“If Bush is Pinocchio, who is Gepetto?” Zell MillerIII repeats from the stage. Miller lived in Austinwhile George W. Bush was Governor of Texas. Millercuts him no slack, sneering at the President’s statedcommitment to education. “The Austin independentschool district is one of the worst in the nation,”Miller says of the district from which he earned ahigh school diploma. How, he asks, can Bush fixeducation nationally when it languished in his ownback yard?
The Atlanta videographer asks Miler if he’s related to Georgia’s ex-Governor. Miller has a predictable answer– predictable for a spoken word artist named Zell Miller III. What do you think?