Bush* And His Idiotic Annoying Tics... DRIVES ME CRAZY!

[arwalden]

While the Japanese prime minister was speaking, Bush was gazing around the room, day-dreaming, not paying attention to what was being said. His odd facial expressions conveyed the impression that he was trying to keep himself from laughing at all the "funny-sounding" foreign words that the 'Japaner' was saying.

So as I was watching this odd and sophomoric and RUDE behavior coming from our Great Leader... I could feel my blood pressure start to rise. Veins started popping out on my forehead.

I despise him. I loathe him. There is NOTHING about him that is redeeming... and all his behavior oddities and strange personality traits just make him EVEN MORE loathsome and annoying.


His smirk.
His excessive blinking.
His beady eyes that are too close together.
His podium-leaning.
His shoulder-shrug of innocence.
His darting eyes.
His "monkey-face" whenever he over-pronounces a word that ends in "R".

>>> His "I gotta go PEE-PEE" dance!! <<< That constant shifting of weight from his left foot to his right foot... as though he's holding a full bladder.

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-- Allen

[kentuck]

1. He sometimes bites the inside of his cheek...

when he's not chewing on a leftover peanut.. :)

[arwalden]

6. Yep... I Forgot About That One... And The Lip Biting

... unfortunately that's a nervous habit of mine too (biting or "plucking" bits of skin from the inside of my lower lip). Ugh! When I realize I'm doing it, I stop myself.

In any case... it certainly contorts one's face and makes them look quite idiotic.

I imagine that Bush* really has to concentrate to keep himself from sticking out his tongue as a "helper" when he's trying to draw letters.

-- Allen

[sadiesworld]

35. Do you remember the incessant criticism of Clinton over the

lip biting?! And, of course, not a peep about *'s cheek chewing.

Not that I find either terribly important, but the difference in treatment from the librul media is laughable.

[yella_dawg]

2. Can we

sell him to the circus??

[BurtWorm]

3. His inappropriate laughter

about things that are deadly serious. I think he intends it to be read as superiority.

[stanwyck]

31. Truly disturbing

very Ann Coulter-like. You're giving him too much credit. I think this is a serious character flaw. He lacks empathy.

[Beetwasher]

4. His Over the Top Swagger When He Walks

His over-pronunciation of words, like he's drunk and trying desperately to prounounce it correctly.

[arwalden]

14. That Fucking Turkey-Strut Walk! Grrr! --- Watch how he swings his arms and

how he holds his hands. It's just TOO EXAGGERATED and forced-looking to be natural. It's simply GOT to be something that he's CONSCIOUSLY making an effort to do.

If he's under the impression that it makes him look more confident, he's sorely mistaken. It only makes him (and our country) look like pompous buffoons.

The idiot!

-- Allen

[ElsewheresDaughter]

5. his broomstick shoved up ass walk...that i'm sure he thinks is hemanish

[ElsewheresDaughter]

11. the way his shoulders go up & down when he chuckles like a frat boy

[Tim4319]

7. How about...

>>> The bobbing up and down of his head.
>>> His "word of the day" references when his is giving his speeches.
(Example: In one speech he said in one speech, "we are in a recession", (a short pause) "that means to go backward!"

[arwalden]

15. He Has A Hard Time Hiding His Personal GLEE And Sense Of Accomplishment...

whenever he correctly pronounces a multi-syllabic word.

Sometimes his eyes will dart "offstage" as though he's looking for the eagerly anticipated thumbs-up signal from his mom... or from Condi. ("How's that, Ma? How'd I do? Did ja hear me, I said it, I said it! Did-ja?")

[Catfight]

20. That's true Arwalden....very astute of you. He does act like a child

hiding his personal glee. I just can't believe he'll even be mentioned in history books someday. Ug. The president who should have never been.

[Nite Owl]

8. Uhh...

his most used word. It's physically difficult to try to listen to the guy. Repulsive. I know many others get this reaction too. There was this one lady on CNN a while ago that said she loved to hear him talk. What's with the divisive way he makes people feel? There must be some kind of explanation of it. Not even Raygun did this and he wasn't 'liked'.

[xxqqqzme]

9. his handlers have taught

him, when he delivers 'serious' speeches, to bite his tongue instead of smirking. First used when squatter addressed UN in September '02.

[Mandate My Ass]

10. The double handed chest thump

and pseudo-earnest breathlessness when he talks about America, as if it is embodied in him. :argh:

[stevedeshazer]

12. Can't really add to your list

But the beady-eyed thing is something my mom (she's 76) always comments on, as in "beady-eyed little shit", her name for him.

[Catfight]

18. I love it, beady-eyed little shit is perfect!

His inappropriate pauses, he's need to look at his paper all the time, obviously speaking from a speech instead of his heart. His deliberate back and forth eye movement like a mechanical puppet giving a speech. His leaning on the lectern and fidgeting all the time. He's veneer interest in what he's saying when he hasn't a clue, it's just recited words. He's ignorant Texas sounding draw. Everything pretty much about him, but mostly his eyes are too close together and he has no lips. He's just plain annoying.

[arwalden]

24. Sounding-out and "reading" words... but not understanding the SENTENCES

that the words form... that's PRECISELY it!!

Bill Clinton, Al Gore, John Kerry... could give a FULL speech using note cards, or with nothing more than a BULLETED LIST of "speech highlights" as a reminder of the topics and order.

Armed with JUST their understanding of the subject matter and brief reminders of what they planned to talk about... each of these professionals could easily give a speech without text or teleprompters.

But Bush* is totally impotent! If the wind blew away his speech... or if the teleprompters stopped working... he would have NOTHING to say.

-- Allen

P.S. Who was it that had the WRONG speech loaded into the teleprompter... yet he managed to recite the speech from memory until the correct speech was loaded... and the teleprompter operator could CATCH UP with the speaker?

I remember hearing this story several times... but I don't know who the speaker was... or if it's just an urban legend.

[carolinayellowdog]

37. 1994 SOTU, no urban legend

http://www.janda.org/politxts/State%20of%20Union%20Addresses/1993-2000%20Clinton/clinton.994.html

[arwalden]

45. Thank You... Indeed It Was Clinton Who Could Give A SOTU From Memory

and not miss a beat.

-- Allen

[Blue Gardener]

47. Pausing for instructions coming through his earpiece

I've seen that mentioned here before. It seemed obvious when he was talking to the Pope. He would say a few words, then pause like someone was telling him what to say through an earpiece, then speak, then pause....It happened again and again. Very odd.

[Canuckistanian]

13. What's with the podium leaning?

Is this some sort of territorial display? I'm the boss and you'd better listen up?
That's what I hate.

[DakotaDemocrat]

17. Speech class...

...One of the members of the local young democrat chapter he was doing a bunch of Bushisms in speech class earlier this year. He said he leaned up against the podium, made up words and laughed at his own dumb jokes.

The teacher gave him an F.

When he got the grade back, he told his teacher if its good for our President to do, why wasn't it good for him?

Two weeks later, they watched a live press conference with Bush for extemporaneous speaking. The teacher attributed all the Bushisms to nerves.

I would laugh if it wasn't so pathetic.

[RedEarth]

16. His "Alfred E. Newman" face

the way he says some wwwwoooorrrrrrdddddsss

[YEM82]

19. Turkey, an unstable state?

Did anyone else catch on in the Dateline interview when he implied that "freedom" in Iraq would result in a change for rogue nations such as Syria and Turkey? If I'm not mistaken, Turkey is a secular democracy, and a US ally. Wonder whats really on his mind?

[arwalden]

22. Hello, YEM82... Welcome To DU! -- What you say is true...

Bush* definitely has a very limited understanding of geopolitical reality and history and how it all works together and how so many things are intertwined on many different levels.

His worldview is all linear. Single level. Black and white. Good and evil.

== Allen

[hatrack]

36. So Turkey is now a rogue nation?

Could've fooled me!

[Ilsa]

39. Don't you remember? Last February they decided not to allow

US troops to go through their country to get to Iraq. That put them on Bush's list of terrorist states, I'm sure, right along with France.

I remember that as well. Glad you brought it up.

And welcome to DU! :toast:

[newyawker99]

40. Hi YEM82!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Vickers]

21. How can you forget his totally inappropriate winking?!?!?!?!

Jeebus, I can hardly wait with the eulogy...he'll be winking at every oilman in the goddam crowd!

:spank:

[soleft]

23. Listen to these clips of Charles Manson

Manson talks a lot faster than Shrub, but they sound a lot alike.

http://www.mansonmythos.com/links/CM_frame.html

[kentuck]

28. He may talk like Manson but he looks like Ted Bundy....

Especially in his younger pictures..

[mopaul]

25. he looks like he has a corncob up his ass

like he's very uncomfortable in his own skin and is ready to run out screaming. he was very red faced today, as if he were on meth.

very very odd and off putting. our worst ambassador is our president

[arwalden]

26. Was He Drunk? He looked drunk. Is his drunkedness a state-secret?

[liveoaktx]

27. His nyuk-nyuk-nyuk body lurching when he thinks he's told a joke

[mwar]

29. Ssssss

At the end of every plural:

Terrasitssss
Freedomsssss
Insurgentsssss

A pit viper with an alcohol damaged reptilian brain.

[arwalden]

30. "Shh" instead of "s" (In-shurgents... Shocial Shecurity)

[mwar]

32. yeah!

Inshurgentssss

[Catfight]

33. Yeah..like the S'sssss that people with dentures pronounce!LOL

[Jane Austin]

41. He only does that sometimes . . .

when he wants to sound extra sincere.

[mwar]

34. The tinny voice

makes me think there's something wrong with the audio, before I angrily turn it off.

[The empressof all]

42. The voice is the worst

Every time I hear him speak I get a sharp toothache like pain right through my brain. I call it my little personal immunity to mind control.

[Cronus Protagonist]

38. A small point to note

A lectern is what he leans on, a podium is what he stands on. It's a common mistake, often made in professional media, but it's one that doesn't look good to those over the pond who know the difference.

Other than that small point, yes, his mannerisms are fucking annoying, but I forgive him for them because he can't be expected to change now that he's an alcoholic with several obvious neurological diseases.

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[arwalden]

44. Yes... You're Correct. Lecturn instead of Podium.

I knew that. Really. Honest! I did. :-)

-- Allen

[Oddman]

43. Don't forget

the constant crossing and uncrossing of his arms and legs and then he notices he is doing it and he tries to keep still and you can see that he is thinking about trying to keep still and not focusing on what is going on around him but is lost in his own thoughts about having to scratch his nose but he has to wait at least 30 seconds before he can move so he starts counting to himself, one one hundred, two one hundred, three one hundred . . . but he loses his place at 10 one hundred and scratches his nose anyway and uncrosses his legs at the same time. . . .

[SammyWinstonJack]

51. LMBO

Now, that was funny!

[arwalden]

46. And What's The Deal With The HUGE Shoulder-Pads In His Suits??

It doesn't make him look any more "presidential". It doesn't make him have more of a "presence". It makes his body look like a caricature of a comic book character (the evil villain, if you ask me).

It makes his head look freakishly small and out of place and I'm often reminded of that scene in Beetlejuice in the "afterlife waiting room" where we see the shrunken head on the regular-sized body dressed in safari clothes.

[Puglover]

48. I guys have covered it all I think but thanks..

I just walked into work (it's 0530 and I need coffee) feeling sorta discouraged and now I'm sitting here giggling like a loon....

[salin]

49. the odd pause... then purse lips and blow air into lips or cheeks

watch him. Where he used to pause and then smirk(really odd timed pauses in his speech, also very annoying), he now often does this odd expression where he firt purses the lips then exhales to either puff out his cheeks or his lips. I think it is a trained response by his handlers to take out the natural smirk - and replace it with something that looks somewhat "pensive". Sorry handlers... its almost as annoying as the original smirk!

And have you ever noticed that he typically says only about five words before his pauses... maybe sometimes stretching all the way up to seven (and probably not ever beyond nine). Can you imagine listening to that odd cadence... all of the time?

[arwalden]

50. I've Figure That One Out... It's How He "Reads".

His speeches usually appear on large type on a TelePrompTer ... or in large "orator" type on the printed page. As a result, there are only 5 or 6 words on each line.

Because Bush* doesn't read whole SENTENCES that have a beginning and a middle and an end. Because his simple mind cannot PROCESS whole sentences and COMPLETE THOUGHTS, he must break each sentence down into the smallest component: WORDS.

This is important: He reads individual WORDS, not whole sentences. He attempts to imitate sentences with the line-by-line word groupings... but the best he can do is put a pause at the end of each PRINTED LINE of text... as though it were a complete sentence.

We know for a FACT... an ABSOLUTE FACT that he doesn't comprehend what he reads, and that he's merely reading words because of how he pronounces (mispronounces) certain words.

Not long ago, the word "offense" tripped up our Great Leader. Depending on whether it's pronounced as "off-FENSE" or "OFF-ense" the meaning changes. One pronunciation describes the act of being affronting or displeasing... the other pronunciation describes the act of attacking or assaulting.

Sadly, when making a sports analogy our Great Leader thinks that the best DE-fense, is a good "off-FENSE"... or to be affronting and insulting and for us to outrage the moral sense of our enemies.

The fucking idiot!

-- Allen

[salin]

52. Interesting observation

in working with struggling adolescent readers, I came to learn that many just "saw words" - not ideas, not sentences. They would read without pause at the end of a sentence - and entire paragraph as a single entity - and garnered no sense of meaning of what they had just read, because they were so focused on strings of individual words. Never thought of this odd speech pattern as possibly a similar thing.

It would explain why, even after the country is in crisis, and he is trying to make a case for war, that he was too lazy to read for himself a brief (reportedly only 11 pages long) - which is the excuse for how the Niger claim made it into the SOTU. As the official story goes - Condi briefed him on the report - and even she claims not to have read it closely enough to find the CIA caveat about the intelligence not being reliable. Now we know that Condi reads - so the story is Bullshit. But the part about it being summarized for him is completely consistent with a spread done last winter (before, I believe, his long fall in popularity that began in January with the Kay declarations of no WMDs) highlighting the trusted relationship between georgejr and Condi. Accordingly she always turns the big briefs into bullet point soundbites. Suggesting that he never reads any reports. Lazy son of a "silver fox" (georgesr's term for hyena mother in chief).