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Summary: Sad, but true - he is a perfect president
Review: What the previous reviewers missed is that he is not
a bad president at all - considering the current
state of mind/ intellect of the current "average"
voter (don't ask me, what I mean by average - as
you can guess, I am just as mad and bitter as all
the other reviewers).I read this quote in the Times recently: "Although I
am concerned with the environment, I am buying an SUV,
since I care more about the safety of my family.
Driving a small car these days would be like taking a
knife to a gun fight." This did not come from someone in an institution for
the mentally retarded, or an audience member of the
Jerry Springer show.
Just an "average citizen" from Texas. Or, consider the example of the "typical American
family" the Bush campaign made up to demonstrate the
effect of the tax cut. The head of the family was an
employee in a high school.
What employee, you may be asking... A math teacher?
Nah, forget it. Math is for geeks, no one would
relate to that. A history teacher? That is more like
it, but not quite... You got it! A football coach. After all, you need
someone, who is obviously a useful member of society!
People apparently bought this, and got the president
they deserve.
Rating:
Summary: We Are Not Alone
Review: The most frightening aspect of the selection of George Bush to the Presidency of the United States of America, for myself and other's who watched in horror as the process unfolded, was the lack of connection with others that felt the way we did. Where was the Voice of REASON? Where could we go to hear the RAGE of fellow Americans about what was happening? The media was carrying on as if all of this was just normal! Even NPR was telling us basically to "Get over it!"
This book along with The Betrayal of America, helped me personally to just survive! It was like bread to the starving. Such a relief to know that somebody else saw, and heard, and knew that what happened was nothing short of the total desecration of our precious democracy!
I carried these 2 books with me everywhere I went as others might carry life-saving medical perscriptions.
Rating:
Summary: Very Good and Very Entertaining
Review: If Americans had read this book prior to voting for the 2000 election Florida would not have mattered. It is pitiful that Bush represents this country. He has issues and this book illustrates his unfortunate problem with the written word. I have sympathy for him but I am anger at his "handlers" for hiding this to the voting Americans. We have gone full circle. From a Rhodes Scholar to a stumbling, bumbling, idiot. May we have a short 4 years until we elect a competent President to represent our country.
Rating: 
Summary: Only Bush-Haters should bother
Review: This shrill screed will only appeal to the virulent Left-Wing haters who have come to the fore since the Clinton Impeachment. Another part of their attempts at revenge on the GOP for daring to hold Clinton accountable for his actions, Mr. Miller's book is another weak attempt to argue Bush is shallow and without the capacity for the Presidency. While his Yale BA and Harvard MBA belie the attempts of such professional navel-gazers to denigrate his abilities and education, their vocal, yet myopic world-view plays into his hands. Perhaps they should re-read Hamlet's mad scene.
Rating:
Summary: Chilling and hilarious
Review: A chillingly adroit look a man who's too ignorant--but obviously not too stupid--to be president, "The Bush Dyslexicon" dissects the Bush campaign (and the Florida putsch), TV, the myth of the "liberal media," and countless other pressing subjects. You'll laugh at the Bush quotes, but feel a creeping dread over the fact that this privileged ignoramus has his finger on the button.
Rating: 
Summary: It'll make you laugh, it'll make you mad
Review: In this book Miller tries to give some context to and make some sense of George W. Bush's numerous gaffes and malapropisms. Miller argues that the elevation of such an ignorant individual to the highest office of the land is the end result of a nation afflicted with a "dyslexia" or "amnesia" thanks to television. We shouldn't believe our eyes or our ears as to how unfit Bush is because the media (with big help from Bush advisors like Karl Rove) have told us otherwise. The media also spun Bush's opponent Al Gore as being something Gore really wasn't while Bush's policies, background, and shady business deals were swept under the rug. The media spun the election contest in favor of Bush while misrepresenting the Gore team's motives. The media spin of Bush continues to this day. The selection of George W. Bush as president was a triumph of propaganda over reality, to sum up Miller's view. This book is the most complete source of Bush's misstatements, lies, malapropisms, and gaffes available. Miller provides numerous quotes from a wide variety of sources, especially key points of the presidential debates (which the hopelessly overmatched Bush supposedly won or drew even, according to media spin) and of the Sunday morning public affairs programs. Another strength of this book is the part where Miller compares George W. Bush with other presidents in history who were not considered very intellectual, either. Bush doesn't measure up to the likes of Zachary Taylor, Warren Harding, or Millard Fillmore. Bush, according to Miller, doesn't even measure up to his own father (also quoted extensively) or to former VP Dan Quayle. When one finishes reading this book, it makes him or her wonder how in the world anybody could have voted for such an empty suit. Miller tries to argue that there's a conscious or unconscious method to Bush's "madness," but this reviewer questions whether Bush is really that clever. The main drawback to this book is that it was hastily written. Miller put aside the book he was writing to write this book instead. Another, but perhaps minor, drawback is that Miller claims not to be partisan, boasting he voted for Nader who in this reviewer's view was part of the problem. Bush would not have been as close to winning the presidency had Nader bowed out. The book would not have been written in the first place, but Miller fails to make the connection. All in all, though, this book is a documented answer to those who are dazzled by Bush's Ivy League background and blueblood pedigree and deny the obvious intellectual shortcomings of our current resident in the White House.
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Summary: EXPERTS AGREE...EVERTHING IS OK!
Review: G.I. Gurdjieff said that we spend our lives in a state of sleep. It took G.W. Bush to prove it. A powerful political machine, fraud in Florida, and almost $200 million in campaign spending notwithstanding, the apathy and ignorance of the voting public was the president-select's greatest asset. Mark Crispin Miller should know. A brilliant critic of television and advertising, he demonstrates how the corporate media led the way in giving the United States a leader who couldn't run a faucet had he been born penniless. I can't stress enough how important this book is. The Bushisms are pretty scary after you've finished laughing. But Miller's concluding commentary is the real meat. Democracy in America is just a dream. Gurdjieff says wake up!
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Summary: TV is not benevolent and Bush is not simple.
Review: A tonic to the deadspace that is TV news, this book reminds us that the truest meanings are the ones we discover by thinking critically about what has been said ( and importantly, NOT said)and not getting lost in the voice that is speaking. Bush's cadences hide the utter lack of content, and his speeches hypnotize with their circularity. Reading his words, naked on the page, makes clear how truly insincere, and accidentally revealing, his rhetoric is. Miller does a fine job of highlighting this, and how much truth there is in what Bush can/does not say. But Miller is especially great at reminding us that the media glosses over what is truly news so completely that anything meaningful is winnowed out of the television "news." I now watch the "news" with even more critical awareness, incredulity, and disgust...these programs truly are nothing more than advertisements for talking heads and their pet causes. Cokie Roberts, for example, has used her springboard to catapolt into the income stratosphere with paid speaking engagements and book deals. All of which seems to give her license to use her program as a personal soapbox, all notion of impartiality sold to the hightest bidder or HER OWN beliefs (note her biased interview with the Palestinian minister Sunday, August 19 as a prime example of a reporter venting personal anatagonisms toward a guest, all in the guise of reportage). And she isn't even the worst, or alone, as Miller's lucid and well-reasoned arguments make dreadfully clear. What a miserable state this fourth estate is in...and the presidency? Miserable doesn't adequately describe what Miller holds up to the light of reason.
Rating:
Summary: Perhaps a few more people should have taken the time to vote
Review: This isn't necessarily a review of the book which I'm sure the writer is quite competent in his opinions. I think the most important factor in this election isn't the Florida count, recount, re-recount, and let's count it again until anyone other than George W. Bush is president (hey I voted for Nader - of course now you're cursing that I caused Bush to win the election. Well think again - I voted for Elder Bush in 88, 92, and then Dole in 96 - I'm independent for your info). The major factor that has been overlooked is: Hey Democrats! Perhaps if a few more thousand of you, heck 10's of thousands of you got off of your butts and voted instead of thinking that you had more important things to do that day, then none of us would be having this conversation! I am so sick of hearing about voter disenfranchisement in Florida. Okay so a few hundred, maybe a thousand black voters didn't get to vote. That is a horrible crime that should be investigated - everyone who has the right to vote should be allowed to vote - no if's, and's, or but's. In the end that still shouldn't have mattered. If every single person that had the right to vote actually voted (not just half the eligible voters that actually voted) than this election would most certainly would have been different. In fact if every election had a 80-90% turn-out politics in america would be completely different. The politicians would actually have to hold themselves accountable to the electorate instead of counting on voter apathy to get them elected. By the way: if you can't figure out how to punch a voter card, perhaps you shouldn't be voting in the first place. If you have a question about the voting form ask the people who are there to help. I've had a question or two when I was voting before and the people were more than willing to answer the questions I had.
Rating:
Summary: The Bush Deslexicon
Review: This book documents everything I have been saying about Bush the Younger. The lack of media criticism and hesitation to delve into Bush's "true character" has made me feel like I was shouting into the wind. Thank you Professor Miller for a much needed look into the frightening mind of the man running our country. I recommend this book to everyone.
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