Profiles cast Bush as unhip

Washington Times ^ | Tuesday, February 12, 2002 | By Jennifer Harper

[JohnHuang2]

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[GeronL]

The President is not supposed to be hip. Nixon wasn't a hippie was he? Carter was no yuppie was he? Reagan was...lets not go there.

[Asclepius]

He's an affable dolt, say a New York Times reporter and the child of a powerful Democrat, who would have America believe that the cultural icons of the Bush presidency amount to a pile of Cheez Doodles, peanut-butter sandwiches, wisecracks and action flicks.

Who sat on my pork rinds? Now they're like, pork dust.

[Fraulein]

I guess Dubya missed it when Leonardo DiCaprio interviewed Clinton at the White House a few years back. (I think it was an ABC "Earth Day" special, or something like that...).

[Political Junkie Too]

Maybe somebody ought to ask President Bush whether he prefers boxers or briefs.

-PJ

[Fraulein]

Thank goodness we're no longer having to deal with stuff like this...

[mrustow]

This reminds of when Bush Sr. was president, and Lewis Lapham, the socialist editor of Harper's, would publish transcripts of Bush speaking, with all the "ums" and "uhs." Lapham thought that made Bush look like a dolt, which made Lapham feel awfully superior. Folks with any decency concluded otherwise.

[Bush2000]

Uhhhhh, hellllllllooooo, liberals. He's running a country, remember?

[MissAmericanPie]

There is a big difference between being unhip and casting off some lifestyles as self centered, plastic, of no real value, and full of useless information.

[JohnHuang2]

I guess Dubya missed it when Leonardo DiCaprio interviewed Clinton at the White House a few years back. (I think it was an ABC "Earth Day" special, or something like that...).

Oh yes, horror of horrors! ;^)

[The Great Satan]

Hehe. Now the libs are reduced to trying to reassure each other that they're cool. How long before they start wearing trenchcoats and shooting the place up?

[dread78645]

. . . or actor Leonardo DiCaprio, the handsome lad who caused feminine hearts to flutter in the 1997 film "Titanic."

That fine by me. After 8 years of "flutter"-ing women in the White House,
This President only has to concern himself with one woman: Laura.

[Rain-maker]

[Indiana Girl]

Perhaps Carrot Top could interview the President regarding the Axis of Evil on 20/20 or Dateline...isn't Carrot the ultimate in hip? Afterall, he does those AT&T commercials so well and just everyone seems to love him.

[Tigercap]

My dad loves his family, his country, and God. He is honest, hardworking, and a smart business man.

He also mispronounces words, oftentimes. He doesn't know the lead-singer of U2. Wouldn't know what shows Regis hosts.

He is still a great man and a great leader. He has his priorities in order, and so does W.

[anyone notice how desperate the media is to find SOMETHING, ANYTHING to turn public-opinion against the president. pathetic worker-rats.]

[Phantom Lord]

My father has several masters degrees, has worked for the same company for 37 years (and is only 55!) and has had a very succesful move up the corporate ladder, and has traveled the world on business. Probably one of the best educated and well read people I know with a real world business education and life experience. Grew up dirt poor. Both his parents worked in the EJ Shoe Factory in Endicott NY sewing shoes together. He busted his butt and has become very succesful and provided my brother and I with a wonderful upbringing and all the advantages one could ask for.

Having said that, my father is the worst person in the world when it comes to language and pronounciation. He is so bad that the family predicts what the next thing he will screw up will be. We have gotten pretty good at predicting how he will misprounounce certain words and new products. It is very entertaining. And no matter how many times you give him the proper pronounciation he never grasps it.

[The Game Hen]

Frank Bruni thinks George Bush is clueless? What a joke!

Mr. Bruni interviewed me at a Bush appearance in 1999. He was polite but you could tell he thought I was some kind of bizarre freak. A female college graduate who votes Republican? He asked me why I didn't like Gore. "Because he's anti-business" I replied. He was flabbergasted.

I read that Bush was always friendly to Bruni as the reporter stalked him during the campaign. Can you imagine the Clinton's or Gore welcoming a hostile little worm within their entourage?

[Freedom'sWorthIt]

....hostile little worm......exactly

[Ditter]

You have freepmail! ;9D

[MissAmericanPie]

Thank you!