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Books_Tea_Alone

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18. No way- his speech pattern is not in line with a Yale educated person

Reply to Meadowoak (Original post)

Thu Sep 27, 2018, 05:46 PM

Sep 2018

Eloquent speakers do not say “I worked my tail off, I was the captain of the basketballl team” and instead would say “I did well academically and excelled in athletics” or something to that effect. I heard lots of “dees” and “dos” from him instead of “these” and “those”. The way he refers to his high school and college friends as “Johnny D” etc is odd. I’m sure if the transcript of his testimony was run through a grade-level speech scale it would be right there with T.rump’s and nowhere near Dr. Ford’s

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Does Kavanaugh impress you as intelligent? [View all] Meadowoak Sep 2018 OP

Not even close to to being qualified... FarPoint Sep 2018 #1

Sneaky. In a self-survival sense. C_U_L8R Sep 2018 #2

This message was self-deleted by its author rzemanfl Sep 2018 #9

If he was intelligent it wouldn't be so obvious that he is trying to burn out the clock. GemDigger Sep 2018 #3

Yes when he yells his answers - that always shows me intelligence rurallib Sep 2018 #4

Not as intelligent as would like a judge to be uponit7771 Sep 2018 #5

Mean and belligerent Skidmore Sep 2018 #6

No. displacedtexan Sep 2018 #7

This message was self-deleted by its author yortsed snacilbuper Sep 2018 #8

Not particularly, no. cwydro Sep 2018 #10

Privileged. n/t rzemanfl Sep 2018 #11

Emotionally unstable and whiny. louis-t Sep 2018 #12

Absolutely not! Butterflylady Sep 2018 #13

no no no trueblue2007 Sep 2018 #14

deplorable dumb. democratisphere Sep 2018 #15

Only if compared to a TURKEY bluestarone Sep 2018 #16

This message was self-deleted by its author yortsed snacilbuper Sep 2018 #20

LOL that's why i said i'd need to give it more thought bluestarone Sep 2018 #31

Functional as a retail store manager. I can see him as a Best Buy district manager... AT BEST!! NurseJackie Sep 2018 #17

No way- his speech pattern is not in line with a Yale educated person Books_Tea_Alone Sep 2018 #18

Not at all KT2000 Sep 2018 #19

Not outside his social circle lunatica Sep 2018 #21

Now that you mention it, no, he doesn't. Baitball Blogger Sep 2018 #22

Like he climbed the frat rat ladder. nt NCjack Sep 2018 #24

No. Dr. Ford would be a better judge. sinkingfeeling Sep 2018 #23

No. I think there is a social component to being a good jurist PA Democrat Sep 2018 #25

No, he's a contrarian. joshcryer Sep 2018 #26

He had a friend named Squee. torius Sep 2018 #27

No, nothing more than a political hack DeminPennswoods Sep 2018 #28

He really does not. He seems a bit thick to me JDC Sep 2018 #29

An acquaintance of mine was a world class research and lecturing professor, but has been a OnDoutside Sep 2018 #30

If he ever had any innate and exceptional intelligence it was too rarely exercised. hunter Sep 2018 #32