A Grateful Briton

London Daily Mail ^ | 14 April 2003 | James Black

[Caipirabob]

Your president may not be the sharpest knife in the cutlery set...

I just don't get this. Bush is brilliant. How else can you explain that he constantly achieves the tactical advantage of having his enemies underestimate him every time, only to turn around and whup them completely?

Sun Tzu is taking notes somewhere.

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[patriciaruth]

Wow! Sorry for the ping fest, but this is a keeper.

[Darling Lili]

He just couldn't get through this without taking a gratuituous slam at GWB?

Looks like just another case of a blind hog finally finding acorns. I look for more of them, now that the war's pretty well been won.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Those who misunderestimate the President will see their strategery backfire. Bigtime.

[gatorbait]

Your president may not be the sharpest knife in the cutlery set,
I think this is a perception,slowly diminishing, among the intelligentsia.Personally,I hope the baddies keep thinking Dubya is a little slow;then when he slams them into irrelevence,it is that much sweeter.

[wrbones]

Apparently this was posted about a month ago over there. Personally, I learned long ago to never underestimate a Texican or a hillbilly. You'll end up hurt or flat broke! LOL. Or both!!!

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[Mo1]

I just don't get this. Bush is brilliant. How else can you explain that he constantly achieves the tactical advantage of having his enemies underestimate him every time, only to turn around and whup them completely?

I think he is talking about the plain spoken words of the President.

Unfortunately, some people think you need to sound like a Stuff Shirt Ivy League idiot like Teddy Kennedy to have any real intelligence.

It has taken some a little longer in learning that President Bush is more on the ball, extremely smart and full of common sense ... which many of those Ivy League Stuff Shirts are lacking Big Time.

[christie]

"Your president may not be the sharpest knife in the cutlery set..."

I just don't get this. Bush is brilliant. How else can you explain that he constantly achieves the tactical advantage of having his enemies underestimate him every time, only to turn around and whup them completely?

Bush is far too cunning and thinks way too far outside the box for these people to understand him. First, they've determined that he's dumb, so they underestimate him. Second, he lets them think he's dumb, so he can outmaneuver them at ever turn. And they don't see it coming (eventhough it just keeps on coming).

Now, who is stupid?

[firewalk]

Thank you for the ping

[AndrewC]

BTTT

[LoveBushLongTime]

"Your president may not be the sharpest knife in the cutlery set..."

No, that's because he uses that one to cut his enemies to the quick. Bush is much smarter than those who think otherwise. I think he's brilliant.

[JakeWyld]

A Late BUMP!!

[ThePythonicCow]

Thanks for the ping, patriciaruth.

Your president may not be the sharpest knife in the cutlery set ...

Unlike some above, I didn't mind this line; it's a gentle recognition to the ordinary liberals who might be reading this of their instinctive dislike of Bush. It's a common rhetorical technique - when speaking to the opposition, to acknowledge early on at least the possibility of something they commonly find objectionable about your side, so that they don't dismiss you out-of-hand as a card carrying member of the vast opposition.

... but I now understand he and the good people of the United States operate not just from a high intellectual stance, but also from the heart -- a heart that knows the difference between good and evil.

But I do object to the other half of this same sentence. Simply put, I think that it's the soul, more than the heart, that is the organ of such spiritual awareness as knows the difference between good and evil.

Notice that there's not much mention of God in this piece.

[George W. Bush]

Your president may not be the sharpest knife in the cutlery set, but I now understand he and the good people of the United States operate not just from a high intellectual stance, but also from the heart -- a heart that knows the difference between good and evil.

Actually, I think he has a point. I don't think Bush is intellectual. He's like Reagan in this way. But it's not merely knowing the difference between good and evil. All the Weasels and even most the Middle East knew that Saddam was evil and undesirable.

Where the author fails is in failing to recognize that it's having the will and courage to risk your political career and put your young armies' lives on the line to take a stand for the good, for human rights, for the dignity of the individual, for freedom, which is the truly enobling quality of the leadership of Bush and Reagan. And I have to give Bush far greater credit for his success than I can to Reagan. He's gone even further than Reagan. But then, Bush also is the 9/11 president, a political advantage Reagan never had.

It's Bush's heart and determination that are his most admirable qualities. Personally, I think that Clinton and Carter are probably smarter than W is in the ways we conventionally measure intelligence. And yet, there is no doubt that, as a president, he towers over them like pygmies. And it arises innately from his mature character, something that comes from his most basic identity, just as, among these failed Dem presidents, their own flaws proceed from that same source within their own character.

[gcruse]

Heh. You only missed the publication date by a month. This was from March 14, not April. And, yup, it was posted here at the time.

[wrbones]

Wasn't my intention to offend anyone.

the 14th to the 14th is a month, isn't it?

[snooker]

>>>may not be the sharpest knife in the cutlery set,

baffling sentence ...

What do you do when you call someone a moron and he continuely makes you look like one?

[ChadGore]

re:Your president may not be the sharpest knife in the cutlery set . .

He's a graduate of Yale and Harvard.
No small achievement.