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To: carranza2 who wrote (52039)	6/29/2004 12:33:36 PM
From: JohnM	Respond to of 793891

Contrary to the folklore you no doubt believe, Bush is not dumb. Oh, I don't think Bush is dumb. I think he's one of the smarter political operatives to come along in some time. I think the details of policy issues bore him to death, he skips them, and then appears dumb because he doesn't wish to get caught in the details. A little like Reagan, without Reagan's gift for the telling change-of-topic comment. Someone said, perhaps it's Fallows, that Bush works very hard at the things he cares about, his exercise regimen and political advantage; he doesn't work hard at other things. Clinton is the only president I can recall who was the complete package: addicted to the policy wonk stuff and addicted to the politics of relative advantage. Bush does the latter, not the former. I think a clever Texas good ol'boy can run debating circles around a pompous prep school intellect any day of the week. Well, we're definitely going to see whether that image of Kerry takes off. Best I can tell, most of the electorate still doesn't have one. Let's hope there are lots of debates.