Of the many, many points of reference available for exhibiting dubya's complete lack of class and culture- a real howler was listening to one of the most embarrassing discourse-over-dinner conversations in the history of Western Civ. When dubya's bleeping explicative wasn't enough, he then shamed us with witless exchanges that surely shamed other world leaders present: "Gotta go home. Got something to do tonight. How about you? Where are you going home? This is your neighborhood, doesn't take you long to get home. You eight hours? Me too. Russias a big country and youre a big country. Takes him eight hours to fly home. Russias big and so is China." To Mr. Blair: "Yo, Blair. What are you doing? Are you leaving?" To those of us who have travelled and have conducted business or academic affairs overseas, the lack of class and culture isn't just apparent it hinders American progess and initiatives. If you like dubs becuase of shared opinons, fine. If you like him because of some real or phantom moral stance, fine. But don't defend class and culture- at least not in front of anyone with international experience or a graduate degree because you will induce silent or overt laughter. "Yo, Blair"?. . .kids, can we please ban rednecks from the Oval Office for at least 20 years? Bush's lack of class and culture only encourages our enemies to think we're stupid and easily attacked or fooled. . ."You eight hours"? This was like a SNL skit designed to insult a senile-Regean but it was for real. . .