On 11 Aug 2002 at 8:22, Jkr438@aol.com wrote:
>
> Do you remember when he ran for president, Smirk was often reported
> saying "I'm a uniter, not a divider". Well, if you run back thru the
> old clips frame by video frame, you will discover that what he was
> really saying was, "I'm a unilateralist, not a divider". His mushy
> mouth habits - which seem to be a genetic trait in this family -
> explain why this came through so poorly, and reporters apparently
> latched on to the less appalling homonyms. Life is grand when you have
> never really learned how to communicate properly in the first place.
> Now that we have cleared that up, everybody can return to their
> previously scheduled tasks.
>
He started out that way, true, but the force of catastrophic events has
necessitated his morphing (under the tutelage of his wiser advisers, I'm
sure) into, to some degree, a consensus seeker, a coalition constructer,
a worker with other nations, a case maker, and even that dreaded thing
he once decried; a nation builder. I didn't vote for Dubya, and I wouldn't
now, but I do realize that to a certain degree there has been growth and
maturity in office, if only because that growth was painfully stretched out
of him by the events of September 11th.
>
> -Jk
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