Fooled by Barak Hussein Obama

[TRFrance]

Originally Posted by ChristopherHall

Most Democrats feel Hillary is too polarizing. Most Republicans have been programmed to hate her guts by the talk radio circuit. The field was wide open for Obama. And after Bush's near illiteracy, a man who can speak and has charisma is really appealing. Of course those aren't reasons to elect him...but it does explain some of his popularity.

huh??!

GW Bush has a BA from Yale University and an MBA from Harvard and he's "near illiterate"? What utter nonsense. OK...he's not a great public speaker, but to call him near-illiterate is just dumb.

CH, you try to portray yourself as being a liberal who is fair-minded... but making ignorant remarks like this don't help your case at all. Saying stuff like this makes you sound like the those idiotic loonies on the left who've made Bush-bashing into a sport these last 8 years.

[Praxeas]

Originally Posted by TRFrance

huh??!

GW Bush has a BA from Yale University and an MBA from Harvard and he's "near illiterate"? What utter nonsense. OK...he's not a great public speaker, but to call him near-illiterate is just dumb.

CH, you try to portray yourself as being a liberal who is fair-minded... but making ignorant remarks like this don't help your case at all. Saying stuff like this makes you sound like the those idiotic loonies on the left who've made Bush-bashing into a sport these last 8 years.

I think near illiterate is a buzz word for getting tongue tied maybe?

[Esther]

Originally Posted by Praxeas

I think near illiterate is a buzz word for getting tongue tied maybe?

Agreed. I seriously doubt anyone near illiterate could make it to President of the most powerful nation.

[TRFrance]

Originally Posted by Praxeas

I think near illiterate is a buzz word for getting tongue tied maybe?

Maybe, but then again, not really.
To me, it's still insulting, and inappropriate. The idea is to imply stupidity.
(Referring to someone as "getting tongue tied" is not an insult... calling a President "near illiterate" is.)

Moreover, it just feeds into the left-wing and media-fed stereotype that the man is stupid, which he is not.

It's simply incorrect. I remember seeing an interview he did on Fox News once, and he spoke very well, and had a clear command of the issues. I must say it was eye-opening to me, because he showed he was clearly not the dummy the media and the hard-left have portrayed him to be. The Left has just done such a smear campaign against the man for so long (Bush=Hitler, Bush is a moron, etc) and it just irritates me to no end.

I'm not a fan of everything the man has done, but comments the one CH made just grate on me whenever I see them, because to me they represent more of a caricature of the man, than the man himself.

[Rhoni]

Originally Posted by TRFrance

Maybe, but then again, not really.
To me, it's still insulting, and inappropriate.
(Referring to someone as "getting tongue tied" is not an insult... calling a President "near illiterate" is.)

Moreover, it just feeds into the left-wing stereotype that the man is stupid, which he is not.

It's simply incorrect. I remember seeing an interview he did on Fox News once, and he spoke very well, and had a clear command of the issues. I must say it was eye-opening to me, because he showed he was clearly not the dummy the media and the hard-left have portrayed him to be. The Left has just done such a smear campaign against the man for so long (Bush=Hitler, Bush is a moron, etc) and it just irritates me to no end.

I'm not a fan of everything the man has done, but comments the one CH made just grate on me whenever I see them, because to me they represent more of a caricature of the man, than the man himself.

Just like most leaders that make a decision that is difficult, Bush has paid for making the decision to join the war against terrorism.

There is nothing illiterate about him, only those who would make such a comment.

Blessings, Rhoni