*curses*

[conuly]

Look, I know Bush makes a lot of mistakes in his speech. And, while I still maintain that many of his errors in English are signs of a learning disability rather than stupidity, I appreciate that it can be fun to mock them. Okay. But please. Grow up, and stop mocking valid and common dialectal differences as mistakes. That's petty, and a bit ignorant. You all know people who say "Afriker" or "idear", and if you don't, you've at least heard of people who do. Unless you believe that r-adding is really a sign of unintelligence/ignorance (are are willing to do a large scale study to prove it), please, stop.

Also, please stop mocking the guy's coordination. That's another thing that doesn't indicate stupidity. Oh, so he fell off a bike. I can't even RIDE a bike. Oh, he choked on a pretzel. I can barely eat with silverware, and that is a fact. I'm not stupid. While Bush's intelligence is debateable, it makes all of us look bad when the only "facts" you can point to to prove this are "well, he's uncoordinated and he doesn't speak like I do". Try pointing out his foreign policy (or lack thereof), or his stubbornness, or his assumptions that we can't remember what he's said from one speech to the next. You know, something that's actually important.

Oh, and please stop comparing Bush to a chimp. That's insulting to the chimp.

Comments

[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

Right on. I don't care about the way he talks; it's what he says that worries me. So he has a southern accent; that would most likely be the result of having lived in the South. I don't see that his ability or inability to ride a bike, fly a hang-glider, juggle bowling balls or walk and chew gum simultaneously have any bearing on whether or not he should be President. Most chimps are way cuter than he is, but again, his appearance is totally beside the point.

If he looked like Orlando Bloom, talked like James Earl Jones, and was as athletic as Arnold Schwarzenegger used to be, I'd still be voting for Anybody But Bush. Hell, I'd vote for a real chimpanzee instead of him, if that were the only alternative.

I'd actually rather vote for a real chimp than for Kerry, whom I don't like much more than I like Bush... he's only getting my vote because he's the Lesser Evil, and not by any big huge margin, either.

[staircase-wit.livejournal.com]

I still have to wonder about Kerry. He totally unimpressed me, but he won in almost every primary.