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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: haqihana who wrote (268392)	6/29/2002 10:35:21 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (3) of 769670

THE BUSH DYSLEXICON: OBSERVATIONS ON A NATIONAL DISORDER enigma, Regarding an important new version of Mark Crispin Miller's damning book......... "This is a must read for those that need to know who actually leads this country and a chilling wake-up call for those of us who ignore the signs or continue to stay uninvolved." I found this review to be particularly useful: amazon.com <Snip> "......It's a serious and rigorous consideration of Bush's language in his public pronouncements. It turned out to be a particularly timely read the week I looked at it because Bush had just staged his announcement of the new homeland security dept. [which he had previously said he would not do] in order to upstage FBI agent Crowley's testimony before congress. This was soon followed by the Ashcroft announcement from Moscow about the dirty bomber. All of this was very much in line with the kind of thing Miller pulls out of Bush's rhetorical strategies. The paperback updates the original hardcover with material from the first year of Bush's presidency and post-9/11 -- sadly, it would not be too hard to keep adding material to the book. I particularly liked Miller's point about the extent to which Bush always speaks of values, but never ideals. I would add that Bush's values are always limited to things that most cultures would claim for themselves as well, things like loyalty, virtue, devotion to family, neighborliness. There's nothing unique about America in this regard -- and you could even argue they are stronger in places like rural Italy or maybe even Afghanistan. But distinctive American values centered on materialism never get mentioned in Bush's speeches, although they've clealry central for him in his actual life.

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