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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bernard Levy who wrote (117283)	12/17/2000 8:29:50 PM
From: puborectalis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769669

"skydecker" Bush..............."At Harvard he was what is still known as a sky decker—a student who chooses to sit in the top row of the horseshoe-shaped classroom amphitheater. Sky deckers sat back and listened, taking in the scene, contributing consensus-building observation from on high. Sky deckers also had a better shot at surviving the professors’ legendary “cold calls”—demands for impromptu class presentations. From the stratosphere, you could escape notice until you’d heard the flow of the talk. It suited his methods, and even now he’d much rather learn through briefings than paper. Dubya is used to being a man of whom little is expected, his name notwithstanding. But he’s insouciant about it, even puckish. There is a doggedness to him, the wiliness of a man only too glad to recognize his limitations and operate accordingly. He tends to draw up simple schemes in fat strokes with a Sharpie pen on legal pads—and then follow them, for years if necessary. "

To: Bernard Levy who wrote (117283)	12/17/2000 8:39:08 PM
From: Carolyn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769669

I am glad there are many who feel this way, as I do. Let us all give him a chance.

To: Bernard Levy who wrote (117283)	12/17/2000 9:21:48 PM
From: mst2000	Respond to of 769669

I don't think you get my drift -- anti-intellectual not because of where he went to school (based on his father's connections, BTW, but who's paying attention) but because of remarks he has made publicly about "intellectuals", as well as his admission that he never reads. Never. Hey - he was your candidate - he got less votes but still is going to be the President -- so now we all get to see how he does. Hope he handles the election scandal effectively.