Bush no dummy: Peacock (Aussies are realizing they "misunderestimated" Bush)

Australia News ^ | May 26, 2003 | Australia News

[FairOpinion]

US President George W Bush had been seriously misread in Australia, former Ambassador to Washington Andrew Peacock said today.

Mr Peacock, now president of Boeing Australia, said the Bush administration was leading the free world in the post September 11 environment through dramatic change "like no other in our lifetime".

But he told a Brisbane business luncheon there was a "serious misreading" of Mr Bush in Australia.

"I do find it a little remarkable that I continue to read and hear what I regard as a serious misreading of the current president," he told the QUT leaders' forum.

"You don't get through law degrees and MBAs at top universities in the United States if you don't have a degree of raw and applied intelligence," he added about Mr Bush, who is a graduate of Yale University and a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School.

"And you don't get to be President of the United States if you don't have some well honed political experience.

"The man was Governor of Texas, whose economy is significantly greater than ours.

"This is a very tough, politically savvy, philosophically motivated person.

"They're on about change and they're being led by a man who despite what you're reading here feels he's in control and wants to desperately be an effective president."

Mr Peacock, a former federal Opposition leader and one-time Liberal leadership rival of Prime Minister John Howard, said Australia's support for the war on Iraq would help speed up negotiations for a new free trade agreement with the US.

But he warned any changes would need congressional approval, which would pose difficulties with elections in the US next year.

Mr Bush, he said, held a number of states with a heavy reliance on agricultural industries.

"And he doesn't want to lose them," Mr Peacock said.

[FairOpinion]

It is becoming harder and harder to attack Bush personally, because people realize what an exceptional leader he is.

[jonascord]

At DU they convolute the impossible on an almost minute-by-minute basis...

[FairOpinion]

"At DU they convolute the impossible on an almost minute-by-minute basis... "

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And they are sounding more and more ridiculous and desperate.

[driftless]

Actually they couldn't get anymore ridiculous and desperate. I don't know how these maniacs can function with the extreme delusions that they labor under. I realize that there is a preponderance of radical-lefties on their site. But ye Gods, you would think that after a while a few of them would get a clue since Dubya keeps handing them their lunch. Oh well, maybe it's better that they continually undererrate Dubya. But the whole of DU would make a fascinating study for a team of shrinks.

[Right_in_Virginia]

"You don't get through law degrees and MBAs at top universities in the United States if you don't have a degree of raw and applied intelligence," he added about Mr Bush, who is a graduate of Yale University and a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School.

Now, now, Mr. Peacock. Please don't go throwing logic and truth at the liberals ;-)

[Tom Bombadil]

US President George W Bush had been seriously misread in Australia..

And in France, and in Russia, and in the rest of Europe, and ....... All because the Dimrats thought they could pull another Dan Quayle character assassination on the public here at home during an election.

The attack on GWB has boomeranged on any weenie stupid enough to believe it.

[MaryFromMichigan]

Isn't it great to read these things about our President!
Starts my day off right!

Love the pic, too! :)

[GraniteStateConservative]

[Citizen of the United States]

Are you free?

[gcruse]

"The man was Governor of Texas, whose
economy is significantly greater than ours.

Hmph.  Didn't know that.

[Mr. Mojo]

Leftists "misunderestimated" Reagan in the same way, attacking his supposedly "inferior" intelligence. The Gipper used this widely held misconception to bury his opponents, and now GWB is doing precisely the same thing. It's a beautiful thing to watch.

[Gamecock]

And BTW,

[gcruse]

As a Texan, I scaled back a little on the
braggadocio when I lived in Ontario, in which
Texas fits very loosely.

[Koblenz]

Actually they couldn't get anymore ridiculous and desperate.

According to the DUmmies, Bush and every other top Republican is really stupid. They're also really greedy, and great at manipulating the rest of us to get rich. And Karl Rove is really really super smart. He's a diabolical genius. He gets the Democrats to do things they didn't mean to do and then he convinces the right-wing media to harp on the Dems. Karl Rove is responsible for all their ills. Oh, except for something called PNAC which may sound like a high school athletic conference but is actually some Richard Perle organization that's going to control the world somehow. And Karl Rove is involved. Anything that's happened that has made GWB look good or Dems look bad is not policy, it's purely Karl Rove.

[FairOpinion]

"According to the DUmmies, Bush and every other top Republican is really stupid. "
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If that's true, what does that make the Democrats who are being beaten by these "stupid" people?

[okie01]

"But the whole of DU would make a fascinating study for a team of shrinks."

Most of the shrinks I've known are probably members of DU...

[ladyinred]

"You don't get through law degrees and MBAs at top universities in the United States if you don't have a degree of raw and applied intelligence,"

Duh, exactly what we tried to say all along. Now if some of our own critics would get it.