Really? I felt he had the same problem Clinton had, which was that he plodded through his speeches. He came across as uncomfortable when doing unscripted speaking, which he exacerbated with a nervous smirk that made him seem condescending. And this was during a time that I was supportive of many of his policies, heh. That may have been what set Clinton apart; he was affable and cool during the unscripted moments (Q&A sessions, for example).
Mind you, I agree that Bush was more marketable than Cheney from that standpoint as well. Cheney seems very gruff and boorish in unscripted moments, as if he doesn't understand why you're not intimidated by him. It's very different from the unsure and almost befuddled approach many politicians take, but it doesn't make him very likeable.
Mind you, I agree that Bush was more marketable than Cheney from that standpoint as well. Cheney seems very gruff and boorish in unscripted moments, as if he doesn't understand why you're not intimidated by him. It's very different from the unsure and almost befuddled approach many politicians take, but it doesn't make him very likeable.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
