the blog quebecois

P.J. O'Rourke:

I think Obama is losing a lot of people in the US because he’s got a know it all, lecturing sort of attitude. He’s a capable public speaker but he talks down to his audience constantly, and that’s irksome. I haven’t been a fan of the tone of any recent president. Bush could not get [his] foot out of his mouth. My wife works to get corporate execs to express themselves in public. She said you can train a chimpanzee, but Bush won’t take advice. I always felt all gooey after Clinton got done speaking, and Bush Senior was incomprehensible in his own way, a mumbly WASP.

If you're not familiar with O'Rourke's other writings, here's part of one of my favorite pieces from his Give War A Chance (1993). As Google Books won't allow me to cut and paste (for reasons of copyright, I assume ironically), here's the link to the complete essay.