Bush the "Bafoon", or "no fool"?

[Maria Gilmore]

Mark Crispin Miller's new book "The Bush Dyslexicon" explains his take on
Bush as no idiot, either.  Probably the most non-intellectual president
ever; as a consequence, way out of his depth in many regards, and as a
result of that, sometimes overwhelmed; and he obviously didn't knock himself
out hitting the books at Yale and Harvard; but none of this means a lack of
intelligence per se, or a lack of purpose.  Miller dissects him as a very
canny political animal who relishes the blood-sport aspects of politics, he
points out that Bush Jr was an integral part of the team that got his dad
elected president in '88, with one of the-if not the-slimiest campaigns of
the modern era.  Crispin calls him no less than the long-awaited heir to the
legacy of Richard Nixon at his Darth Vader worst...
I think this article is a little too conspiratorial,
but makes plenty of valid points...  I especially
liked the first paragraph--KRD

DUBYA is off on holiday after only six, hardly
strenuous, months in the White House. The burden of a
30-hour week is showing. Community workers in
Sighthill should be so lucky. The only fly in George's
liberally applied ointment is that foreign media
continue to parade him as a buffoon.