Bush censored?

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Actually, I rather think that he has fair speech abilities.

Eloquence might've been the noun you were looking for.

In regards to Bush, though, I'd expect more of a Yale Alumnus. Especially one that has been afforded the kind of lifestyle and resources the Bush family enjoys.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

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I'd expect more of our president, honestly.

Well, yes, but I feel that went without saying.

Are you sure about that? Not being able to lead the country, I mean.

I'd like to clarify that statement, but to do so you'd have to have a intimate level of understanding of my thoughts/beliefs on the subject and this thread I feel is not the appropriate place.

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Money does not buy smarts, intelligence, or common sense Duo.

I would argue that it does help accelerate individuals toward their ultimate potential, though. As well, children raised in affluent environments also have a lot of advantages in their formative years. I consider myself lucky because when I was very young (less than 5 years of age) my parents had steady jobs that allowed them time to spend with me, reading and such, before I was even old enough to attend school.

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I don't understand the attraction to a president that's at the same (or in this case, a lower) intelligence level as I am. I want my president to be way, way smarter than me.

It's a deeper issue than what you might think, actually. The question seems simple, but when you start deconstructing the different forces at play, it becomes quite complicated. Anti-intellectualism has sort of taken a foot-hold in American culture. It's related to the social revolution we went through in the 1960s, but its roots go even further back.

Traditionally, educated people, "intellectuals" were generally a product of the upper-echelon(s) of society. Not always, but it definitely was a vast majority. This plays into the whole classist struggle, which came into the eye of the mainstream public through all of the activists in the civil rights movement who advocated Marxist theory. The whole idea behind the classist struggle is that the educated, established, oligarchy would continually dupe the masses into perpetuating their (meaning the upper class') sociopolitical hegemony.

Therefore, those who spoke with eloquence and affectation were regarded as untrustworthy, sort of like the familiar serpent who used flowery language to deceive us. Conversely, those who attempted to communicate on the level of the average working class citizen was regarded as trustworthy, because they weren't trying to disguise their intent within oration.

There's nowhere I can't reach.