Thursday, November 2, 2006
logic
I was thinking about it and trying to understand the logic of the "joke" in which CaryKerry supposedly meant to poke fun at President Bush. He says what he meant is this:
get an education = get a good jobBut if Bush was the target then he presumably meant that education would help the kids do better than Bush (because you certainly wouldn't want to emulate him). But Bush did have a sort of decent education (Andover, Yale and Harvard) and he's had a few pretty good jobs (sports team executive, state's governor, country's president). And didn't JK want the job that Bush has? So he must've meant something else. Maybe he meant this:
get an education = get a better job than being a soldier and having to go where someone tells you and maybe getting shot at for months on end or even killedBut then the "joke" would have been cutting on the troops and he says he really really really didn't have that in mind. So maybe he really meant this:
Bush has soldiers stuck in Iraq and if you don't get a good education you might have to be a soldier and then you could be one of them and have to go where someone tells you and get shot at for months and maybe get killedBut then that means he wasn't talking about education at all. (Uh-oh.) It means that he was talking about how much he doesn't like Bush or what's going on in Iraq. But that's not what he actually said. And I still don't see where the joke (i.e. funny part) is.
Labels: politics, reflections
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| posted by jau at 9:28 AM
jau — at 6:13 PM, November 02, 2006:
| posted by jau at 9:28 AM
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jau — at 6:13 PM, November 02, 2006:
Actually, he seems to be disdainful of everyone, don't you think? We're all just too too beneath him - we can't understand what he means, we aren't smart enough, etc., etc. I guess the good news is that his chances of higher office are pretty much over, now.
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