Bushisms
While hauling a load back from Williamsburg, the other night on C-SPAN radio I was listening to an interview of President Nixon. During the interview, he was asked several questions about President Johnson.
In discussing LBJ’s use of poor grammar, Nixon said that LBJ knew better but he was tweaking the nose of the Eastern elites by sounding so ignorant. It wasn’t just LBJ as Nixon recounted a story of a Indiana Senator doing a similar faux dialect for the same effect.
This got me thinking about Bushisms, his crimes against the English language. No doubt, in regard to his application of faith to his professional life, President Bush is a complete idiot. However, in his mispronunciations, is he repeating the pattern of his fellow Texan and tweaking the Eastern establishment?
He either is really that ignorant (which is inconsistent with his other speaking), or he is a panderer to hokum that demeans the Presidency. Either way, we should select a better individual in 2008.
