Yonivore
09-27-2004, 09:16 PM
...Einstein!
Did you hear the one about how Albert Einstein died? The Mafia killed him. He knew too much.
I was reminded of that joke by this hilarious piece (http://www.madison.com/tct/news/stories/index.php?ntid=10870) in the Capital Times of Madison, Wis., in which Ann Richards, the one-term governor of our great State who lost her seat to George W. Bush in 1994, explains that Bush is hard to beat in a debate because he is stupid:
"[John] Kerry, like Richards and other Democrats who have faced Bush in past debates, probably knows too much."
"'As a consequence, we see issues in less simplistic terms than the president. The president speaks in terms that are so simple on the most complex issues that it sort of leaves you with your mouth hanging open,' says Richards, who was unseated by Bush 10 years ago this fall. . ."
"She contends that has been part of Bush's political strategy for years, citing an exchange during the presidential debates four years ago when he and Vice President Al Gore fielded a question about Medicare and health care costs."
"Richards recalled that Bush responded, 'I think Medicare needs to be reformed.'"
"'That doesn't tell you anything about what he's going to do, it's simply a simplistic answer,' Richards added. 'And he does that on almost everything. You give people a simple answer and then you don't have to answer the complicated questions that matter.'"
Richards also puts her superior intellect on display, saying Bush has "been the most disappointing to women, who thought with all of his commitments and promises that things were going to change for them. Things didn't change; they got worse." So things got worse without changing? Must be some quantum-physics deal.
The New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/26/politics/campaign/26boss1.html?ei=5090&en=7fdd53480a09704c&ex=1253851200&partner=rssuserland&pagewanted=all), meanwhile, gives us a sense of how Kerry's complex, nuanced mind works: "He spent four weeks mulling the design of his campaign logo, consulting associates about what font it should use and whether it should include an American flag." By contrast, just under four weeks after the Sept. 11 attack, the bombs were falling on Afghanistan. President Kerry would probably still be agonizing over that one three years later.
Misunderestimators Unite!
Did you hear the one about how Albert Einstein died? The Mafia killed him. He knew too much.
I was reminded of that joke by this hilarious piece (http://www.madison.com/tct/news/stories/index.php?ntid=10870) in the Capital Times of Madison, Wis., in which Ann Richards, the one-term governor of our great State who lost her seat to George W. Bush in 1994, explains that Bush is hard to beat in a debate because he is stupid:
"[John] Kerry, like Richards and other Democrats who have faced Bush in past debates, probably knows too much."
"'As a consequence, we see issues in less simplistic terms than the president. The president speaks in terms that are so simple on the most complex issues that it sort of leaves you with your mouth hanging open,' says Richards, who was unseated by Bush 10 years ago this fall. . ."
"She contends that has been part of Bush's political strategy for years, citing an exchange during the presidential debates four years ago when he and Vice President Al Gore fielded a question about Medicare and health care costs."
"Richards recalled that Bush responded, 'I think Medicare needs to be reformed.'"
"'That doesn't tell you anything about what he's going to do, it's simply a simplistic answer,' Richards added. 'And he does that on almost everything. You give people a simple answer and then you don't have to answer the complicated questions that matter.'"
Richards also puts her superior intellect on display, saying Bush has "been the most disappointing to women, who thought with all of his commitments and promises that things were going to change for them. Things didn't change; they got worse." So things got worse without changing? Must be some quantum-physics deal.
The New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/26/politics/campaign/26boss1.html?ei=5090&en=7fdd53480a09704c&ex=1253851200&partner=rssuserland&pagewanted=all), meanwhile, gives us a sense of how Kerry's complex, nuanced mind works: "He spent four weeks mulling the design of his campaign logo, consulting associates about what font it should use and whether it should include an American flag." By contrast, just under four weeks after the Sept. 11 attack, the bombs were falling on Afghanistan. President Kerry would probably still be agonizing over that one three years later.
Misunderestimators Unite!