schrafinator writes:
a presidential candidate that cannot speak coherently, stumbles miserably over every other word, cannot construct a complex sentence nor even a simple one without a struggle, and flounders when asked to speak carefully is a very pathetic presidential candidate
Then there must be something else that makes him a
good candidate, because he was in fact elected.
Don't you think that one of the skills required for the job should be the ability to speak in public?
Apparently a majority of the electorate doesn't.
It could of course be that, since there are only two candidates to choose from, who each stand for two rather opposite ideologies, that, even though Republican voters think Bush is an awful orator, they have no choice but to elect him, because they think that Democrat ideology must not be allowed to rule.
"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science." - Charles Darwin.