Molly Ivins (The Progressive): Not Bright Enough (must read)

[Dudley_DUright]

Gosh, it was good to hear from President Bush's alternative universe in the State of the Union address. "Jobs are on the rise."

As we say in Texas, "No shit?"

At the December rate of 1,000 new jobs a month, it would take 166 years just to replace the two million jobs lost since Bush became President, and that, of course, would be 166 years of not creating enough jobs for new workers. Or as John Kerry puts it, that leaves us only 249,000 jobs a month short of where we need to be and where, incidentally, the President promised we would be by now.

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Paul O'Neill's memoirs via Ron Suskind rudely committed the crime of lèse majesté, leaving Washington chattering classes agog and atwitter. The media made O'Neill's not very new tale that this Administration meant to invade Iraq from the git-go the big item, but the real story in O'Neill's recollections is both simpler and more depressing. It is what has bothered people about Bush from the beginning: He's not bright enough to be President. For a long time, anyone who questioned Bush's ability to think was pointed to the opinion polls and told that discussing whether or not the President is borderline stupid was bad manners and counterproductive. Actually, that is the main problem with Bush: He neither reads, nor writes, nor speaks well.

It turns out that a C average is not good enough for the Presidency.


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http://www.progressive.org/march04/ivin0304.html

[A HERETIC I AM]

1. Molly kicks ass n/t

[Davis_X_Machina]

2. Charles Pierce

always refers to Junta Boy as "C-plus Augustus", which slays me every time I see it.

[Vogon_Glory]

3. C-plus Augustus? I Like That

The incumbent as C-plus Augustus? I like that even more than George Minor or George the Lesser, a couple of my nicknames for the furniture sitting in Bill Clinton's seat.

[wellst0nev0ter]

12. Hey Be Fair, At Least Bush Graduated

Dick-tater Cheney flunked out of Yale - twice.

[Manix]

4. Right on Molly!

[Disturbed]

5. Appeal

Isn't that why Shrub appeals to so many of the sheep? He make them feel half way smart.

[indepat]

6. When a president neither reads, writes, nor speaks well, the main risk

is those who surround him will press their own agenda, all too much of which will be implemented without any serious thought having given as to the actual/possible consequences of taking such action(s). A second major risk is that the person who neither reads, writes, nor speaks well will likely bring with him a plethora of really bad, not well-thought-out, plans and ideas. A third major risk is such person might well be ideologically-driven rather than constitutionally-driven. Folks, we hit the trifecta.

[Raster]

8. no kidding..."hit the trifecta" .... LOVE IT!

[glitch]

7. Gentlemen's C

Not a really a C average.

[Raster]

9. gentleman's C: my daddy bought it for me

[jbfam4]

10. Molly is priceless

Thanks for posting this article.

[Lindacooks]

11. Bless Molly Ivins

she is just brilliant, and gets better every second.

[DemoVet]

13. Yeah, she's pretty good,

but I wish she'd just come out and tell us what she really thinks for a change.
She's absolutely right, shrubby's elevator doesn't go all the way up to the penthouse, if you catch my drift. And his administration....it's as though a kindergarten class is running the most powerful country in the world. You know how kids that age are totally immune to reality when things aren't going their way? Nobody can make facts fit their theory like a 5-6 year old, and I'm continually astonished at the things that come out of the WH on a daily basis.
Jeez, we've GOT to get the grown-ups back in charge.

[MasonJar]

14. I'd be shocked if Bush had a C average at Yale...even in the old

days. Even then a student had to write papers; this simpleton thinks "gooder" is a word. Is there a building at Yale named for granddaddy Bush? And who would get into Harvard Business School with a C average and a 25 on the flight school exam? As someone on DU once observed, GWB gives new meaning to "assisted living."

[yorgatron]

15. "must read" is redundant

when talking about molly ivins.