Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bush also succeeded at a task that eluded Dukakis in Atlanta: to provide a telling glimpse of the private man beneath the public mask. "I may not be the most eloquent," Bush announced with gentle but revealing words that momentarily belied the disclaimer. "I may sometimes be a little awkward," he continued, "but there's nothing self-conscious in my love of country. I am a quiet man, but I hear the quiet people others don't -- the ones who raise the family, pay the taxes, meet the mortgage. I hear them and I am moved, and their concerns...
...anointing Quayle, Bush also stepped into deep boo-boo. Within 24 hours of his selection, Quayle became a political bumper car careering from one public relations crack-up to another. During an awkward press conference on Wednesday and five erratic television interviews that night, Quayle was constantly unhinged by the question that torments many of his generation: What did you do during the Viet...
...that Grandpa Bush would want to offend his own grandchildren? It would have created a stir if Bush was referring to the entire Hispanic community, and if he showed a desire to offend Hispanics. But he wasn't and he didn't He was making an observation, obviously an awkward one, when he said that those are my grandchildren, who happen to stand out a bit in my predominantly white family because they have dark skin, darker than mine if you must know...
...would be crass for the Democrats to blow Bush's comment out of proportion by labeling it as an offensive one, it would be simply responsible for them to criticize Bush's own awkward attempts to lure Hispanic voters to the Republican party...
Bush will need more than Jeb and his wife and kids to attract the Hispanic vote. He will have to prove to the Hispanic community that he will help improve its overall situation in American society. But if he continues to be as awkward as he was in describing his own grandchildren, the nation's Hispanics will keep talking in Spanish while George stumbles along in English...