Airhead...I got more of them than that my friend.
-By cruel accident, the United States has had to endure, for almost four long years, a president who was never big enough for the job and grows smaller in stature all the time - a president who came into office by a fluke of history, never having been really elected by the voters.
A small man, he grows smaller all the time, and none of his bluster can hide his lack of international stature. There was a time when the United States was widely respected; now he makes us ashamed of our own country with his rough language and the way he rides roughshod over any opposition.
Look at all the foreign commitments this president has made, and how he's overextended both our military and economic resources!
An obscure if feisty politician without any real education or training in foreign affairs, naturally this pretender of a president would lead the country into one reckless foreign entanglement after another. The man is, let's face it, an embarassment. He can't debate, but only hollers on the stump, repeating the same blustery slogans at every whistle-stop.
Yes, this president may have a certain low talent for exciting the rubes in fly-over land, but it's no accident that his appeal stops short of our sophisticated cities and makes the intellectuals of academe laugh. His language is embarrassing when it isn't vulgar. Entre nous, the country needs a president the world can admire for a change, not this little braggart.
One high-ranking official after another has left his administration complaining about the disastrous decisions he's made. As stubborn as he is mistaken, the man lacks any charm or sophistication or real background at all. A political hack he was, and a hack he will remain.
Can anyone imagine this guy actually being welcomed in the halls of the Quai d'Orsay? If he wins this election, our most sensitive and gifted citizens will scarcely be able to hold their heads up when visiting abroad. Think of the pain they will endure.
What this country needs is a leader of distinction, one who can put a sentence together without just flailing about at the opposition, someone from the East with finesse and legal training. That's why, in this dangerous year...it's important to choose a president who can lead the United States back to respectability in the counsels of the world: Thomas E. Dewey. Remember: To err is Truman!
