My Fifteen

Forgive me if I'm repeating myself... because I feel like I've made this point before... but it's just too perfect an opportunity to pass up if I haven't.

My answer to the question "What would you talk to President Bush about if you had fifteen minutes of his time" would, quite literally, be a discussion of the pronunciation of the word "nuclear". Not because I want to correct him. (Okay, not just for that reason.) I really want to know which of the following is true:

(1) He really didn't know he was saying it wrong, and his advisors never bothered to correct him.
(2) Someone has corrected him and his response was either "you're wrong" or "I don't care".
(3) His advisors noted that he said the word wrong and either he or they decided he should continue, for added folksy charm.

It sounds ridiculous, but with the answer to this question I could find out something very important about W and his administration. Is he

(1) far too insulated and out of touch with reality,
(2) stubborn in the face of contradiction, or
(3) cynically pandering to the lowest common denominator of American ignorance.

Thereby I will know whether I should

(1) pity him,
(2) laugh at him, or
(3) fear him.