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themp
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Username: Themp
Post Number: 2950
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Friday, May 26, 2006 - 11:57 am: | 
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"A jaw-dropping moment occurred in Bush and Blair’s Thursday presser: Bush said he regretted saying "bring it on" (precise wording in 2003 was "bring ‘em on") and "wanted dead or alive." He admitted he should have been more sophisticated in his use of language."
So he was wrong by his own admission. Think of the burden so many of us had of being right for all that time about those two quips and having to argue about it. It takes conservatives so long so concede to the obvious. |
notehead
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Username: Notehead
Post Number: 3329
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, May 26, 2006 - 1:47 pm: |
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A stunning precedent from the president. I suspect he suffered some kind of software glitch. |
Robert Livingston
Citizen
Username: Rob_livingston
Post Number: 1921
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Friday, May 26, 2006 - 2:39 pm: |
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It was stunning to see Bush and Blair side by side answering the same questions. Agree or not, Blair was eloquent at times, thoughtful throughout. Bush came off as unquestioned idiot, like always, a stuttering, mumbling douchebag. |
ina
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Username: Ina
Post Number: 362
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Friday, May 26, 2006 - 4:26 pm: |
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Not so fast. Check out the shot of Bush smirking and the comment from Richard Wolffe at Newsweek:
... the big giveaway was at the end of that answer, I don't know if you can see it on camera, but the President flashed a big grin to those of us sitting in the front rows. It didn't seem that he was quite as contrite as his performance.
http://dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/5/26/142512/143 |
tom
Citizen
Username: Tom
Post Number: 5008
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, May 26, 2006 - 4:39 pm: |
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ina
Citizen
Username: Ina
Post Number: 363
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Friday, May 26, 2006 - 4:53 pm: |
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Thanks, Tom. Wish I could figure out how to do that. |
llama
Citizen
Username: Llama
Post Number: 785
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, May 26, 2006 - 6:08 pm: |
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A small step towards admitting that the war was a mistake. That will come in a few years. |
The Notorious S.L.K.
Citizen
Username: Scrotisloknows
Post Number: 1510
Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Friday, May 26, 2006 - 9:51 pm: |
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RL said:
"Bush came off as unquestioned idiot, like always, a stuttering, mumbling douchebag.
Let me tweak that a bit:
Robert Livingston comes off as unquestioned idiot, like always, a stuttering, mumbling douchebag.
Much better!  |
Duncan
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Username: Duncanrogers
Post Number: 6392
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Friday, May 26, 2006 - 10:06 pm: |
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I guess I don't understand how "Wanted Dead or Alive" coming from the President of the US, who is unabashedly a Christian, yea claims he asks God's advice in matters of state, could not be seen as a grievous error by his "people". It does indeed smack of the Crusades.
And I heard that interview on NPR this morning with Richard Woolfe about the smirk. How disheartening. Its almost as if to say "yea, right".
But, smirk aside (and unless that in and of itself becomes a story) then it will read like a good contrite moment in his presidency. A little late in coming but... |
Tom Reingold
Supporter
Username: Noglider
Post Number: 14498
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Friday, May 26, 2006 - 10:41 pm: |
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I notice that Bush's speaking has improved over the years. Has anyone else?
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marie
Citizen
Username: Marie
Post Number: 1436
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Friday, May 26, 2006 - 11:50 pm: |
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President Bush's verbal speech delays are a common symptom of dyslexia.
He is dyslexic.
Yeah, I know, he's also a ...... (fill in the blank.)
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anon
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Username: Anon
Post Number: 2712
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, May 27, 2006 - 12:11 am: |
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I have never heard or read that GWB is dyslexic. On what do you base that? |
marie
Citizen
Username: Marie
Post Number: 1437
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, May 27, 2006 - 10:59 am: |
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Anon,
I don't remember where I learned about his dyslexia - may have been from a fellow teacher. In any case, I've always wished that he would speak publicly about his learning difference. |
Dr. Winston O'Boogie
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Username: Casey
Post Number: 2136
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, May 27, 2006 - 11:14 am: |
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Quote:Bush denies magazine's suggestion of dyslexia
September 12, 2000
Web posted at: 10:12 AM EDT (1412 GMT)
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republican presidential nominee George W. Bush on Tuesday denied suggestions in a Vanity Fair article that he has dyslexia.
"No, I'm not dyslexic," Bush said on ABC's "Good Morning America." "That's all I can tell you."
http://archives.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/09/12/bush.dyslexia.ap/
I can't imagine a person with dyslexia could read a teleprompter, which Bush does with ease. His flubs are limited almost entirely to extemporaneous speaking. |
tom
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Username: Tom
Post Number: 5015
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, May 27, 2006 - 12:04 pm: |
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Quote:His flubs are limited almost entirely to extemporaneous speaking.
...and personnel and policy decisions. |
Dr. Winston O'Boogie
Citizen
Username: Casey
Post Number: 2137
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, May 27, 2006 - 12:18 pm: |
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those aren't "flubs." they're catastrophes |
Jersey_Boy
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Username: Jersey_boy
Post Number: 907
Registered: 1-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, May 27, 2006 - 1:33 pm: |
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Does anyone else remember the whole bulge-in-his-jacket controversy where it was theorized that he had to listen to his speeches in an earpeice BECAUSE he couldn't read a teleprompter?
http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2004/10/08/bulge/index_np.html
That was great.
J.B. |
Tom Reingold
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Username: Noglider
Post Number: 14503
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, May 27, 2006 - 2:41 pm: |
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And we never got an answer to the mystery.
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marie
Citizen
Username: Marie
Post Number: 1438
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, May 27, 2006 - 4:07 pm: |
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Here is a partial list of famous dyslexics. It includes: George Bush senior, President Bush and President Bush's daughters. For more info on the the disorder check out the many sites on the web.
Actors or Entertainment Industry Figures:
Henry Winkler (The Fonz)
Tom Cruise
Whoopi Goldberg
Danny Glover
Harry Anderson
Daniel Stern
Bill Cosby's brother and son
Steven Spielberg
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Dustin Hoffman
Steve McQueen
Jack Nicholson
Tom Smothers
Suzanne Somers
Sylvester Stallone
Robin Williams
Lindsay Wagner
George C. Scott
George Burns
Anthony Hopkins
Bob Jimenez (TV anchorman)
Tracey Gold
Steven J. Cannell
Jay Leno
Woody Harrelson
Jamie Oliver, "The Naked Chef"
Brian Grazer, producer of "A Beautiful Mind"
Edward James Olmos
Tracey Gold, "Growing Pains"
Walt Disney
Quentin Tarantino
Lara Flynn Boyle
Keira Knightley
Dom Delouise
Dave Foley
Bruce McCulloch
Sports:
Magic Johnson
Greg Louganis (Olympic diver)
Bruce Jenner
Jackie Stewart, inducted into the Grand Prix Hall of Fame
Dexter Manley, former NFL player
Carl Lewis
Pete Rose
Nolan Ryan
Billy Blanks, Captain of 1980 U.S. Olympic Karate Team, Creator of Tae-Bo
Terry Bradshaw
Rulon Gardner, Gold Medal Winner in Greco-Roman wrestling, 2000 Summer Olympics
Adam Heidt, Luge competitor
Jim Shea, Jr., Gold Medal Winner in Skeleton, 2002 Winter Olympics
Stan Wattles, Indy race car driver
Ellie Hawkins, rock climber
Eric Wynalda, professional soccer player
Neil Smith, NFL
Don Coryell, San Diego football coach (NFL & NCAA)
Duncan Goodhew, Swimmer
Bob Anderson, coach of Olympic wrestling team
Politicians:
Winston Churchill
Benjamin Franklin
Woodrow Wilson
Nelson Rockefeller
Thomas Kean, governor of New Jersey
Gaston Caperton, governor of West Virginia
Frank Dunkle, director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
John F. Kennedy
Robert Kennedy
Luci Baines Johnson Nugent
Congresswoman Carolyn McCarthy
James Carville, Political Analyst
Peter Leonard, member, State House of Representatives, New Hampshire
Julius Caesar
Andrew Jackson
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Anwar Sadat
Gavin Newsom
Military:
General George Patton
Dwight D. Eisenhower
General Westmoreland
Napoleon Bonaparte
Artists:
Rodin
Leonardo da Vinci
Gustave Flaubert
Robert Rauschenberg
Chuck Close, artist (photorealist portraits)
Margaret Whittington
Allison Merriweather
Scott Adams (creator of Dilbert comic strip)
Charles Schulz (creator of Peanuts comic strip)
Ansel Adams
Fredrick Law Olmsted, Landscape Engineer: designed Central Park in New York City and Chicago's Grant Park
Robert "Bob" Fowler, Sculptor & jewelry maker
Robert Toth
Mark Wilkinson, kitchen & furniture designer
Martha Sturdy, Designer
P. Buckley Moss
Michelangelo
Pablo Picasso
Vincent Van Gogh
Musicians:
Harry Belafonte
Cher
Beethoven
John Lennon
Mozart
Aimee Osbourne (Ozzie's eldest)
Jewel
Science & Medicine:
Thomas Edison
Michael Faraday
James Clerk Maxwell
Nicolai Tesla
Albert Einstein
Alexander Graham Bell
The Wright Brothers
Benjamin Franklin
Henry Ford
Galileo
Steven Hawkings
Louis Pasteur
Tom Francis (AIDS researcher)
Jack Horner (paleontologist)
Baruj Benacerraf, MD (winner of the Nobel prize in Physiology)
Charles "Pete" Conrad (astronaut)
Dr. Fred Epstein, Brain Surgeon
Dr. Edward Hollowell (ADD Specialist)
Dr. Larry Silvers (ADD Specialist)
Paul MacCready, "Engineer of the Century", invented "Gossamer Condor"
Dr. Harvey Cushing, Father of Modern Brain Surgery
Charles Darwin
William Spicer
Writers and Poets:
William Butler Yeats
Agatha Christie
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Hans Christian Anderson
Richard Cohen, syndicated columnist for the Washington Post
Marc Flanagan, TV writer and producer
Elizabeth D. Squire
Edgar Allen Poe
Thomas Thoreau
Jules Verne
John Irving
Elizabeth Daniels Squire
Robert Scheer
Fanny Flagg, wrote "Fried Green Tomatoes"
Richard Ford, wrote "Independence Day"
Patricia Polacco, Author and Illustrator of children's books
Norla Chee, Native American Poet
Victor Villasenor, Mexican-American Writer
Debbie Macomber, Novelist
John Schumacher, Cookbook Author and Chef
Mark Twain
Entrepreneurs & Business Leaders:
Charles Schwab
Bill Hewlett, co-founder of HP
Richard C. Strauss, real-estate financier
Mark Torrance, CEO, Musak Corporation
Malcolm Goodridge III, senior vice president, American Express
William Doyle, chairman, William Doyle Auction Galleries of New York
Paul J. Orfalea, founder and chairman, Kinko's copy shops
G. Chris Anderson, vice-chairman of PaineWebber
Weyerhauser family
William Wrigley, Jr.
Russell Varian
Craig McCaw (McCaw Cellular)
Fred Friendly (former CBS News president)
David Murdock, CEO, Dole Foods
John Chambers, CEO, Cisco Systems
Richard Branson, Founder, Virgin Corporation (Airline, Records)
Diane Swonk, Bank One
Tommy Hilfiger, Fashion Designer
Donald Winkler, CEO of Ford Motor Credit
Horst Rechelbacher, Founder of Aveda Corporation
Other:
Ann Bancroft, arctic explorer
Roger W. Wilkins, scholar and head of the Pulitzer Prize Board
Hugh Newell Jacobsen, famous architect, winner of 90 different awards for design, including 20 Architectural Record Awards for the best house design of the year.
Son of former U.S. President, George H.W. Bush
Prince Charles
Erin Brockovich, Enviromental Activist
Dexter Scott King, son of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. & President & CEO of The King Center in Atlanta, GA
Peter W.D. Wright, Special Education Attorney
* Ansel Adams**
* Hans Christian Anderson*
* Ann Bancroft
* Beethoven*
* Harry Belafonte*
* Alexander Graham Bell
* Robert Blake (Actor, "Baretta")*
* Neils Bohr*
* David Boies, J.D.*
* James Boswell**
* Gregory Boyington*
* Richard Branson*
* Sir Richard Francis Burton
* President George Bush***
* Children of George Bush*
* George Burns*
* Charlotte/Emily Bronte**
* Admiral Richard Byrd
* Lord Byron**
* Stephen Cannell*
* Thomas Carlyle
* Andrew Carnegie
* Jim Carrey**
* Lewis Carroll*
* Gen. H. Norman Charles
* Prince Charles*
* Thomas Chatterton**
* Cher*
* Agatha Christie*
* Winston Churchill*
* Samuel Clemens**
* Samuel T. Coleridge**
* Christopher Columbus
* John Corcoran*
* Bill & Ennis Cosby*
* Walter Cronkite*
* Tom Cruise*
* Harvey Cushing, M.D.*
* Leonardo da Vinci*
* Salvador Dali**
* Dom Deluise*
* Oscar de la Renta*
* Emily Dickinson**
* Walt Disney*
* Patty Duke
* Dean Edell, M.D.**
* Thomas Edison* **
* Paul Ehrlich, M.D.*
* Albert Einstein*
* Dwight D. Eisenhower*
* Ralph Waldo Emerson**
* Fred Epstien, M.D.*
* Ernest & Marel
* Michael Faraday*
* F. Scott Fitzgerald*
* Edward Fitzgerald**
* Malcomb Forbes**
* Fannie Flagg*
* Henry Ford**
* Rick Fox
* Benjamin Franklin**
* Robert Frost**
* Zsa Zsa Gabor**
* Tom Gainsborough**
* Galileo
* Bill Gates**
* Danny Glover*
* Tracey Gold*
* Whoopie Goldberg*
* Susan Hampshire
* Handel
* Mariette Hartley*
* Stephen Hawking*
* Wm Randolph Hearst
* Ernest Hemingway*
* Bill Hewlett
* Alfred Hitchcock
* Dustin Hoffman
* Anthony Hopkins
* Howard Hughes**
* Victor Hugo*
* John Irving*
* William and Henry James
* Thomas Jefferson*
* Bruce Jenner*
* Bob Jimenez*
* "Magic" Johnson*
* Samuel Johnson
* Michael Jordan
* Carl Jung, M.D.*
* King Karl XI of Sweden*
* John F. Kennedy* **
* Robert Kennedy*
* Jason Kidd
* Evel Knievel and Robbie **
* Charles Lamb*
* Bill Lear (Founder, Learjet) **
* John Lennon*
* Jay Leno*
* Lewis and Clark **
* Carl Lewis*
* Abraham Lincoln**
* Anne Morrow Lindberg **
* Vince Lombardi*
* Greg Louganis*
* Amy Lowell
* Robert Lowell**
* Gustav Mahler**
* Dexter Manley
* Abraham Maslow, M.D.
* James Clark Maxwell
* Steve & Chad McQueen**
* Herman Melville*
* P. Buckley Moss*
* Mozart**
* David H. Murdock*
* Napoleon
* Nasser
* Isaac Newton*
* Jack Nicholson**
* Nick Nolte*
* Nostradamus
* Luci Baines Johnson Nugent* **
* Dan O'Brien
* Eugene O'Neill**
* Paul J. Orfalea*
* Louis Pasteur*
* Peter Pattison*
* Gen. George Patton*
* H. Ross Perot
* Kitty Petty**
* Pablo Picasso
* Edgar Allan Poe
* Cole Porter**
* Elvis Presley**
* Lewis T. Preston*
* Puccini
* Sergei Rachmaninoff
* Dan Rather
* Robert Rauschenberg*
* Buddy Rich*
* Eddie Rickenbacker*
* Guy Ritchie*
* Joan Rivers**
* John D. Rockefeller*
* Nelson Rockefeller*
* Rodin*
* Pete Rose**
* John Ruskin**
* Nolan Ryan
* Eleanor Roosevelt
* Anwar Sadat
* Pierre Salinger
* Charles Schulz*
* Robert Schumann**
* Charles Schwab*
* Gen. Norman Schwartzkopf
* George C. Scott*
* Anne Sexton**
* George Bernard Shaw* **
* Tom Smothers*
* Socrates
* Suzanne Somers*
* Steven Spielberg
* Sylvester Stallone* **
* Robert Louis Stevenson*
* Jackie Stewart**
* James Stewart*
* Richard C. Strauss
* Sara Teasdale
* Peter Tchaikovsky*
* Lord Alfred Tennyson
* Nicolai Tesla
* Pietro Testa*
* Henry David Thoreau
* Thomas Thoreau*
* Leo Tolstoy
* Alberto Tomba**
* Mark Torrance
* Ted Turner
* Vincent Van Gogh**
* Russell Varian*
* Jules Verne
* Werner von Braun*
* Lindsay Wagner*
* Mike Wallace
* Wendy Wasserstein*
* Marc Weinberg*
* Thomas G. West*
* General Westmoreland*
* Weyerhauser Family*
* Russell White
* Walt Whitman*
* Jamie Williams
* Robin Williams**
* Tennessee Williams**
* Woodrow Wilson*
* Henry Winkler*
* Stevie Wonder*
* Virginia Woolf**
* F.W. Woolworth
* Wright Brothers**
* Frank Lloyd Wright**
* Wrigley*
* William Butler Yeats
* Emile Zola*
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campbell29
Citizen
Username: Campbell29
Post Number: 455
Registered: 4-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, May 27, 2006 - 4:15 pm: |
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Are you saying that we should compare Bush's oratorical skills to the likes of Churchill and Kennedy, because they are all dsylexic? Somehow, I don't think putting Bush in this kind of company is going to enhance our opinion of his ability to overcome his handicap. What is does suggest, is that while people who are dsylexic might have trouble decoding written word, they are certainly capable of inspiring leadership and giving coherent speeches ( skills which seems noticably absent in GWB) |
Nohero
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Username: Nohero
Post Number: 5448
Registered: 10-1999
| | Posted on Saturday, May 27, 2006 - 5:27 pm: |
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As the good Doctor pointed out, President Bush denies that he is dyslexic.
Is Marie accusing the President of "fibbing"?
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Dave
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Username: Dave
Post Number: 9619
Registered: 4-1997
| | Posted on Saturday, May 27, 2006 - 5:31 pm: |
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Can someone post the list of dyslexic morons so we can compare?
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marie
Citizen
Username: Marie
Post Number: 1439
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, May 27, 2006 - 6:10 pm: |
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campbell29,
Pretty sure NOTHING I write or say about GWB will enhance anyone's opinion of President Bush - just pointing out that GWB's difficulties with public speaking and teleprompter reading are related to a learning difference, and not as a result of an intellectual deficiency, as his detractors continue to imply. I've never held GWB's weak oratorial skills against him, knowing that he is dyslexic - I believe GWB is an inspiration to the learning differenced community and wish he would publicly speak to it.
Have a Memorable Memorial Day Weekend. |
marie
Citizen
Username: Marie
Post Number: 1440
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, May 27, 2006 - 6:26 pm: |
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Dave,
Your comment is offensive to the learning differenced communitiy - you should ban yourself and do some reading on the subject ;)
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Joe
Citizen
Username: Gonets
Post Number: 1240
Registered: 2-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, May 27, 2006 - 6:39 pm: |
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I believe GWB is an inspiration to the learning differenced community and wish he would publicly speak to it.
Sort of like Jim McGreevey being an inspiration to the gay community before he came out of the closet. |
anon
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Username: Anon
Post Number: 2719
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, May 27, 2006 - 7:54 pm: |
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Amazing list. Includes Socrates and some guy who was head of the Fish and Wildlife Service. 
How can anyone know if Socrates was dyslexic? |
tom
Citizen
Username: Tom
Post Number: 5019
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, May 27, 2006 - 11:19 pm: |
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There's still no excuse for his lack of curiosity, his unwillingness to learn from or admit mistakes. Is there really any functional difference for someone who can't learn, and someone who won't? |
campbell29
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Username: Campbell29
Post Number: 456
Registered: 4-2002
| | Posted on Sunday, May 28, 2006 - 12:31 am: |
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I would love to see the test results for Michaelangelo, Galileo and "Chicago's Grant Park". |
3ringale
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Username: Threeringale
Post Number: 219
Registered: 1-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, May 28, 2006 - 8:42 am: |
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Did you hear about the dyslexic guy who went to a toga party dressed as a goat?
Cheers |
Tom Reingold
Supporter
Username: Noglider
Post Number: 14506
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, May 28, 2006 - 10:33 am: |
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Either Marie is mistaken or Bush lied about his dyslexia. It hardly matters, though.
I don't think dyslexia can explain his bad speaking skills, because so many on that above list are/were excellent speakers. I don't think dyslexia affects speaking ability.
There must be another reason he's so bad at speaking. We can only guess what it is.
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jem
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Username: Jem
Post Number: 1548
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, May 28, 2006 - 10:50 am: |
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My guess: a deep-seated laziness coupled with an unshakeable sense of entitlement. Why work at anything, including public speaking skills, when everything has been handed to you for your entire life? |
John Caffrey
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Username: Jerseyjack
Post Number: 261
Registered: 11-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, May 28, 2006 - 1:12 pm: |
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Tom, you wrote that Bush's speaking has improved. Did you see the post last week which linked to videos of Bush speaking without notes in 1994 and the campaign debate speach in 2004?
In 1994, Bush was articulate. The content was assholic but the speach pattern was clear. Fast-forward to 2004. The content of the speach was assholic as usual but the speach pattern was disjointed. His speaking ability has deteriorated.
If he was suffering from dsylexia, the speach pattern would have been disjointed in 1994.
To repeat, an Atlantic Monthly article attributed the speach patterns to pre-senile demintia, a precurser to Alzheimers.
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marie
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Username: Marie
Post Number: 1441
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, May 28, 2006 - 5:11 pm: |
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Tom,
Did bush lie about his dyslexia? I have a feeling he's splitting hairs - as I said before I wish he would speak publicly about it. Anyway, dyslexia certainly does affect one's speech:
Semantic dyslexia
Semantic Dyslexia is, as the name suggests, a subtype of the group of Cognitive disorders known as dyslexia. Those who suffer from semantic dyslexia are unable to properly attach words to their meanings in reading and/or in speech. When confronted with the word 'diamond', they may understand it as 'sapphire', 'shiny' or 'diamonds'; when asking for a bus ticket may ask for some paper or simply 'a thing'.
Happy Memorial Day!
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Tom Reingold
Supporter
Username: Noglider
Post Number: 14509
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, May 28, 2006 - 7:01 pm: |
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That could explain why he said disassemble when he meant dissemble.
If he really has a disability, I agree, it would be good for many people if he spoke of it. His resistance to do so shows some sort of emotion around it, such as shame.
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Just The Aunt
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Username: Auntof13
Post Number: 5199
Registered: 1-2004
| | Posted on Monday, May 29, 2006 - 11:34 pm: |
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Marie
I find it hard to believe he is dyslexic. I don't think he'd be able to read a TelePrompTer if he was. |
Scully
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Username: Scully
Post Number: 555
Registered: 8-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 30, 2006 - 12:22 am: |
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'knowing that he is dyslexic - I believe GWB is an inspiration to the learning differenced community and wish he would publicly speak to it. '
Check out speeches of his from the early 90's. You don't 'catch' learning disabiliteis in middle age. |
Robert Livingston
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Username: Rob_livingston
Post Number: 1922
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 30, 2006 - 9:14 am: |
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Well, if Bush is dyslexic and denies it, it's just consistent with his pattern of lying about everything. More likely, Rove believed if he admitted it he'd come off as weak to his psychopathic supporters.
Chances are, however, his sputtering way of talking and making little sense is leftover from his booze and coke days. Hey, we were all taught that •••• kills brain cells. And word is he's boozing again (with those approval ratings, wouldn't you). No word on any further coke use, but I mean, c'mon, just listen to him... |
marie
Citizen
Username: Marie
Post Number: 1443
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 30, 2006 - 11:27 am: |
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Just the Aunt,
Again, dyslexia is a very broad spectrum disorder and can have a wide range of symptoms from mild to profound in nature. Some dyslexics can and some can't read from a teleprompter - it all depends on the the level and type of dyslexia the person is diagnosed with.
Scully,
I would guess that many of GWB's speeches from the early days were memorized. I would also guess that he currently doesn't have the time to do that kind of memorization and therefore, relies more on teleprompters and other visual aids and tools.
RL,
Many of his detractors have attributed his bumbling speech to the effects of his drinking and drugging days - obviously that can't have helped. But, his speech and reading issues continue to appear to be classic LD/Dyslexia to those who are familiar with the disorder. Where have you heard that he's abusing drugs again? I hope and pray for his continued sobriety - obviously a sober president is better than a non-sober one... |
Robert Livingston
Citizen
Username: Rob_livingston
Post Number: 1923
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 30, 2006 - 11:37 am: |
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marie: I never said he's abusing drugs, but that he is most likely drinking again is not really a secret, and is talked about often in columns and blogs (both respectable and not). There was that picture of him with a beer at the G-8 summit in 2004 I believe. If I remember correctly, he said it was non-alcoholic, but seriously, what's a born-again 12-stepper doing with NA in the first place? Could only lead to bad things. |
The Notorious S.L.K.
Citizen
Username: Scrotisloknows
Post Number: 1518
Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 30, 2006 - 11:49 am: |
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Funny, RL has trouble with Dubya drinking an NA beverage when he has admitted he likes to "tie one on" every Friday night...
Go figure...
-SLK |
Robert Livingston
Citizen
Username: Rob_livingston
Post Number: 1924
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 30, 2006 - 3:01 pm: |
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SLK writes: "Robert Livingston comes off as unquestioned idiot, like always, a stuttering, mumbling douchebag."
You're not even trying anymore. Firstly, you're insults are just cut and paste jobs. Very lame. Secondly, they don't even make any sense in the context. Are you saying I stutter and mumble when I write? Is this possible? What the f---? |
The Notorious S.L.K.
Citizen
Username: Scrotisloknows
Post Number: 1530
Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 30, 2006 - 10:12 pm: |
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RL,
Ok, lets try tweaking your statement even more:
"Robert Livingston comes off as unquestioned idiot[ic] douchebag."
Bingo!
-SLK
BTW, "unquestioned?" What in God's name is that? |
Robert Livingston
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Username: Rob_livingston
Post Number: 1925
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 31, 2006 - 9:49 am: |
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"Robert Livingston comes off as unquestioned idiot[ic] douchebag."
Wow. You can say stuff like that here now? That's good to know... |
Hoops
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Username: Hoops
Post Number: 1388
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 31, 2006 - 9:59 am: |
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SLK - I believe that you have not parsed RLs words well enough. When he stated that
Quote:Bush came off as unquestioned idiot, like always, a stuttering, mumbling douchebag
First he did not include the word 'an' between the words as and unquestioned, which would make the statement grammatically correct and as always true in its own right, however I believe he was using Bush as a metaphor for certain stubborn MOL Bush supporters and apologists.
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themp
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Username: Themp
Post Number: 2967
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 31, 2006 - 10:28 am: |
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Dom Delouise? You spelled it wrong, It's Dom Deluise.
He always seemed so together in Canonball Run and Smokey and the Bandit II. |
Rastro
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Username: Rastro
Post Number: 3265
Registered: 5-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 31, 2006 - 10:38 am: |
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I wonder how many of those are actually diagnozed dyslexics (by a qualified professional), and how many are remotely diagnosed like Teri Schiavo by Bill Frist.
Puccini?
Rodin?
Socrates?
Isaac Newton?
Nostradamus?
Napoleon? |
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