. You must not do much speaking or you would understand that believability is a extremely important part of speaking.