Andrew Golis

Because apparently he’s reading Tocqueville and making references to him. From the NYT:

In off-the-cuff and slightly confusing remarks, Mr. Bush said that “de Tocqueville, the Frenchman who came to America in the early 1800′s, really figured out America in a unique way” because he saw that “Americans form association in order to channel the individualistic inputs of our society to enable people to serve a cause greater than themselves.”

On March 7, in unprepared remarks introducing his wife at an event to help troubled children in Pittsburgh, Mr. Bush again mentioned Tocqueville, this time saying that the Frenchman had written about Americans who were able “to associate in a voluntary way to kind of transcend individualism.”

It’s the typical “pick the part that suits me best” that both sides do, but still, I’m fascinating by the idea of Bush as intellectual. I haven’t been in the “Bush is an idiot” camp for a while (after all, if he’s an idiot, what does his continued ability to kick our (liberals) ass say about us?) but I never took him for, well, a reader.

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