The Metro Times from a couple weeks ago had an article by Jeremy Voas on The Bush Dyslexicon by Mark Crispin Miller. I think this excerpt from the article pretty much says it all:
When he conceived the book, Miller expected it to be a more mirthful examination of Bush’s spectacular malapropisms. But after parsing nearly every utterance issued by Dubya’s tortured tongue in the past decade, Miller noticed a disturbing trend:
Bush’s gibberish disappears when he speaks of aggression. When he speaks of virutally anything else, however, he turns back into a blithering dunderhead.
Even the liberal intelligentsia is loathe to embrace Miller’s hypothesis.
“People get very angry at me when I say this. They want him to be a moron, they want him to be someone they feel superior to,” Miller tells me. “If you read the book, you must acknowledge the fact that on certain subjects Bush is perfectly lucid.
“He has continued to stumble when he tries to sound idealistic and continues to speak with relative coherence when the theme is punishment, revenge, or death.
“His comfort with tough talk is not evidence of any particular skill as commander in chief. All it really tells us is that he likes to strike that posture, he likes to thump his chest and make threats. I don’t think that’s good enough.”
