tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8250013.post115806363759215469..comments2023-10-06T12:28:48.452-04:00Comments on Spinning Clio: Civil DiscourseMarchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09263223781051175207noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8250013.post-1158271756450622852006-09-14T18:09:00.000-04:002006-09-14T18:09:00.000-04:00Only one of the 300 million people who live in Ame...<I> Only one of the 300 million people who live in America wake up every day to a briefing from the nation's intelligence agencies about what threats might become reailty today. </I><BR/><BR/>But does he wake up at the beginning or the end of the briefing? And does he do enough critical reading of his own to be able to assess what he is told? <BR/><BR/>As far as we can tell, he does no reading. He told Fox News that he glances at newspaper headlines but does not read the stories because he is "briefed by people who have probably read the news themselves." Whenever he has to speak without a script or an earpiece, he seems singularly ill-informed.<BR/><BR/>Clinton's saxophone populism was bad enough, but at least it was just a charade, disguising a great deal of hard work. Bush's anti-elitist pose is so engrained that he appears to rely on nothing more than gut instinct.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com