the "curse" of being smart

Here's a quote from Bush's long-time crony and right-hand man which may point to a calculating dumbing-down of the President's persona:

"As people do better, they start voting like Republicans
-- unless they have too much education and vote Democratic,
which proves there can be too much of a good thing."

Karl Rove, Bush's Chief Strategist and Senior Advisor

It's the old "elitist intellectual" demonization thing...I guess that includes everyone here on this board.

So mebbe they actually advised him to deliberately mispronounce nuclear as nucular. 'Tis possible. Guys like Rove don't let much get past them, exspecially the little details.