Bush is opposed to public education. He is a product of private schools and derived much of his education through contacts he had through his father and grandfather (a board of trustees member at Yale). Bush is not an intellectual personality and has disdain for this kind of thing. He, in a way, can be said to be a leader of the cult of stupidity. It's in his pattern to eschew learning as being valuable. He prefers the role of failed businessman and "wag the dog" president. (He created a war so that he can be commander-in-chief. He relishes mangling the english language as a badge of honor.Many citizens identify with this and have kept him in office not because of his accomplishments but more because of his "identity". There is a mood in the country of anti-education and anti-intellectualism that many are brandishing as kind of a populist sword by which they are cutting off their own legs. Bush's pandering to the lunatic religious fringe which now speak for much of congress will ensure that a decent education will not be available to most Americans.

Frank