We elect mediocrities, because they make us feel good about our poor selves, and we diss brilliant men like Alan Keyes. Briliance doesn’t sell, it makes us feel inferior.
George Bush is a singularly inarticulate man, someone else observes on this or the other concurrent thread. True. But didn’t he have a staff of Harvard educated speech writers? What happened?
And now this inarticulate man writes a book. Writes? No, “writes”! My daughter axed me last night if I was going to read it. I answered that I’d read it as soon as the alleged author has read it. I don’t have to remind you instances when your favorite politicians and celebrities were exposed as not having read their own books.
I told her I’d sooner read Keith Richards’ book, that is when it comes down in price to $6 a copy on Amazon or at Half Price Books.
In the meantime, let’s believe, as Karl Rove once informed us that George W. Bush reads 100 books a year. Maybe he does, I dunno. Neither do you!