Andrew Sullivan popped a link to this colorful mockery of Bush with a less-than-impressed, cocked-eyebrow of a description: "the state of the opposition: this guy thinks he's being real clever."
It is quite clever and mostly harmless; I find it funny because of that and the fact that Bush's parody caricature is exactly that - a parody caricature, enjoyable by its disconnection from reality. And that, though not at all interested in jest, embraces the chattering class misperception of George Bush. It's no surprise that intellectuals would dominate journalism and the various opinion-making engines - nor is it out of the ordinary for them to impune someone who not only represents anathema to their causes but is decidedly not an intellectual.
I have the benefit (or the curse, it depends on the day) of being capable of intellectual thought: I'm articulate, I absorb facts easily and I revel in successfully grasping or constructing concepts. There are those I know who are not as adept at connecting events and situations to draw unifying conclusions. On occasion, it has been my mistake to discount them as predictable, small-talking dimwits who can easily be outmaneuvered - simply by virtue of their less complex language and assertions based upon simple observations.
Understanding that intelligence manifests itself in many manners is the best way to avoid being utterly outflanked by those who speak plainly, almost unimpressively and routinely confuse words or lose their place in a train of thought while articulating. When confronted with people who are simply not talented with the construction of linguistic expression, myself and many others are wont to dismiss them as the dim-witted or conceptually benign.
Truths, I contend, are entropic in that their pursuit begins with the simple observation of a phenomenon, continues through civilized generations with a burgeoning examination, and then are desired to be concentrated into an exclusive, absolute cynosure of meaning. Or, to employ a tautological cynosure, truth. Human nature dictates that we expand the phenomenon's definition and breadth of meaning for the sake of stretching its analytical surface; the more knowledge we compile for the entity, so goes the intent, the more we understand its nature. At some point in time or study, undefined to the mind of man, it is again human nature than will lose sight of the epicenter - the "gist" - and become mired in semantics and minutiae; it becomes germaine to sift through the manner in which Truth is being pursued. What deepens human understanding and what simply obfuscates? Entropy cuts the meaningless or distracting away and what is left is Truth. My corollary is that man cannot successfully arrive at any nucleus until the end of time and the return of the Almighty, dovetailing with a much more consequential entropy.
A man like Bush - clever, but unrefined - might simply say, "if it is what it is, then it is." He'd be right, delivering more focus than my explanation and he'd save paper.
His unassuming posture is an advantage, especially against the arrogant. We have seen him run circles around his opponents. Assuming they never learn - they never focus in on an approximated truth about the simplicity of common sense - Bush will continue to win. Flummoxed, the best the elites will be able to return is laughworthy derision and, as is unfortunately more often the case, unfunny barbs.