So, GWB developed his accent over time. I grew up in Texas and don’t have an accent now, but I did when I was young and thought that was just the way people spoke.
I would not have had a 30+year career in broadcasting with that Texan accent. Nope. Nobody would have hired me.
So who’s dumb?
YOU are if you equate intelligence with rate of speech.
You think sounding smart, according to your opinion of that, makes you smart. Ain't so!
Back to the media criticizing GWB and judging his intelligence by his speech, do you ever remember LBJ or Jimmy Carter being criticised, called stupid by the media because of their accents? Was JFK criticized because of his accent?
Have you ever heard of Arrianna Huffington being called dumb because of her accent. I can hardly understand her but I don't think she is dumb because of that! I think she's stupid because of her thinking.