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David Foster doubts that John Kerry is any smarter than Bush. At least, the evidence is pretty thin on the ground...
Those Kerry attributes that many take for signs of intelligence seem to me to be something very different: markers of class status. Enunciating precisely, using long and complex sentences, not having certain regional accents...to a certain set of people, these things say "one of us" in a manner similar to the role that upper-class accents once played (and, to an extent, still play) in Britain.
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