"Idiot."
That's how a neighbor responded to seeing President Bush on television, reiterating the familiar mantra that Bush was stupid. Imitating Socrates, I asked if it was true Bush had a MBA from Harvard. He scowled a yes but quickly pointed out Bush's C average and left.
I cracked up when the door shut. It amuses me how some people ridicule the president's college GPA while theirs most likely wasn't any better. Yes, Bush did carry a C average at Yale, which raises one question:
Does it mean anything today? Nope.
My company recently made a cut sheet to show prospective clients what I could do. They put down my college info, telling me in six months they'd swap it out with work experience I'll amass. In six months, no prospective client will see my academic awards or sports honors.
They'll want to know what I can do today, not my old grades.
Apparently liberals think mediocre grades years ago carry over to today. My mom used to tell me stories about a Ball State student. He'd deejay at the radio station cracking jokes while frat buddies egged him on. Nobody took him seriously since he was a goof and made mediocre grades.
It was David Letterman. Some failure he's been.
Assuming Bush is a dunce due to some poor grades is a tragic mistake for liberals. They continually view his accomplishments as luck or the work of a master puppeteer. Dick Morris doesn't think so.
Morris, Clinton's master strategist, recently wrote in the New York Post that Bush is systematically neutering Democratic opponents by stealing their issues.
The prescription drug plan is one such issue. Others are increased education funding, construction restrictions in wilderness areas, AIDS funding, environmental research and ending racial profiling.
Morris clearly sees the genius behind Bush's plan, referring to him as a "thief in the night." Morris also notes Bush's strategy isn't to just get re-elected; it's to bring more voters into the Republican fold. That's forward thinking, which is predicated by intelligence.
Calling Bush a dunce shows how liberal pundits lack ideas. They can't help but refer to Florida 2000 and how Gore really won (he didn't, the vote was 271 to 266) because they can't think of anything else.
They can't get over the fact that they blew it. They live in the past while Bush sails toward the future's horizon.
Conservative pundits say abject Bush hatred fuels the liberal rants. I'd add one more component: jealousy.
Liberals are jealous because of Bush's success and their lack of it. Their presupposition of stupidity has blinded them to reality and they're getting rolled. Normal people see what they don't. Bush is a big reason for that.
My dad noted Bush is the best president when it comes to communicating to the country, something liberals are not doing so well. Then again, my dad never graduated from college.
According to liberals, he must be mentally retarded, right? Maybe that's why he's successfully run his own contracting company for nearly a quarter century. Some failure he's been.
Write to Jeff at mannedarena@yahoo.com
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