Posted on 08/06/2005 4:06:51 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
...."... I think it's important for me and for you to look for the depth of a person's soul and character. I was touched by the fact your mother gave you the cross.' " Bush publicly testified of Putin, "I was able to get a sense of his soul."
...Bush is even apt to apply this particular brand of illogic to his own character. In one of the 2000 presidential debates, Al Gore pointed out that Bush as governor of Texas opposed a measure to expand children's healthcare and instead used the money for a tax cut. The debate moderator then asked Bush, "Are those numbers correct? Are his charges correct?" To which Bush replied, "If he's trying to allege that I'm a hardhearted person and I don't care about children, he's absolutely wrong."
...Gore was trying to make a point about Bush's moral priorities by establishing a series of facts about Bush's behavior. Rather than deny having chosen tax cuts over children's healthcare, or explain his rationale for having done so, Bush changed the subject to more comfortable ground: judging people's hearts. He asked the audience to intuit, based on the way he carries himself, that he is a warmhearted person, and thus to reject out of hand any facts that might clash with this impression.
The point isn't just that Bush refuses to engage with facts he finds inconvenient. ... It's that Bush rejects reason itself. Reason is a process by which we draw our broader conclusions from an accumulation of specific evidence. When the evidence changes ....., our conclusions can also .....Bush, on the other hand, arrives at his beliefs through intuition. His supporters marvel at the unshakeable certainty of his convictions. Well, no wonder.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
The past five years have gone much better for George Bush than they have for the LA Times.
Yes, "facts" that the MSM and the Dims think up in their brainstorming (I hesitate to use anything with the word "brain" embedded when referring to them) sessions to come up with bad things they wish were wrong with the President. Kind of like this article.
On the basis of a single example drawn from a debate, the author concludes that "Bush rejects reason itself".
I conclude from this, that the author Jonathan Chait, and the editor of the Los Angeles Times, does not understand Logic.
Bush is playing chess, whereas this guy is playing checkers.
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And thus...
..as he was bringing Freedom to Iraq and Afghanistan in April 2003...
President BUSH promised in writing in a letter read aloud to 1,000's of Vietnamese-Americans praising him at a Little Saigon CA Freedom
Rally...
Freedom's Return to:
Communist Vietnam
Communist North Korea
Communist Cuba
as well as
Freedom's Arrival to:
All the countries of the Middle East
...during a BUSH Presidency...
...as America's own best Self-Protection against future terrorist attacks here at home.
BUSH's intuition at work, indeed.
Signed:..An in-person witness
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Bush does have a superior ability to cut through the cr@p.
Like with 43 it's one or the other.
Snort.
And I'm sure that Jonathan used his intellect to determine if it was A-OK to love Bill, before he made his intellectual decision to love Bill.
i bet you the author of the above captioned article has the i.q. of an amoeba
Perhaps an envious Jonathan is exasperated at being left in the dust.
Thank you all for such laughs.
I just came back in from fertilizing my rose bed.
I find it telling that in his Bush-bashing career, Jonathan got so much, so wrong about President Bush. Some from the horse's mouth in Post #3.
He doesn't care about the children of American citizens. He is working furiously to redistribute their parent's hard earned wealth to Mexico, and any other god forsaken place that has criminals for leaders. He and Congress are working furiously to put the illegals on Social Security, which will bankrupt their grandparents and cause them to live in poverty.
Gore is a bozo - but Bush is the godfather and Santa Claus of the New Mexican world order.
"The point isn't just that Bush refuses to engage with facts he finds inconvenient. ... It's that Bush rejects reason itself. Reason is a process by which we draw our broader conclusions from an accumulation of specific evidence. When the evidence changes ....., our conclusions can also .....Bush, on the other hand, arrives at his beliefs through intuition. His supporters marvel at the unshakeable certainty of his convictions. Well, no wonder."
Jon-boy then:
"For the couple weeks seven years ago before he revealed himself to be a horrible, crazy gnome, Ross Perot seemed to me like a great idea. And if next November the candidates are George Bush, Al Gore, and Jesse Ventura, it isn't inconceivable that I would pull the lever for Ventura. And I certainly wouldn't be upset if Bush won, even if he can't name a single book he's ever read." --Jonathan Chait, The New Republic, Dec. 20, 1999
Perot? Ventura? "Rejecting reason"? Res ipsa loquitor.
Chait is just another paid-by-the-word lib, the type that populate Salon with thousands of useless bits and bytes, every article mandated by scroll-button column stretch, and very little else.
As for intuition, I use it often over the skewed data and unbalanced group thinking from people who think they have studied all "the facts" and yet continually make stupid decisions. It happens all the time in business and government where "think tanks" churn out erroneous information and use it as facts. Since the first devastating terrorist attacks, way back in the 80's in Lebanon, there are two agencies that make many truly asinine decisions based upon flawed data: the CIA and the FBI.
It seems we should look elsewhere for commentary about the President's mind.
I am really sick of people talking about President Bush's long vacation at the ranch. Presidents NEVER are more than a few seconds away. In this electronic age doesn't everyone know he has an office in his ranch house with every electronic device made to put him in touch with anyone anywhere?
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