[maxwell]

bullied intellectual geek

Hawgwarsh. He's a pompous ass, and a Yankee to boot. No more in touch with America than Couric and Sarandon and Striesand et al.

[palmer]

That's true, but that's not the image he was trying to project in today's speech. I expect his true nature will be very hard for him to supress and he will probably flip-flop on strategy as well.