Native Yurpan checking in. We don’t really get the “folksey” thing. He just comes across as a somewhat homicidal texan with a hard-on for Israel, a dislike of the dude who his daddy didn’t kill and a dislike of anyone who isn’t a member of the god-squad. Whether he is also pissed that a significant number of non-native-English-speakers have a better grasp of the language than he does is still up for debate.
Still, he apparently doesn’t give a crap about world opinion so you may ignore us, safe in the knowledge the prez does the same
It would have been clearer if I’d ended the sentence with “been”.
Now you’ve added in a rider regarding formal speeches, which wasn’t there in the first place.
And as to what sort of a question my question was, the answer is: a rhetorical question. And my unstated rhetorical answer is: someone who is less well qualified than Bush to know what people want to hear.
I think that’s rather the entire point of the thread: George Bush will do whatever he needs to get re-elected, and to hell with what that does the the US’s international reputation. Referring to these doctors as “docs” gives the impression that the US elected a mannerless, poorly-educated bumpkin as our leader.
Of course, this was already plainly in evidence long before this speech was made, so I don’t see what the big deal is, here. I’m more concerned about this administration’s rampant dishonesty, corruption, and war-mongering than I am about the president’s vocabulary.
