The trouble with diplomacy *eyeroll*

[icarus]

Bush strikes new levels of dumb.

'You know, the problem with diplomacy is it takes a while to get something done …'

Across the world, every diplomat and politician just dropped their collective jaws, thinking 'no shit, Sherlock' in thirty different languages.

Wow. I never knew how clueless he was. He's been doing this job for five and half years and doesn't even get the job description? I don't know about you but if I've been in a job for five years, no matter how little I know about it initially, I'd have figured out the basics by now.

That's like a financial analyst saying: "The problem with the stock market is that it goes up and down."

A backpacker: "The problem with backpacking is you have to carry everything with you."

A climber: "The problem with rock climbing is it's hard on the hands."

Driving: "The problem with driving a car is you have to pay attention."


The rest of Bush's quote reads that while "acting alone, you can move quickly."

wildernessguru: "This is an administration that believes we can do anything with the barrel of a gun."

Yes. I saw a great bumper sticker about this yesterday. We're making enemies faster than we can kill them.

Comments

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

To be perfectly honest, you're applying British sensibilities to U.S. politics. Unfortunately, I wish this speech were that clever, a calculated move to manipulate an ignorant cow-like populace. Keep it simple and explain obvious things to the very dumb people who voted for him.

Alas, Bush has this tendency to go off script, to "ad lib." The very reason he's fired everyone who ever argued against invading Iraq, the very reason he's given Rumsfeld a blank check despite his obvious failures and the protests of the Pentagon, is the very reason Bush has to insert "personal touches" into his speeches or phrase things his way. The results are revealing gems like these.

You give him and his speechwriters too much credit.

Also, a lot of his support comes from the fact that he's not a Democrat and favors the wealthy. WG's father is a highly conservative economics professor who's made himself wealthy with intelligent investments, writes a column for a newspaper who is invited to give cruise-ship lectures on investing. He's a smart man, and he supports Bush. Most of the well-heeled people I worked for in finance were Bush-supporters.

Icarus