Bush, "Puffy-eyed, cranky, fidgety, rocking back and forth in his chair"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9470154/site/newsweek/

Oct. 3, 2005 issue - This time, President Bush was not going to be caught out of position. He had flown to Colorado to the headquarters of Northern Command, the military nerve center for protecting the continental United States. "Northcom" is just across an air base from Cheyenne Mountain, where cold warriors had once watched for Soviet nuclear-missile attacks. A few hours after Hurricane Rita came ashore on the Texas-Louisiana border at dawn on Saturday, Bush sat in the Northcom Situation Room, looking at large flat screens filled with satellite images of the storm, graphics of troop deployments, and the faces of his commanders, including Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

The president was hearing mostly good news. The storm, though strong, was not a Category 4 or 5 monster. The vast network of refineries and oil platforms seemed to mostly withstand the 120-mile-an-hour winds and 15-foot storm surge. It would take weeks to get the gulf oil industry fully back online, and fuel prices were sure to go up. But the storm did not appear to have wrecked the economy or claimed hundreds of lives.

The president didn't look all that relieved or happy, however. His eyes were puffy from lack of sleep (he had been awakened all through the night with bulletins), and he seemed cranky and fidgety. A group of reporters and photographers had been summoned by White House handlers to capture a photo op of the commander in chief at his post. Bush stared at them balefully. He rocked back and forth in his chair, furiously at times, asked no questions and took no notes. It almost seemed as though he resented having to strike a pose for the press.

[evlbstrd]

1. He resented being held accountable.

The little rat bastard has gotten his way all of life.

[Fridays Child]

54. Yep. Five years in, and he finally has to play president. Poor thing.

Barbar and Poppy didn't tell Junior that he might actually have to preside.

[bos1]

58. Katrina vs 9/11 -- not to get too conspiratorial but

it is interesting to me that Katrina should show the WH to be totally unprepared and incompetent in general but somehow back in the days after 9/11 they were ready to spring into action with the PATRIOT ACT and creating the Homeland Security Dept and such within days...

[AuntiBush]

85. Bad Karma, maybe?

I see the mysterious similarities, as well. Good call, bos1.

[Nothing Without Hope]

95. Why yes, almost as though they might have been...expecting it?

How long is it going to take for the truth about 9/11 to get out at last?
:grr:

[bos1]

98. thanks for catching my meaning

the truth is already out -- it just will remain in the grey zone forever. While many mainstream Americans will admit in private moments that they think something was not as it seemed on 9/11, any public speculation will be always be slammed, ridiculed, dismissed.

[Nothing Without Hope]

99. I actually think the truth WILL come out - the 9/11 Commission Report is

so full of blatant lies and suppression, and there are so many impossible "coincidences" and "miracles, it wouldn't even take a whistleblower.

In the small chance you haven't already seen/heard it, don't miss Griffin's historic Madison lecture on the lies of the 9/11 Commission report - I found it gripping and convincing, and I think others would begin asking questions too if they had not heard these things before. It's available in video and audio online, and you can also buy VHS or DVD from CSpan.

Here's a thread from May (and the Griffin lecture WAS re-aired):
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=125x39690

[madrchsod]

2. balefully

http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=balefully
Merriam-Webster Online

[stevedeshazer]

8. That's a great word.

I really like that.

[AspenRose]

72. If Bush saw that word he'd think it had something to do with

hay or clearing brush in Crawford.

[wakemewhenitsover]

76. "BALEFUL" because he wasn't "ALE-FULL"??

[yorkiemommie1]

3. too much 'hard work'

he's a resentful, spiteful kind of guy and now it's more evident than ever. when is his base ever going to realize that he's not the 'good ole boy' they hope he is???

[Gregorian]

47. Hehe, this hurricane huntin' is good fun. Where's Rummy?

I've got to run to the little boy's room.


Crap, I ought to leave this stuff to the Daily Show writers.

[tinrobot]

4. He doesn't want to be president anymore...

...the job is too much "hard work."

[wtmusic]

6. OK indulge him...give him a shot at "convict" for awhile

Time to expand his horizons

[Old Mouse]

56. LOL! n/t

[cassiepriam]

32. Yes, he is not having fun anymore....

he looks quite put out by the demands of office.

[sarcasmo]

69. Life is no longer a vacation. Stress has cause him to relapse.

[bluedawg12]

5. He seemed over whelmed and resentful that he,,er HE

would have to deal with the minutiae of governing.
He is no policy wonk as we know.

[kentuck]

7. Something is eating at him......he is worried....

wonder what it could be...Hmmm-mmm....?

[glitch]

43. He's messing up bigtime, his masters are ruthless, he should be worried.

I am certain he's not worried about his victims.

[gratuitous]

9. How odd . . .

The press isn't kissing his ass and telling him how great he is, he actually has to adjust his famous schedule to do his fucking job, and suddenly he's not Mr. Sweetness and Light. How's it going, Landslide?

[donco6]

10. Brutal

Thankfully, they just cut him no slack at all! Great article.

[grasswire]

11. this part is bogus

"As a conservative, Bush would rather let the private sector carry as much of the burden as possible. Last week he was drawing on his own experience as a former oilman to delve into the technical details of the threatened refineries and pipelines. "

1. As a conservative, Bush would rather let the private sector PROFITEER, gorging on taxpayer funds.

2. His experience as a former oilman??!! ArBUSTO? <guffaw>

Bogus swill!

[Enraged_Ape]

12. What a pleasant euphemism for...

drunk off his fucking ass.

[rodeodance]

13. "But we couldn't find the guy with the keys,"

.....No matter how much and how carefully governments plan, someone always fails to get the message. Thursday night, Harris County (Houston) officials were scrambling to tap stockpiles of gasoline for motorists and municipal vehicles. They managed to get a Shell Oil official to go to a refinery—but couldn't gain entry. "We had the truck. We were at the refinery. But we couldn't find the guy with the keys," lamented Judge Robert Eckels, the main county official who briefed reporters. .......

[merci_me]

14. "asked no questions and took no notes"

This is the most scary part of all!!

While I sat in a hotel room in Houston, with a little 9 year old boy asking very perceptive questions and I was furiously scribbling notes of things to do, what to take next time, cranky Dubya, the person who is suppose to ultimately be in charge of the whole enchilada, is sitting in his bunker, evidently disengaged.

[rodeodance]

15. "handlers last week went to great lengths to erase the image..of fiddling"

......Having raised expectations so high, it was probably inevitable that Bush would disappoint. Especially during the run-up to the Iraq war and the 2004 campaign, Bush was not above stirring up a little fear. Now he is trying, a little too hard, perhaps, to reassure the public that his government really is able to cope with chaos. Four years after 9/11, many Americans are still anxiously waiting for the next attack. Hurricane Katrina served as a frightening sneak preview, testing the government's reaction to catastrophe. Bush and his handlers last week went to great lengths to erase the image, left over from Katrina, of the president's fiddling (actually, pretending to play a guitar after a rally in San Diego) while New Orleans sank.

The president made no effort to play down hurricanes as natural calamities that are unavoidable and hence uncontrollable. Instead, he reinforced the link between hurricanes and terrorism, suggesting that Osama bin Laden must have been pleased with the havoc wreaked by Katrina. When Rita threatened, Bush took personal control of the disaster preparations. He was so deep in the details that he supervised, via videoconference from his Northcom command post, the evacuation of a single hospital in Beaumont, Texas, to make sure the Feds and the state were taking the right steps and talking to each other. When his briefers reported that local governments were being faxed legal waivers to expedite the cleanup, the president helpfully pointed out that many local officials still don't have working fax machines. (Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff assured him that his people were making follow-up phone calls.)

It is probably not realistic to expect government to rise above human frailty in a crisis. The press holds Bush to a shifting standard: he was badgered by reporters for not going right to the scene of the disaster after Katrina, then criticized for "getting in the way" when he wanted to go to Texas before Rita. Bush canceled the pre-Rita trip, and he was probably right about not wanting to rush to the scene afterward. On Saturday afternoon, as reporters and advance men in Bush's entourage squeezed into the Texas emergency-ops center, a worker handling requests for generators cried out, "Whose idea was this? I can't do my work! I am about to really lose it!" Last week long lines of passengers trying to flee Houston snaked out of George H.W. Bush airport because about half the federal security screeners had failed to show up for work. Presumably, they were on the road like everyone else...........

[tinfoilinfor2005]

57. I know.

Trust me, Merci, I would so much rather see your perceptive nine year old boy running this country than the mindless moron who presently holds the job.

[Stinky The Clown]

16. That such an article was even published speaks volumes

More than the facts presented, the media are showing some honesty.

I am nowehre near ready to say they're actually doing their jobs - there are MANY stories beyond hurricanes that need coverage - but this is a start.

psssssst: MSNBC/Newzweek ..... here's a tip ... hot story ...... fucking with our votes. Yup, its been happening. Maybe you could cover that, too. When ya get a minute. K?

[marew]

17. Bush self-destructing?

As depressed as I was the day after the election, there were those who said the village idiot could never hold it together for another four years. Is he going down in flames, friends? Over three years to go and everything is a big fat mess. He WILL go down as the dumbest, most incompetent, corrupt president in American history. No doubt. It is just so very sad so many good people have to die for his grossly overblown ego.

[wisteria]

20. It's also sad that a good man (Kerry}"lost" this election to Bush

because he presented himself as the security president and people bought into it even though Kerry tried to warn people about Bush.

[Stevepol]

66. Kerry didn't lose; he won by about 3% or 5M votes. n/t

[MADem]

39. Kidney stones and knee aneurysms have disrupted the flow of

blood to his brains, ya see...

[CrispyQ]

41. lol

That was a good one!!!


:rofl:

[global1]

18. What's A Matter Georgie - Is Your Conscience Bothering You?....n/t

[loudsue]

21. Nope...not his "conscience"....he doesn't have one of those.

He only has an EGO, about the size of Texas. And his problem is that his poll numbers are down, and the money people are mad about that. So...they're making him into someone who cares.

It's not working.

:kick:

[calimary]

78. I have read much testimony here today that what he actually has... is

a hangover. People posting here who have experience living with alcholics say they recognize this same look. Wouldn't surprise me, in light of what the National Enquirer (online, at least) brought up a few days back.

So, sitting there visibly rudderless, passive as can be, not asking any questions, not taking any notes, looking "balefully" at the photographers surrounding him to get a shot (when he probably is wishing he had one ready to drink, then and there), sitting there all "cranky and fidgety" doesn't sound to me like he's this suddenly reborn, fully-engaged, and emotionally overwrought over the plight of the hurricane victims, as has been spun, even in that Enquirer story. HAH. What he's thinking when he's sitting there, according to the baggy-eyed, pinch-mouthed picture of him that I've seen around the net, is most likely "WAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH, I'm BORED. Can I leave now? I think I need a bathroom break. Do I HAVE to stay for this? Can't I go home? Are we done yet? Condi? Turdblossom? Can you get me outta here? man... i needadrink..."

[Crunchy Frog]

19. An autistic six year old,

as I said in a previous post on the same subject.

[mandyky]

28. I have an autistic 8 year old

and he handles most things better than Bush. He definitely reads and speaks better that the idiot son bush.

[Crunchy Frog]

30. I apologize for making the comparison.

It was inappropriate. I'll just change that to immature and petulant six year old.:)

[mandyky]

33. No problem

I am just saying! LOL

[otohara]

22. Quick Come Take A Photo of Bush Looking Tired - Hard Work

what a bunch of horseshit.

[nebula]

23. Poor Georgie looks like he could use

a five week vacation.


oh, wait...

[xchrom]

24. funny, i think he looks like that all the time.

[susu369]

25. bu$h* is cranky because he wants a drink

[spinbaby]

35. That's it in a nutshell

He looks awful because they made him stop drinking.

[ladylibertee]

26. What's Eating Gilbert George ? LOL

[bklyncowgirl]

27. Poor baby. Photo ops are just hard work.

The veil is being lifted and we are now seeing the real man as he is.

Has corporate America decided that Dear Leader has become a liability?

[opihimoimoi]

29. All a phuckin waste of time/energy...that man don brief/learn/

He don even take Warnings....

He just sits there...blinking....and sometimes, ask a simple no brainer question...

He is an act....a poor act at that.....get the HOOK.....

[cassiepriam]

31. What is happening in terms of his mental status?

Continues to deteriorate. No longer even making
an effort to look charming and affable? Wonder what is up?

[smoogatz]

37. It's an interesting (and frightening) question

I think Bush is almost uniquely mentally unprepared to be in his current position: a pResident who is unpopular with both the people AND the press. Add in his potential legal troubles (Plamegate), the burden of responsibility for the disastrous serious of fuckups over which he's presided (to the extent that he's capable of feeling such a thing), and the fact that he's apparently back on the sauce, and you have a rapidly aging and deteriorating W.

[cassiepriam]

51. It is the most important question of the day.

This is a man who was mentally ill when elected,
but well defended psychologically speaking. His limited
inner resources were well protected. Now the defenses and
protection are being stripped away. He is quite vulnerable to rapid
and serious decompensation, especially if he is boozing again. Also of great concern is that his minders seem to be distracted, preoccupied, and ill. Rove, Cheney, Rummy, et al. Psychs have been sounding the alarm bell for some time now.

[Nothing Without Hope]

89. Watch this VIDEO comparing Bush's speaking 10 years ago and today

10 years ago he was smooth and confident, even speaking WITHOUT NOTES. These days he can hardly form a coherent sentence. Some mental health professionals who have looked at the comparison of then vs now suggest Bush may have presenile dementia, which is progressive and incurable.

See for yourself:
http://www.adbuzz.com/bushbuzz.htm

[cassiepriam]

90. yes it is clear that there is significant deterioration

Just not clear what we are looking at specifically.
Dementia can be caused by a number of factors. I think
in *'s case, there is a lot going on in terms of pathology.

[Nothing Without Hope]

91. "A lot going on in terms of pathology" - yes, I agree. We can't be more

specific than that without an actual diagnostic study - which would never be made public as long as they need their puppet - but that there is some kind of profoundly debilitating and apparently progressive pathology is clear.

That it is affecting his mental and speech functions is clear. Is it also making him paranoid, super-irritable, bringing other ugly and potentially dangerous (for the country) personality changes? That happens with many dementias - we can only guess and worry without a real diagnosis.

[cassiepriam]

92. Pre existing conditions as well.

Personality disorder(s). Chemical abuse/addiction.
Possible Pi Polar as well?

If you look at how he holds his neck and arms it looks like
some sort of lack of blood flow to the brain?

I think it is hard to sort out what is what, he has such
a complex psych picture.

Yes I think it does not bode well. His history is that he
is mean, petty, revengeful, impulsive, over reactive.
As his environment gets more hostile I think he will get uglier than usual.

[redwitch]

34. Geez, hope no one shows him the protest pics from Saturday

THAT would make him fidget!

[npincus]

36. being Prezdent is HARD WORK

[nickinSTL]

38. "He rocked back and forth in his chair, furiously at times"

:wow:

The image I got when I read that!

Definitely sounds like a man with a problem...

[Arkansas Granny]

52. Maybe he needed a bathroom break and Condi wasn't there to

authorize him to leave his seat.

[TrogL]

75. Yeah, he needs his next fix

Something is making his ADHD act up. Probably needs his next cocaine hit and he's too far away from his regular supply.

[spuddonna]

87. That's a physical response to a emotional or physical problem...

Either he's going to blow chunks, and he's stifling the urge; has to pee, and Condi isn't there; or the speed he took to take the edge off the boozing the night before kicked in with a vengence...

He's such a sack of wasted cells... How can he still be the leader of the free world? Someone remind me... I cannot fathom it... :mad:

[Nothing Without Hope]

94. yes, it sounds PATHOLOGICAL. This man is not mentally fit by any stretch

Yet it's yet another form of the Emperor's New Clothes. NOBODY in the Big Media seems to be writing or talking about it, and it is very, very dangerous!!!!

[indepat]

40. Astounding that a man of such renowned physical fitness gets puffy-eyed,

cranky, and fidgety so easily: what's missing here?

[tinrobot]

42. A few shots of whiskey

...that he really shouldn't be consuming.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

44. Photo of chair-rockin' Bush, San Antonio, 9/25/05:

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/050925/480/txsw10309251411

President Bush participates in a briefing on Hurricane Rita at Randolph Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas., Sunday, Sept. 25, 2005. Seated at the table are members of the Joint Task Force for Hurricane Rita, Cmd. Sgt. Maj. George Nieves, left, and Commander Robert Clar, right. Military officials told President Bush on Sunday that the U.S. needs a national plan to coordinate search and rescue efforts following natural disasters or terrorist attacks. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

[watercolors]

65. Maybe hemroids

he's got a pain in his ass.

[sendero]

79. It looks like he's leaning..

... to let some gas escape :)

[bobbieinok]

71. isn't FEMA a national plan?? it was with Clinton

'Military officials told President Bush on Sunday that the U.S. needs a national plan to coordinate search and rescue efforts following natural disasters or terrorist attacks.'

[Nothing Without Hope]

93. OF COURSE THERE IS A NATIONAL PLAN!!! It is a DHS document and

it very clearly gives full authority to Bush and to Chertoff to do whatever is needed in an emergency. Authority that they did NOT invoke for DAYS as people died. Chertoff didn't even designate the Katrina a "national incident" for DAYS. The responsibility is clear.

And the national response plan exists already. It's called, cryptically :sarcasm: "The National Response Plan."

Here is the NRP itself:
http://www.dhs.gov/interweb/assetlibrary/NRP_FullText.pdf

Here is a thread on the NRP:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4668155
Thread title: The Buck Stops Here: NATIONAL RESPONSE PLAN

Here is how Chertoff delayed declaring a "national incident" after Katrina - and thus starting the federal response - for DAYS:
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001136746

And here is the actual memo that PROVES Chertoff delayed in this way, a true smoking gun:
http://www.realcities.com/multimedia/nationalchannel/news/KRT_Packages/archive/katrina/memo_to_cabinet_members.pdf

Finally, here is a post with links to the August 27 letter and August 28 clarification from Blanco to Bush/DHS asking for declaration of state of emergency and the Aug 27 response from Bush:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=2064469&mesg_id=2067532

The truth is very easy to find, but they keep on lying. Amazing, to pretend that there is no National Response Plan and that the delays and blocks of aid were the fault of the state and local officials.

This is a power grab for martial law, that's very clear. I urge you to read ALL of this thread, including the replies, to see just how very, very clear this truly is:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4790112
thread title: Missing A KEY POINT in *'s speech: POWER GRAB FOR POTUS AND MILITARY

[tqwhite]

45. He shouldn't look happy

If people are awake, they will realize the real meaning of Rita.

"Their performance this week shows clearly that they could have done the job three weeks ago. They just didn't.

"It doesn't show that we are safer, that the government is not actually the bungle mess we thought. It shows that it is able to do its job if Bush decides that it's important to him that you be taken care of. Once they get their poll numbers back in safe territory, they can go back to being choosy. 'Who knew an earthquake would be so devastating. We thought the state and local groups had evacuation plans. This was an ultra-earthquake!'

"Far from vindicating Bush or showing the feds on the mend. Rita just revealed that your safety is dependent on the whim and favor of George Bush. Move to Texas, Bucko."

The rest of the article is at http://justkidding.com/info.php?storyID=2104.

tqii

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

49. WELCOME to DU, tqwhite!

That kind of article is showing up in other places, too. The punch line of "What we learned about Hurricane Rita" is "We dropped the ball on Hurricane Katrina."

:patriot:

[calimary]

101. Yes indeedy - Welcome to DU!

All the Rita aftermath will do is remind people of what SHOULD have been done immediately after Katrina. And I wouldn't be a bit surprised if there were some, especially those who weathered the worst in New Orleans, who might be thinking "gee, he sure can get it up for Texas now, can't he?"

Not a bit surprised. If I'd gone through that, it's precisely what I'd be thinking... and then SCREAMING about.

Glad you're here. Please help us get RID of this bastard.

IMPEACHMENT!!!!!!!!

NOW!!!!!!!!!

[leftofthedial]

46. awakened all through the night with "bulletins"

a "Bulletin" is one shot of Jim Beam, one shot of Nyquil and a splash of coconut liqueur, served over shaved ice.

He resents anything that takes him away from golf, vacation and falling off his bike.

[Gregorian]

48. Cue George Thouroughgood-

One Bulletin; One Nyquil; One beer.

Haha. If you didn't laugh, you'd die. Please dear god, deliver this poor man to a better place.

[crispini]

50. Get out, that's in NEWSWEEK?

Thought it would be in some kinda lefty blog for sure.

My, my, the times they are a-changing.

[Vickers]

53. "he had been awakened all through the night with bulletins"

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

Widdle Georgie didden get aw his sweep!

[Ishoutandscream2]

82. Poor baby. Didn't get his 10 hours sleep and actually having to work

Spoiled little trust fund turd. How I hate the man.

[lyonn]

84. Remember, this regime belives in torture

He is misbehaving and must be punished. Makes you wonder what happened in those Rocky Mountains.

[bos1]

55. W looks totally hungover in the photo on DU homepage.

and who knows what kinds of drugs the WH docs are giving him. Remember his dad was on Halcyon

[womanofthehills]

60. He looks depressed, sick, bored, tired

Like he wants out of there. I have never seen him look so bad. Check all the wrinkles on his forhead like he is in a permanent squint. Actually is it very scary to look at him and think he is "running the country"
Lord only knows what drugs he is on. Remember the white foamy stuff in the corners of his mouth during the 3rd debate. I've seen that before on people taking certain drugs.

[calimary]

100. Welcome to DU!

He looks like he should be REPLACED.

This from the guy referred to as the most well-rested president ever, and the guy who spends an inordinate amount of time on his bikeriding and exercising. I think he's running the bar tab, not the country.

Glad you're here. More hands make lighter work - toward

IMPEACHMENT!!!! NOW!!!!!!!!!!

[Contrary1]

59. Smirk doesn't give a rat's behind about hurricane response...

he doesn't care about the issues that we do.

What he does care about is that all this is taking valuable time from his main agenda. Every day he has to pretend he cares about national security, is another day he and his cronies are not able to further rape American citizens with Social Security "reform", further tax breaks for those needy multi-millionaires, spreading "democracy" to oil-rich nations through violence, obliteration of the Constitution, etc...

That is the real reason he is drinking, not again, as I believe he never stopped, but drinking more. Bottoms up, Chimpie; pour yourself another. It's only a matter of time before even your staunchest supporters will begin to question their loyalty to you, even if not publicly.

:nuke: You're done. :nuke:

[rocktivity]

61. It's called "running scared"

Until now, he's been able to divert blame and depend on the complicity of the MSM. The problem is, there was no way to spin his response Katrina--not even Fox News could do it and maintain any sort of credibility. Rita is in HIS lap, he's clearly not calling the shots, and he's clearly terrified that people are going to notice.

:headbang:
rocknation

[elehhhhna]

62. The National Enquirer is reporting he's BOOZING AGAIN:

Laugh if you must but they're right about 99% of the time.

(Hey,I was bored playing evacuee in Waco, so don't flame my choice of reading material...)

[AntiCoup2K4]

63. Fidgeting..rocking back n forth..cranky..hmmmm....

Could the Chimp be coked up again?

[yorkiemommie1]

97. i only listen to AAR but

a young friend said she heard lots of 'he's on coke' talk on one of our major rock stations here in LA. Lots of calls about the jaw thing.

[autorank]

64. Wow, if he cracks, will he do something really bad :sarcasm:

Good grief, this is troubling.

[GayCanuck]

67. He reminds me of

Norman Bates!

[japple]

80. He reminds me of Captain Queeg

All he needs is the metal balls to click to calm his nerves. "Who took those strawberries..."

Actually, I think he is pissed because Rita didn't do more damage than Katrina and give him a chance to redeem himself with a more golden bullhorn moment. His little CENTCOM drama was all for naught.

I do think he is on the verge of becoming completely unglued and I hope, pray that when it happens, it will be live on TV in front of every Merkin woman, man and child.

[GayCanuck]

96. Yes, but at least

Queeg had steel balls; bush has none!

[lebkuchen]

68. Curious. Does Babs still breast feed Chimpy?

Maybe he missed his morning milking?

[donkeyotay]

70. It's gonna be hard work for all of us to survive his second term

Bush stared at them balefully. He rocked back and forth in his chair, furiously at times, asked no questions and took no notes. It almost seemed as though he resented having to strike a pose for the press.

[Javaman]

73. He needs a fix.

[Stephanie]

74. "Error: You've already recommended that thread."

dang!

[Kurovski]

77. "Cranky and fidgety." Get that man on the Beam! Jim, that is.

He's jonesin'.

Laura warned us about his crankiness and temper during the campaign. (I read it in the Chicago Sun-Times.) She would often have to scold him with a "Now, Bushie!"

It's one of the reasons I will always have some fondness for Laura Bush, no matter how often some may flame me for it. (Or even scold!) :-)

[formercia]

81. Declare God a terrorist

and attack God if you can find him, her or it. Kinda frustrating isn't it, especially since God talks to you every Morning and gives you your marching orders for the day. Don't know who to trust, do you?

[Cha]

83. So his pale, pasty,

ghostly, bloated eyes, tired smirk, look isn't from boozing..it's from "lack of sleep due to too many bulletins"..?:)

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

86. The Sword Of Plameocles Is Dangling Above His Head n/t

[Nothing Without Hope]

88. Let's hope they aren't swept away in the continuing flood of lies and

remember this scene for what it is - a shameless photo-op in which Bush knew nothing, did nothing, was totally superfluous and uncaring. He had been told to be there for appearances and he hated actually having to leave his comfy bed to do it. That's what flunkies are for.

Let them remember this:

He rocked back and forth in his chair, furiously at times, asked no questions and took no notes. It almost seemed as though he resented having to strike a pose for the press.

[Doctor_J]

102. Resented having to pose?

That's his only job.

[paineinthearse]

103. "...summoned by White House handlers..."

:spray: What's this, a spark of feistyness?