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Bush anything but a moron

02.14.03 | 5 Comments

While putting together a humor book listing President Bush’s many speech gaffes, author Mark Miller came to a disconcerting conclusion:

bq. “Bush is not an imbecile. He’s not a puppet. I think that Bush is a sociopathic personality. I think he’s incapable of empathy. He has an inordinate sense of his own entitlement, and he’s a very skilled manipulator. And in all the snickering about his alleged idiocy, this is what a lot of people miss.”

I put little to no faith in psychiatric diagnoses made from the confort of a barkalounger. But I do put a lot of stock in the detection of patterns:

bq. “He has no trouble speaking off the cuff when he’s speaking punitively, when he’s talking about violence, when he’s talking about revenge. When he struts and thumps his chest, his syntax and grammar are fine,” Miller said. It’s only when he leaps into the wild blue yonder of compassion, or idealism, or altruism, that he makes these hilarious mistakes.”

I am _not_ convinced that the Commander in Chief has anti-social personality disorder: I find it difficult to believe that something this big wouldn’t have been caught before. But then I remember him mocking Faye Tucker – a convert to his own evangelical faith – on the night of her execution. I’ll be keeping an eye out.

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