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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Dennis O'Bell who wrote (134025)5/23/2004 4:12:26 AM
From: Dr. Id  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
More on Bush from Christopher Hitchens:

Christopher Hitchens, who has taught dyslexic
students, simply calls Bush a dyslexic in a recent Nation story: "I kicked
myself hard when I read the profile of Governor George W. Bush, by my friend
and colleague Gail Sheehy....All those jokes and cartoons and websites about
his gaffes, bungles and malapropisms? We've been unknowingly teasing the
afflicted. The poor guy is obviously dyslexic, and dyslexic to the point of
near-illiteracy. Numerous experts and friends of the dynasty give Sheehy
their considered verdict to this effect. The symptoms and clues have been
staring us in the face for some time....The rhetorical and linguistic train
wrecks in the speeches of Reagan and Bush Senior were of a different
quality, arising variously from hysterical lying, brutish ignorance, senile
decay and cultural deprivation. But the problem was chiefly syntactical. The
additional humiliations of Dubya derive from utter failures of word
recognition. A man who has somehow got this far in politics and refers to
"tacular" weapons is unclear ...on the concept....His brother Neil is an
admitted dyslexic. His mother has long been a patron of various foundations
and charities associated with dyslexia. How plain it all now seems."
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