What is the legacy being bequethed to us by the man who claimed that he wants to be known as "the education President"? It is certainly not an enhancement of the United States educational system at any level. Indeed, while literally blithering about "education" he has not only undermined Primary, Seconday and Higher Education but also engages in a politics of deception and misdirection characteristic of a political manipulator rather than that of an educator.
Like Reagan G. W. says what he is told to say. Unlike Reagan he isn't particularly good at saying it. Only when he goes into the mode of a mediocre Baptist minister does he sound at all in his element. Millions have nonetheless listened and swooned!I don't know how many times I have seen folks on television refer to this playboy turned President as a "godly man". He seems to have gotten the vote of just about every hard-core sinner turned "recovering alcoholic", "recovering coke dealer", "recovering wife beater", and so on and so forth... a much esteemed group of Christians who are just as eager to enunciate their formal allegience to the will of God as they were once eager to use drugs, engage in violence, graft, and commit just about any reprehensible act under the sun. G. W. captured this self-satisfied hypocrisy when upon deciding that he had won the Presidential election in 2000 he strutted about how modest and humble he was about the whole thing. The Cheshire Cat grin was writ large on his face the whole self-effacing time he said he was modest and humble. Hum
bug!
The man's almost legendary inability to speak anyone's English would be forgiven if he was actually trying to say something of merit. Instead he not only crucifies the language but insults all about him by continuously reciting lies that have been drummed into him during his seemingly endless "vacations" at Crawford, Texas. The miseducator himself must be miseducated and he is manipulated much as a "Manchurian Candidate" especially since he has no intrinsic interest in virtually anything he is saying, unless it pertains, of course, to his comic book version of fundamentalist Chrisitianity.
The nation and the world are in great peril as a consequence of the fact that there is a dunderhead in the White House.
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