Frank Devine in The Australian is another of those journalists who feel the need to remind us that Bush actually is really smart and intelligent…

Don’t be stupid, Bush’s wise insights are worth heeding | Frank Devine | The Australian

Don’t be stupid, Bush’s wise insights are worth heeding
COMMENT Frank Devine September 22, 2006
HAVING been reasonably diligent about splashing around in the torrents of commentary that marked the fifth anniversary of the 9/11 air raids on New York and Washington, I employed a refreshed mind to conclude that the best commentary came from President George W. Bush.

WEE repeat, if Bush is so intelligent and wise, why do so many journalists, close advisers and aides spend so much time telling us how intelligent he really is? Surely it would be self-evident and so there would be no need to tell people?

You see, there is only one really fundamental axim to remember here… if he walks like an idiot, talks like an idiot and acts like an idiot, then you can be reasonably sure he probably is an idiot.

Someone like Frank Devine, who professes a great love of English language and the spoken word should surely be able to fathom from the many utterances of George W Bush, that the man is less than capable of expressing himself in an intelligent manner. And his lack of capacity is in no way related to his oft reported touch of the ‘commom man’. Bush wouldn’t know a common man if he ran one over in the presidential limo. His lack of ability in basic expression borders on idiocy. He cannot string a sentence together. His thinking is slow and laboured, he lacks an agile wit, and even he knows it.

So lets stop with the pretence that Bush is somehow this wise, intelligent man, and somehow we just can’t see it. His stupidity is plain for all to see. Frankly a lamp post has more insight than this man. And if any of his utterances do border on intelligible, you can bet your bottom dollar that someone else has written them for him, and he is reading the words out.

Devine is just another pathetic cheerleader for failed policy and a paucity of creative thinking. For Devine to admit Bush is not intelligent, would mean that his barracking for the disastrous US policy of the last few years was driven by idealogy not by observation.

PS: For the full horror of Bush’s lack of intellect see: Slate.com

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