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Whoever came up with the recurring “Great Moments in Presidential Speeches” bit for Letterman deserves an award. The sad part is that his staff doesn’t have to look hard for Bush babblings. The babblings are so dumbfounding, one wonders if Bush tries to give Letterman material.
The Bush clip the other night had him asking to be remembered as a strategic thinker, who focused on a strategy. Strategic is one of those catchall buzzwords that means less each day and is embraced by those who do little but talk. Bush isn’t strategic anyway, he’s deterministic and simplistic. For example, in the illegal immigrant matter, we hear Bush and others say, what can we do about 12 million illegal people here already? That’s deterministic. What’s done is done. It happened, so it must’ve been supposed to happen. Strategic thinking is the legal immigration process, where we manage and measure and choose and protect our people and resources.
Letterman performs a public service by making light of the Bush clips because most of us would never see his mutterings otherwise. Compared to his recent predecessors, Bush will be remembered as a president who lacked the common sense and good humor of Reagan, and the raw intelligence of Bush Sr. or Clinton. Bay Buchanan was on C-SPAN a while back and mentioned how Bush was allocated the full support of the Republican party during the 2000 primaries because he was compliant and dogmatic and would follow party instructions. That’s a long way from strategic.
The Bush clip the other night had him asking to be remembered as a strategic thinker, who focused on a strategy. Strategic is one of those catchall buzzwords that means less each day and is embraced by those who do little but talk. Bush isn’t strategic anyway, he’s deterministic and simplistic. For example, in the illegal immigrant matter, we hear Bush and others say, what can we do about 12 million illegal people here already? That’s deterministic. What’s done is done. It happened, so it must’ve been supposed to happen. Strategic thinking is the legal immigration process, where we manage and measure and choose and protect our people and resources.
Letterman performs a public service by making light of the Bush clips because most of us would never see his mutterings otherwise. Compared to his recent predecessors, Bush will be remembered as a president who lacked the common sense and good humor of Reagan, and the raw intelligence of Bush Sr. or Clinton. Bay Buchanan was on C-SPAN a while back and mentioned how Bush was allocated the full support of the Republican party during the 2000 primaries because he was compliant and dogmatic and would follow party instructions. That’s a long way from strategic.
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