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

Michael Perelman michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
Sat Aug 11 20:25:38 PDT 2001


Miller says that he is very coherent when he is sincere, say, talking about the death penalty, but his mind turns to mush when he is talking about his "compassionate" side.

On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 10:10:19PM -0500, Maria Gilmore wrote:
> 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.
>
>

-- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929

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