[razorback-bert]

'I'M SURE President Bush is a very nice guy, but some people voted for him because they thought he was a person they could have a beer with. What is that about?! Do you want to have a beer with the doctor who's going to operate on you, or do you want him to be the top of his class . . . be a bit in awe of him?"

So says Barbra Streisand in the new issue of O

Oooo, now I have a image of having a beer with Babs.

[veronica]

She's an idiot. I recently watched a series on the history of the US Presidency. "Top of their class" egghead types have never been the choice of the voting public. Rugged individualists, "regular" guys, plain talkers, etc., feature much more prominently.

[KevinB]

Do you want to have a beer with the doctor who's going to operate on you, or do you want him to be the top of his class . . . be a bit in awe of him?

Hey, Babs, why don't you check your hero, Jean Cherie's, grades. Bush got higher grades than he did. How about your other hero, Algore? He failed out of divinity school and dropped out of law school.