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Uses Bush's well-known slip-ups to make a larger point about changes in political rhetoric in the U.S. (Add picture)

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DrEntropy (40)
01/17/2007
A lightweight and tendentious psychological analysis of 'W', based on his public statements. Miller does, however, makes one worthy contribution to Dubyaology. His introduction compares Bush to previous presidents, and shows that he had less preparation for the job of the presidency than *any* president, going back to the 19th century (even the hapless Warren G. Harding was better prepared). The governorship of Texas is little more than a ceremonial position, and GW's education was that of a typical wastrel playboy. Dubya's combination of inexperience and intellectual laziness should have disqualified him from the presidency. Instead, they have made him the perfect 'front man' for others, most notably his own Vice President.

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Loerke (51)
01/17/2007
I was a little underwhelmed by this one. Miller tries to draw some far-reaching conclusions based on Bush's struggles with English: something about how life in the public sphere has come to favor the kind of incoherence and doublespeak Bush has so thoroughly mastered. But I ended up enjoying the book more for the many long quotations illustrating Bush's stupidity, which I could just as well have gotten from Jacob Weisberg's annual collection of Bushisms. But I did love Miller's description of Bush's language as a form of "West Texas Ebonics." Overall, I expected more from a college prof.

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