George W. Bush’s learning disability: dyslexia

[Wang111]

“‘Dyslexia is the basics of Bush malapropisms’ . . . Los Angeles - The presidential candidate George W Bush may suffer from dyslexia, Vanity Fair magazine said on Monday in an article by best-selling author Gail Sheehy that the Bush campaign immediately denounced as untrue. Sheehy, the author of Passages who frequently writes psychological portraits of politicians, concludes that Bush’s often-mocked malapropisms on the campaign trail could stem from dyslexia, a language-based disability in which the sufferer has trouble processing words or sentences. Among the malapropisms that Sheehy cites as possibly caused by the disability are: ‘Reading is the basics for all learning’, ‘Put food on your family’ and ‘The senator cannot have it both ways. He can’t take the high horse and then claim the low road’” (Dan Whitcomb. Retrieved December 28, 2008, from http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=3&art_id=qw968735340647B200).

I point out George W. Bush’s learning disability because I don’t think everybody knows about it.

Please come see my scholastic online research at http://andrewyu-jenwang.blogspot.com/2008/12/george-w-bush-has-dyslexia.html (20 sources thus far—suggesting or indicating that Bush has dyslexia).

Submitted by Andrew Yu-Jen Wang
B.S., Summa Cum Laude, 1996
Messiah College, Grantham, PA
Lower Merion High School, Ardmore, PA, 1993

“GEORGE W. BUSH IS THE WORST PRESIDENT IN U.S. HISTORY” BLOG OF ANDREW YU-JEN WANG

http://andrewyu-jenwang.blogspot.com/2008/12/george-w-bush-has-dyslexia.html

[Kutjara]

1. I thought dyslexia just affected reading and writing.

Is this article trying to say that Shrub has some kind of verbal dyslexia?

I think there's a simpler diagnosis: he's a cretin.

[elocs]

3. I have a friend who has what must be a kind of verbal dyslexia.

You can properly pronounce a word for her and she will get it wrong, switching some letter around. She has had this all of her life and has had to suffer people mocking her because of the way she says certain words. It's also pretty common to have people refer to those with learning disabilities of one kind of another as "morons" or "cretins". I would not be proud to be one of those people.

[Kutjara]

4. I did not call Bush a cretin because of his putative learning disability.

I called him a cretin because he's a cretin.

[elocs]

8. Agreed.

But people with learning disabilities are routinely called stupid because of it.

[DJ13]

2. Thems some awful big words just to not admit he's an idiot

Disabilities we feel sorry about, but stupid is his own fault.

[Kutjara]

5. It also makes me wonder how he was able to read those 50 books a year...

...Karl Rove credited him with. Maybe they were audiobooks.

[baldguy]

6. Dyslexia doesn't explain or justify mass murder.

[Harry Monroe]

7. Stupid is, as stupid does

He's not dyslexic, he's just a moron.