W. has worked hard to cultivate his image as a good old, plain-speaking boy. How many other men raised in Connecticut, Maine, and Washington DC say "dee-uhnt" as a contraction for "did not"? He had to have taught himself to say it that way to "fit in" as a Texan. How many Yalie's still mispronounce "nuclear," even after they've been poked fun at in book titles for it?
According to my poll, 49% of the country thinks he's a complete idiot and a liar, and 49% thinks he's a genius and a hero. I think people in both groups are lacking horse sense. Bill Javier Valencia wrote: > You realize of course that this is another "urban legend" passed around to > make the president sound stupid; the funny part is that he no only has a > higher IQ than the "French" looking John Kerry (according to tests taken at > Harvard and on the Standardized Military IQ test) but he also had better > grades than Kerry did at Harvard, go figure...
