... So most people are morons, then.viperpilot wrote:to be at all fair most people mispronounce "nulear" as "nucular" so...Durandal wrote:No one said that he abused the English language. We said he doesn't know it. He's incapable of speaking it correctly. When you're the leader of the most powerful nation in the world, addressing your nation and others, you should at least be able to speak your native language correctly without having to resort to a script or teleprompter. If you consistently fuck up your native language or mispronounce easily pronounceable words like "nuclear," you make yourself look like a total ass.
Are you serious? His press people actually told him not to answer anything but preplanned questions from the media! That's how horrible he is at speaking on the spot. He's like a deer in headlights. He fumbles words, can't think of anything to say, says, "uh" a great deal and leans on the podium with his shoulder to the audience. Any speech professor would fail his sorry ass in any kind of improvisation speaking, and he'd be hard-pressed to get a low B or high C for any kind of rehearsed speaking.as for not knowing the langauge, i think that's just not right. i've noticed that he does a better job of speaking when he's not using a teleprompter or scriptwriter. as for how the leader of a country speaking a certian way i can't say i think it matters. it makes him more in touch with the common person and less of an elitist dick. that just MHO however.
You're basically confusing elitism with letting smart people be in power. Elitism puts social and economic elites in power. This is not the same thing as putting someone who is part of the intellectual elite in power. The former status carries absolutely no qualification. The latter does. In case you didn't notice, leaders aren't the common person. I hate to be this brutally honest, but the majority of people are sheep. They're average. Leaders aren't supposed to be average people. They're supposed to be above average and part of the intellectual elite, and they're supposed to think for themselves. The fact that Shrub is a "common man" means that his intrinsic capacity for leadership is severely limited, at best. Of course, Daddy's bank account affects his perceived leadership capacity. Money might have been able to buy him office, but it doesn't change the fact that he's an idiot. You can't buy intelligence.
