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To: Dennis O'Bell who wrote (134025)	5/23/2004 4:00:48 AM
From: Dr. Id	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Hitchins is certainly right about Moore's "qualities". Since you seem to find Hichens credible and enjoy his views of Michael Moore, here's a view that Hichens expressed about your own George W. Bush: "Uncultured...uneducated...incurious...a glove puppet and proud of it, etc.." He said, "Mr Bush is still one of the most unqualified people ever to have run for the highest office, let alone to have attained it. There will never come a time when he reads for pleasure or takes a serious interest in another country. But the oldest political joke in America has a double-edged point to it. In this society, anybody can be President.. Having failed by a good margin to collect a majority of the popular vote, he had succeeded-by delegating things to leatherly old legal sharks of his father's generation-in getting a majority of the electoral votes from a state run by his brother... "The Presidency was owed to the Supreme Court." Hitchens also said that on 9-11 Bush panicked and hid. "So the Mayor of New York became leader of the free world for a whole week.... "Overseas, he has tried to have it both ways: finally paying his country's UN dues while scuttling the ABM Treaty. His vices are, in other words, what they would have been anyway-the vices of a provincial American conservative who preferred oilmen as friends., or even oilmen to friends... "George Bush chokes on a pretzel while gaping at the television screen, and comes away with a loud blush on his cheek. What a free gift that would have been. I can do the routine in my sleep: since he utters chunks of twisted and convoluted matter it's no wonder that he ingests the raw material before spewing it."

To: Dennis O'Bell who wrote (134025)	5/23/2004 4:12:26 AM
From: Dr. Id	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to 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."