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
Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu