<i>Think, was there perhaps a strategic reason to paint himself so?</i><p>Socrates, at his trial before a jury of Athenians, is said to have used a variation of the Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer defense to provoke sympathy: &quot;I&#x27;m just a humble country boy, not worldly and sophisticated like you&quot;, etc.<p>Not that Bush is any Socrates, but the stratagem is the same.