Re: Class without a bell for dismissal

    '... that's Bush's problem, while Chirac's is simply a shortsighted
    sense of his own innate correctness ...'

    It's quite hard to disentangle the personalities of any public
    figure from the personae constructed by their salesmen -
    or their detractors. And I'm not sure if you're saying this,
    but Dubya isn't my idea of a textbook sociopath. His reported
    religiosity sounds quite sincere, whilst the successful abandonment
    of drink in his early forties is highly untypical. Narrow, stupid,
    submissive to stronger personalities, possibly. (Though I don't
    happen to agree with any of these.) But not the opportunistic,
    gratification-driven machine that we usually understand by the word
    'sociopath'.

    'Opportunism' has, on the other hand, become in the course
    of his career, Chirac's middle name. Trimming his political affiliations
    from decade to decade, purloining public funds for orgiastic holidays,
    there are still, so far as I know, certain legal matters to be dealt
    with, pending the completion of his presidency. And I haven't even
    mentioned the oleagenous patter sliding out of the fatherly smile on
    the front of that greasy head.

    If they were admitted to my clinic, I'd have little trouble deciding
    which wards to assign them.

    Scottie B.

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Received on Fri Jul 11 04:32:00 2003