“[George W. Bush] is lucky to be governor of Texas. He is unusually incurious, abnormally unintelligent, amazingly inarticulate, fantastically uncultured, extraordinarily uneducated, and apparently quite proud of all these things.”

—  Christopher Hitchens

Hardball with Chris Matthews, (2000) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8aqx6e403g
2000s, 2000

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