As long as we see stories like this, Bush gets a pass for things like this:
(VA Daily Press): Bush also said high taxes on the rich are a failed strategy because "the really rich people figure out how to dodge taxes anyway."
This has been ignored by the corporate media as well as the blogosphere. Is it because they write it off as a "Bushism" or gaffe? (No, it's not a gaffe. He said it five other times, as documented on www.whitehouse.gov. ) Do people think he's slow and therefore less tactful? If it were his father people would think it a big deal, revealing an attitude of wealthy entitlement.
When Bush #41 allegedly marvelled at the technology of a common grocery store scanner, 12 years after they had been introduced at checkouts, it made the NYTimes front page AND several editorials chiding 41 for being "out of touch" with ordinary working folks. The same folks who debunk inaccuracies in the NYTimes' report also note the stickiness the rumor had with the electorate, because:
Even if Bush had been in a grocery store or two since the advent of scanners, everybody knew he had "people" to do his shopping for him, and therefore it was easy to paint a picture of him as someone who no more knew how to handle the economy than he knew the price of a carton of milk or a loaf of bread.
If you want to defeat Bush this November, stop calling him stupid, it only lets him off the hook.
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