I agree with kat about the man's inability to speak. His voice gives me the willies, I can't bear to be reminded that he is up there pretending to represent the American people. Every time he says something along the lines of "That's what the American people elected me for..." (which he does regularly), I yell at the TV "WE DID NOT EITHER!" (I can be plenty eloquent myself when the mood strikes.) I felt similarly about his father's weird locutions, like "the vision thing" instead of "vision". I really think Yale's accredidation should be challenged on the basis that these two men were allowed to graduate even though they are barely able to speak their native language.

I don't think Stephen Hawking has any difficulty expressing himself. His vocabulary positively beggars Dubya's. Has anyone read his books?

On a completely different note, here is a comforting thought: "When it seems that our sorrow is too great to be borne, let us think of the great family of the heavy-hearted into which our grief has given us entrance, and inevitably, we will feel about us their arms, their sympathy and their understanding."

-- Helen Keller