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The Two Dubyas
by Bob Wallace
Like nearly everyone else in the world, I'm puzzled by Bush's speech impediment. When
the
man talks about "strategery," or how he's been "mis-underestimated," or "foreign-handed
foreign policy," or "putting food on your family" he appears to be stupid. Yet he's
outsmarted the Democrats at nearly every turn, so he does have some intelligence, even
if
he isn't particularly educated ("There are blacks in Brazil?" "Who's Leonardo
DiCaprio?").
Recently I ran across Mark Crispin Miller's book about Bush's ever- growing Blob of
malapropisms, Dyslexicon: Observations on a National Disorder. Although Miller is
obviously
a liberal, he tries to be fair with Bush. He does not believe him to be an imbecile,
or a
puppet.
He believes Bush is a "sociopathic personality...incapable of empathy." On that point I
believe Miller is completely wrong: the Clintons appear to be psychopathic, not George
Bush.
But Miller does points out something quite disturbing about Bush: he's only tongue-tied
when he's trying to speak normally. When he's angry or punitive, or talking about
vengeance, his gaffes disappear. The best example of an angry Bush is when he snapped
at a reporter who was speaking French in front of him. He spoke clearly, quickly, and
forcefully. His retort was actually pretty witty. On the other hand, there was the
inarticulate
Bush in Nashville, when he tried to say, "Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice,
shame on me," and it came out, "Fool me once...shame...shame on...you...fool me! Can't
get fooled again!"
"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," Miller said. "When he struts and
thumps
his chest, his syntax and grammar are fine."
In that sense Bush reminds me of stutterers, who stutter only when trying to talk
normally.
When they sing, their stutter disappears. The reason for this is because they're using
a
different part of their brain when they sing instead of talk.
Something similar appears to be happening with Bush. When he tries to talk normally, he
becomes inarticulate. But when he's angry, he's using a different part of his brain,
and his
foot-in-mouth disease disappears.
This is a little disturbing, since it suggests that Bush's brain works better when he's
vindictive. And he certainly does appear to be vindictive, considering the fact that
one of the
reasons he wants to invade Iraq is because he thinks Saddam Hussein "tried to kill my
dad." That's not only vindictive, it's childish and petty.
This vindictiveness, this desire for vengeance, may explain how he's successfully made
fools of the Democrats, since they did bring his father down and humiliated him. Dubya
may
not be able to say "strategy," but his brain, when angry, got revved up enough to help
outsmart the Democrats and deliver Congress to the Republicans.
Bush appears to have some kind of brain disorder, or some kind of minimal brain damage.
Was it due to his decades of heavy drinking? I don't know, but that possibility
certainly
exists.
If we're dealing with a man whose brain works best when contemplating revenge and
violence, this may also explain his attempt to start WWIII, although I'm sure he
thinks he's
trying to prevent it instead of start it. Does he feel his best, his most competent,
when
plotting war and destruction?
This is one thing I will say: it is a grave mistake to just play Bush for laughs, in
light of what
he's leading the US into.
December 2, 2002
Bob Wallace [send him mail], a former newspaper reporter and editor, and an incurable
lover of puns from St. Louis, is now traveling the country.
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