SOTU ("Drink! Drink! Drink!")

[Liza Featherstone]

Well, you might be right. Just after he was "elected" there was a Vanity
Fair article detailing the evidence that he was learning disabled. I assumed
at the time that this was an unnecessary slur on the learning disabled, but
I agree, it's possible.

Liza


> From: Michael Pollak <mpollak at panix.com>
> Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 22:23:33 -0500 (EST)
> To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> Subject: Re: SOTU ("Drink! Drink! Drink!")
> 
> 
> On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Liza Featherstone wrote:
> 
>> The man isn't an intelligent person dealing with a learning disability
> 
> Actually, you know, he might be just that.  Isn't he dyslexic?
> 
> There are a lot of dyslexics who grow up to be an odd combination of smart
> and (sometimes belligerently) illiterate.  Supposedly Bush does have
> remarkable powers of one-on-one charm that are hard to imagine based on
> his public persona.  Perhaps that's where his intelligence is on display
> -- his power to read personal cues up close.
> 
> Michael