In a message dated 6/28/2004 10:59:36 AM Eastern Daylight Time, aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes: I wonder why he insists on speaking off the cuff if he knows his comments will be cannon fodder. Unless that's the point, to have people belittle him to the point where the belittling becomes meaningless. Or he might be self destructive. Maybe he likes pain. ___ It's a hate thing. The majority of voters hate people who use big words, display metacognitive process, cite literature and science, or dress in tuxedos. Bush wants the NASCAR crowd to like him and the NASCAR crowd hates the grad school crowd. Why do you think Gore is screaming lately? To serve as an iconic reference for the left wing hate, and to distance himself from the robotic professorial image he created during the debates. ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html