# Do any non-Americans actually like George W. Bush?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-non-americans-actually-like-george-w-bush/151982>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [January 31, 2003, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-non-americans-actually-like-george-w-bush/151982 "2003-01-31T23:03:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![december](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/838e76/32.png) [@december](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/december)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2003, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-non-americans-actually-like-george-w-bush/151982/61 "2003-02-04T01:04:38Z")

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George. W. Bush ran for Congress in 1978. I read somewhere that he was hurt by appearing _too intellectual._ This may be hard to believe, but don’t forget he does have degrees from both Yale and Harvard.

Anyhow, what I read was that he changed his manner so as not to appear overly intellectual. I think you can see it in his speeches. I’m not talking about his mis-pronounciation of _nuclear_ That’s just a regional abominaiton, shared byJimmy Carter, who ironically was a nuclear engineer. I’m referring to colloquial, ungrammatical phrases he throws into his speeches from time to time. Also he generally expresses his thoughts in the simplest possible terms.

**lard2000** , it’s too bad that you skipped the State of the Union. It was a good speech and well delivered. IMHO Bush has worked on his rhetorical skills. He’s much better at giving speeches than he was two years ago.

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**Author:** ![Alma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@Alma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alma)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2003, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-non-americans-actually-like-george-w-bush/151982/62 "2003-02-04T03:00:25Z")

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I read a transcript. Granted, I did miss the delivery, but it’s not like I’m completely blinded to what’s going on in the world because I don’t like the sound of his voice, as might be construed from some of the previous posts.

Anyway, I was just wondering why I thought he sounded so stupid and it was pointed out to me that this was because of my own prejudices to his policy. Fair enough, I think, it was just IMHO.

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**Author:** ![Miss\_Magic8ball](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Miss\_Magic8ball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Magic8ball)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2003, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-non-americans-actually-like-george-w-bush/151982/63 "2003-02-04T03:07:38Z")

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I’m just going to simply answer for myself.

No.

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