Does Bush think the unemployed are all uneducated?

[Zen Democrat]

Time after time he answers jobs questions by discussing education and No Child Left Behind. Tonight he talked about the importance of reading, for God's sake, in response to unemployment.

Does this cranked up Chimp really believe that it's only the illiterate and uneducated who are without jobs???

Almost all of the jobless people I know are college graduates. I know unemployed engineers and teachers. Wow, he's so out of touch with reality.

[Kurt Remarque]

1. i saw it too. like it's the workers' fault

[elsiesummers]

7. That's what my husband took away.

He thought Bush was saying "It's your own fault."

I didn't get that - though I think I was focusing more on Kerry's answers.

I was left thinking - if that's what he absorbed then it's in the overall ether - like the "it's hard work" theme. I'm going to have to rewatch this debate - because now I'm curious - what did I miss?

[Hello_Kitty]

12. Oh yeah, and the teachers too.

Damn those underpaid teachers for being unable to perform miracles with unfunded mandates to create super-educated students to fill non-existent outsourced jobs. That's why I can't raise the minimum wage to lift people who slave away at 2 and 3 shitty jobs out of poverty. It's all YOUR fault teachers!!

[TexasBushwhacker]

2. Yeah, it runs in the family

Remember how George Sr. was amazed by the scanner at the grocery store when they'd been in the stores for years?

[Eye and Monkey]

3. to many rePubliCons, "unemployed" means "on welfare".

It's a complete disconnect.

[Bluebear]

8. Precisely

[aquart]

15. Is that why they refused to extend unemployment?

[Eye and Monkey]

18. no, that was because they're into cutting off their own nose

just to spite their face

Or is it - "cutting off their nose, to get tight with their base" - ???

[Steelangel]

4. Funny thing is...

that Chimp himself is uneducated. Ignorance is bliss for him, I suppose.

[noonriser]

6. that's what's most amazing

He kept going on about kids being passed through school, when he is the worst example. I bet he couldn't pass a High School exit exam then or now, but his "privaledge" kept passing him through to Yale and Harvard.

[Zen Democrat]

13. He flashes his Yale and Harvard credentials ...

and he couldn't get accepted at the University of Texas. Further, he couldn't get into St. John's School in Houston and had to go to Andover, again on a legacy admittance.

Without affirmative action this dope couldn't have passed high school.

And he had the nerve tonight to make the statement "I've got four more years ..." Did anyone else catch that? I mean, the audacity and arrogance of this little, stupid man.

[killbotfactory]

5. NCLB and Tax Cuts will fix everything!

Just ask a republican billionaire!

[Fridays Child]

9. Go to school while your family starves and, by the way, you know that...

...great insurance coverage we give to Congress members? Well, you can just forget about it, okay? It's way too expensive for for us to let you all in on it.

[killbotfactory]

10. But the tax cut helps!

You get to keep more of your lowered/non-existant income! Yay!

Hail Bush! King of Democracy!

[Was_Immer]

11. No Mr. President were not all as dumb as you!!!!!

[Sandpiper]

14. No kidding

Is Bush completely out of touch with reality, or just plain stupid?

Many of the people who were hit hardest by the Bush economy were people with DEGREES in IT and Accounting.

[leftofthedial]

16. college degree, excellent experience and background

2000: $100K technical job with good benefits, bonuses
2004: $60K pieced together from three jobs, savings gone

Jobs of the twenty-first century = burger flipper, Wal Mart greeter

We MUST get the bushgang out of office. They are methodically destroying the middle class.

[incapsulated]

17. It was one of his biggest gaffs

Aside from the Osama lie.

White collar, educated workers who have been laid off or outsourced are going to be very pissed off at being told to go learn a trade at a community college.

Shithead.