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19 Jul 2008 08:20 pm
Dumbing Down The Presidency, Ctd.
By Patrick Appel
A reader writes:
Just read "Dumbing Down the Presidency" and something clicked. I think
part of the reason Bill resents Obama is because he's doing a lot of
things the way Bill wanted to do them, but was talked out of by his
advisors.
Obama's speechifying is everything Clinton's could have been -
unrestrained, rhetorically brilliant, unapologetic - except that Bill
chose to go the "dumb-down" route and so eschewed all the intellectual
acclaim that the former Rhodes Scholar could have claimed. He chose to
accept the conventional wisdom that the average American was too dumb
to follow a collegiate level speech. Seeing Obama pull it off must be
infuriating - it's like watching someone win a race you know you could
have won too, except everyone told you not to enter.
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