An Olive Branch

"Corky Scott" wrote in message
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[...] Very commonly, similar words will be mistaken, like cole slaw
for callous, or nuculer for nuclear. During one speech, Bush
repeatedly said nuculer, when he obviously meant to say nuclear. Or
at least I hope so because "nuculer" isn't a word.

How then, is that an example of "similar words" being mistaken for each
other?

It doesn't make
him stupid, or slow, but it's an indicator of a language problem.

He may have a language problem, but his mispronounciation of "nuclear" is no
indication of one. It's a dialect difference, one that I find incredibly
annoying, but which is quite common, especially in the south.

Some cynics would say that when Bush was in Yale, he didn't have a southern
accent, but I don't know that to be true, nor would I waste much time
arguing about it.

I mean honestly, why would anyone develop a facade of a language
problem? Did THAT get him elected? I sure hope not.

Much of his stumbling seems genuine. However, it certainly doesn't pay to
appear too smart. To many people, especially the half of those who have IQs
below 100, people who are simply speaking in what is a natural way for them,
but who have large vocabularies and tend to try to incorporate nuances of
issues in their statements wind up coming across as arrogant, or at least
not "warm".

Inasmuch as Bush may be intelligent, I don't think it's unreasonable to
think that he may be "dumbing down" his image simply to gain more voters.

Pete