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(Because Bush fell off his bike again)
...I suppose its not as far fetched as the thought of the head of the american government being too stupid to accomplish simple tasks like riding a bike or eating.
Funny, funny, really. Except that they aren't simple tasks. I can't ride a bike. Never learned how, don't intend to try. I routinely start to fall on flat ground. Stub my toe twice, three times a day, easy. Can't walk a straight line unless I think about it. Prefer to eat food that doesn't use utensils, spill a lot, and still have trouble with that whole "mouth closed" thing (but at least I can breathe now and my teeth don't get in the way....) I also drop things, often, because my hands forget that they're holding anything. I've hit myself with things I intended to toss at somebody else. And on and on and on.
These jokes long ago ceased to be funny. Yes, Bush is an idiot, but this doesn't prove it, and it's neither funny nor true to compare coordination to intelligence. I know it's not true, I'm certainly doing well enough in school this term (finally, got the As I always am capable of getting*), and as for funny, it's too stupid and old to be funny. So quit it.
*Last year sucked, I was barely able to make it out of bed, let alone get to class. If I had, though, I'd've gotten my standard A grades. Every class I've passed but Latin, all my college career, has been either an A or an A-
...I suppose its not as far fetched as the thought of the head of the american government being too stupid to accomplish simple tasks like riding a bike or eating.
Funny, funny, really. Except that they aren't simple tasks. I can't ride a bike. Never learned how, don't intend to try. I routinely start to fall on flat ground. Stub my toe twice, three times a day, easy. Can't walk a straight line unless I think about it. Prefer to eat food that doesn't use utensils, spill a lot, and still have trouble with that whole "mouth closed" thing (but at least I can breathe now and my teeth don't get in the way....) I also drop things, often, because my hands forget that they're holding anything. I've hit myself with things I intended to toss at somebody else. And on and on and on.
These jokes long ago ceased to be funny. Yes, Bush is an idiot, but this doesn't prove it, and it's neither funny nor true to compare coordination to intelligence. I know it's not true, I'm certainly doing well enough in school this term (finally, got the As I always am capable of getting*), and as for funny, it's too stupid and old to be funny. So quit it.
*Last year sucked, I was barely able to make it out of bed, let alone get to class. If I had, though, I'd've gotten my standard A grades. Every class I've passed but Latin, all my college career, has been either an A or an A-
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Date: 2004-07-26 04:21 pm (UTC)People who use arguments like that to back up their dislike of Bush only make themselves look bad.
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Date: 2004-07-26 06:12 pm (UTC)Exactly. There are 100 good reasons to call him stupid, picking on his accent or lack of coordination aren't good reasons. And they're old.
Incidentally, his non-accent speech problems seem to me to be more indicative of a learning disorder than stupidity, but I can't prove it, so....