bulldogg
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So I lied about the sex part... that just leaves us with the last one- dyslexia. George Bush is dyslexic. He, his family and political handlers can deny it all they want but it does not change whether or not he truly does have dyslexia. It would not be the first nor last time that any politician has denied something that they know is false. Nor would it be the first nor last time a politician has denied something because they know they have plausible deniability. In this particular case George Bush has never been tested for dyslexia so that despite all the signs and indications he can with clear conscience say he did not have sexual relations wi... wait wrong president... GW can claim he does not have dyslexia.
Going through the Texas school system of the 1950's and 60's it was highly unlikely for anyone to even KNOW about the disorder let alone pick out the symptoms of an at risk child. And even if they had the political dynasty of the Bush's would not have let something like this occur as it would mar the chances for GW to have a future in politics.
The part I find funny is that people who constantly berate this president for being a liar are so willing to believe this statement from George that he is not dyslexic. Even though he later said he "had dyslexia" in a later interview. But I know why they believe it... because if he isn't dyslexic then they can feel comfortable calling him stupid.
I will leave the rest of the argument to "Bush Watch" an decidedly anti-bush site but in terms of this issue a very decisive and logical argument is formed to support the claim that Bush has dyslexia. The strongest proof I would ask people to notice comes from actual experts in the field of diagnosing adults and children with dyslexia and their verdicts.
Bon apetit...
Going through the Texas school system of the 1950's and 60's it was highly unlikely for anyone to even KNOW about the disorder let alone pick out the symptoms of an at risk child. And even if they had the political dynasty of the Bush's would not have let something like this occur as it would mar the chances for GW to have a future in politics.
The part I find funny is that people who constantly berate this president for being a liar are so willing to believe this statement from George that he is not dyslexic. Even though he later said he "had dyslexia" in a later interview. But I know why they believe it... because if he isn't dyslexic then they can feel comfortable calling him stupid.
I will leave the rest of the argument to "Bush Watch" an decidedly anti-bush site but in terms of this issue a very decisive and logical argument is formed to support the claim that Bush has dyslexia. The strongest proof I would ask people to notice comes from actual experts in the field of diagnosing adults and children with dyslexia and their verdicts.
Bon apetit...
He also has a severe grammar problem ("Is our children learning?) as well as serious difficulties with syntax ("I am against hard quotas, quotas they basically delineate based upon whatever.") His sense of parallelism is faulty ("It is not Reaganesque to support a tax plan that is Clinton in nature.'') and his use of conventional figures of speech are often unclear ("We ought to make the pie higher"). Brian Williams told Bush that one writer recently suggested he may be dyslexic. Bush called the suggestion "foolish" and said the writer was "writing fiction." Dyslexia, which affects how a person processes language, has been said to run in families and affects males in particular. Ex-President Bush's language difficulties in public were described as "dyslexic" more than once, and Barbara Bush wrote an article at that time in the Washington Post about W's younger brother Neil's dyslexia. Given that as background, it's curious that Bush has been so dismissive about the possibility that his "tortured syntax" and "verbal howlers" are the results of dyslexia. --Politex, 9/20/00
There is evidence that Bush knew he was going to be asked the question of his possible dyslexia weeks before advance copies of Gail Sheehy's Vanity Fair article on Bush reached reporters. By then, the decision was apparantly made to stonewall reporters with misleading responses to the question. When the story broke on Monday, Sept. 11, one aide suggested Sheehy had George W. mixed up with brother Neil, who has dyslexia. Communications Director Karen Hughes said to reporters, "No, the governor does not have dyslexia. In this case fiction is stranger that truth." Bush spokesman Ray Sullivan went even further, telling reporters that Sheehy "was informed prior to publication of this article that the governor is not dyslexic....This is not a credible story. Most journalists when presented with the facts would choose to report the facts rather than something that is not true." (Reuters, 9/11) To sum up, then, the Bush response to Sheehy's story about dyslexia and Bush is that she's not a good reporter because she's presenting fiction in the guise of fact and that she's a liar. These are pretty heavy charges against someone who never wrote that Bush was dyslexic. The closest she comes to doing so is to write that a Bush essay written at Phillips Academy "may have been...a hint of possible dyslexia." Why, then, is the Bush camp so upset with the Sheehy story?
My father is 71 and has had dyslexia all his life. He didn't make it past 3rd grade, and still can't read or write. He flubs words EXACTLY like G. W. Bush has all his life. I think I even inherited a touch of it myself. Nothing to be ashamed of, many great historical figures apparently had it. It can be embarrassing I'm sure, like stuttering. But its hard not to laugh when its coming from someone running for president. everyone has a little drawl or twang or speech peculiarity, but the problem with Bush is much deeper. its not so much that he's dumb, but that he doesn't have a clue. He needs a script to sound coherent. you can tell when things have been written for him, and when he wings it. What's really unsettling is the way he overpronounces words now, placing hyphens between syllables and slowing way down to avoid stumbling, like the way he pronounced 'mus-cu-lar scle-ro-sis' the other day. And after the last month, the press is simply waiting for flubs and bloopers and counting them all up for articles.