in re: lying It's not that no other politician lies. It's... the bald faced quality of it, like a child with chocolate smeared all around his mouth who says "What candy bar? I saw no candy bar." because he kept his eyes closed while he ate it. It's the prolific nature of it, the sheer number of times that he simply states something obviously wrong is so. It's that he does it when, so far as I can tell, there is no advantage to be gained by lying as opposed to telling the truth. But yes, of the three, incompetent is far and away the most appropriate brand.
According to Pew (http://people-press.org/reports/display.php3?ReportID=271) most folks agree with you: The changing impressions of the president can best be viewed by tracking over time how often words come up in these top-of-the-mind associations. Until now, the most frequently offered word to describe the president was "honest," but this comes up far less often today than in the past. Other positive traits such as "integrity" are also cited less, and virtually no respondent used superlatives such as "excellent" or "great" terms that came up fairly often in previous surveys.
The single word most frequently associated with George W. Bush today is "incompetent,"and close behind are two other increasingly mentioned descriptors: "idiot" and "liar." All three are mentioned far more often today than a year ago.
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Date: 2006-03-16 12:27 am (UTC)It's not that no other politician lies. It's... the bald faced quality of it, like a child with chocolate smeared all around his mouth who says "What candy bar? I saw no candy bar." because he kept his eyes closed while he ate it. It's the prolific nature of it, the sheer number of times that he simply states something obviously wrong is so. It's that he does it when, so far as I can tell, there is no advantage to be gained by lying as opposed to telling the truth.
But yes, of the three, incompetent is far and away the most appropriate brand.
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Date: 2006-03-16 12:58 am (UTC)The changing impressions of the president can best be viewed by tracking over time how often words come up in these top-of-the-mind associations. Until now, the most frequently offered word to describe the president was "honest," but this comes up far less often today than in the past. Other positive traits such as "integrity" are also cited less, and virtually no respondent used superlatives such as "excellent" or "great" terms that came up fairly often in previous surveys.
The single word most frequently associated with George W. Bush today is "incompetent,"and close behind are two other increasingly mentioned descriptors: "idiot" and "liar." All three are mentioned far more often today than a year ago.
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Date: 2006-03-16 02:21 am (UTC)So that's how long it takes to wake some people up... *makes note*