The Onion once joked that this may be more due to the public they’re appealing to than inability: > In a serious miscalculation that may prove devastating to h

The Onion once joked that this may be more due to the public they’re appealing to than inability: > In a serious miscalculation that may prove devastating to his bid for a second term, President Barack Obama neglected Tuesday to simplify a statement to the point where it could readily be grasped by anyone with the vocabulary of an 8-year-old. "Instead of saying, 'There are many global variables at work here, and unless they all fall into place, we could find ourselves back in a recession,' he should have just said, 'Times are hard. We gotta be strong,'" https://www.theonion.com/in-major-gaffe-obama-forgets-to-dumb-it-down-1819573167 https://www.theonion.com/in-major-gaffe-obama-forgets-to-dum... Of course, they also joked about how absurd it would be for George W Bush to show literary depth: https://www.theonion.com/bush-regales-dinner-guests-with-impromptu-oratory-on-vi-1819567929 https://www.theonion.com/bush-regales-dinner-guests-with-imp...