Why Bush is STILL Standing

[disneyboy]

Appealing To Our Lizard Brains: Why Bush Is Still Standing

By Arianna Huffington

October 13, 2004


Since the president's meltdown in the first debate — followed in quick succession by Paul Bremer's confession, the CIA's
no-al-Qaida/Saddam link report, the Duelfer no-WMD-since-'91 report, and the woeful September job numbers — I have been racking my brain trying to figure out why George W. Bush is still standing.

The answer arrived via my friend Ed Solomon, the brilliant writer and filmmaker, who explained that the conundrum could be solved by looking at the very organ I'd been racking.

Ed introduced me to the work of Dr. Daniel Siegel, a Harvard-trained psychiatrist and author of the forthcoming book "Mindsight," which explores the physiological workings of the brain. Turns out, when it comes to Campaign 2004, it's the neuroscience, stupid!

Or, as Dr. Siegel told me: "Voters are shrouded in a 'fog of fear' that is impacting the way our brains respond to the two
candidates."

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[On the Road]

1. How Did Arianna Know About My Lizard Brain?

I don't talk to anyone about that.

[RaleighNCDUer]

2. All we have to fear

is Cheney himself.

[Moderator]

3. Hi Disneyboy

Please be advised per Democratic Underground Copyright requirements, you must limit your pasting of an article to 4 paragraphs, and include a link to to the original.

Thanks and welcome to DU!

[indigobusiness]

4. I wouldn't mind getting lizardly

with Arianna...