It finally dawned on me...Bush's immaturity...he's a child.

[KansDem]

I don't see or hear Bush much...I generally rely on DUers' descriptions of his speeches and press conferences.

But I have to admit, this guy is terrible. He's acts like a small boy: very immature. I watched the exchange between him and David Gregory on Crooks & Liars and this is what I saw:

"...don't violate the law

Lemme finish...!

...don't violate the law

...don't violate the law

Article III, blab, blab, blab..."
(goes on blabbering for a couple of minutes without saying anything)

"...don't violate the law"

So he makes a big thing about letting him finish, essentially cutting off a reporter's follow-up, but then goes on repeating what he has already said?!?!?

He's eating up time. I've seen this strategy in a few other press conferences he's given. It's a child's way of avoiding accountability. My 8-year-old son does the same thing when he's scolded: "Why did you do this?" "I...um...um...I...well...um... "Why...?" "Lemmee finish... I...um...um...well..."

He's terrible... He never grew up.

[cspanlovr]

1. Yes, he's infantile. I WISH he were 7!

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. Too much booze brought back the terrible twos

[cspanlovr]

3. Thats wonderful...did you make that up?

[GreenPartyVoter]

10. Yah. just now. I was in a rhyming mood, I guess. *l*

[Warpy]

19. I went to AA meetings

after I'd left a drunk because I knew there were things to learn that Al Anon hadn't taught me.

One of the things I learned is that addiction stops emotional development cold at the age the addiction took over. Rehab and self help groups are what help the addict/alcoholic start to grow up once the addiction is recognized.

I gauge Stupid's age at about 15. We know he loves Jesus so much he's never had any treatment.

[smirkymonkey]

26. Also, he is constitutionally incapable of being honest with himself,

or any kind of introspection whatsoever. He projects all his darkness on the world "out there" and anyone who disagrees with his childish world view is perceived as the enemy.

Emotionally he seems to be around 3 years old tops. However I wish he was 18 so we could send him off to Iraq. Somebody needs to make a man out of him.

[ProgressiveEconomist]

41. Dubya sure displays rigidity, isolation, and denial--classic alcoholic/child

of-alcoholic personality traits.

Was GHWB and/or Barb a heavy drinker when Dubya lived with them?

[AndyA]

4. Agreed - Bush is a spoiled little baby, a brat, a bully.

And as long as he doesn't have to get his hands dirty by doing something disgusting like serve his country in Viet Nam or work to earn a living, he's willing to force others to do the things he won't do.

We have a real problem here in America. And his name is George W. Bush.

[KayLaw]

5. He's not the only one

During the 2004 debates, I was struck by Cheney's stunning immaturity, then, when I heard him speak, I felt the same about Bolton. Neocons, I guess.

[cspanlovr]

8. Narcissism, pure and simple.

[no_hypocrisy]

6. He never received the love and recognition from two warm

and supportive parents. That's it.

[mike_c]

20. you don't think life with Babs and Poppy was warm and loving...?

:rofl:

[orpupilofnature57]

7. Actually thats an insult to your 8 year old, Shrub says You um um, at

least your son claims some responsibility,by saying I.Shrub thinks it's a big game of " I'm rubber your glue " Which would bore most 8 yr olds.

[butterfly77]

9. and some more of his comments today...

"The point I just made is the most important point" " You can ask the question all you want"

So I guess he is telling us that he doesn't care what we say he is the decider and we have no choice but to follow his stupid ass. I have been watching this nut for years and have been wondering why some can't see and some continue not to see that he is incompetent.

[Wickerman]

11. that's what happens with young drunks

they stop maturing at the age they start abusing alcohol and drugs. That's why he always acts like a petulant 12 year old. No offense meant to 12 year olds.

[Generic Brad]

38. None taken

[liberal N proud]

12. Acts like a 4 year old whose mother didn't buy that candy bar at the store

His actions are very similar to a 4 year old who was told no by mother.
He has never been told no before.

[Hav]

13. .

Even worse, he is like a child that has never learned to accept a "no". Bad parents I suppose.

[valerief]

14. When I was two and had a tantrum, the doc told my mother to

toss a glass of cold water in my face. My mother said I never had another tantrum.

I think someone needs to turn the hose full blast on Dim Son.

[City Lights]

15. I liken him to a spoiled toddler.

His parents did a horrible job raising him. He needs a time out. A very long time out.

[CarlVK]

16. He's the poster child of social promotion

Brought up in poliical aristocracy, coddled like a spoiled arrogant little prick of a child, protected from his own foolishness time and time again clear into his adulthood, even having brushes with the law virtually made invisible to public view.

Of course he's a child. That's what he's always been.

[AlCzervik]

17. I blame his family, Battle Axe Barb fawned all over him and George Sr.

was an absentee father phoning it in.

[smirkymonkey]

27. Honestly, I think he was born rotten.

His parents just added fuel to the fire.

[Indy65]

35. Born rotten

I think he is the bad seed,remember the movie.

[Freedom_from_Chains]

18. Scary, isn't it?

[orpupilofnature57]

23. Yes what were the ? % , thinking?

[Freedom_from_Chains]

32. That's just it, they weren't, thinking that is. n/t

[Gregorian]

21. Read up on him. It's worse than you think.

He's the kid who blew up frogs. The sibling who shot his brothers with a bb rifle. The college student who trashed his apartment and ran off without paying the cleaning deposit. Those are just a few I recall off the top of my head.

[WinkyDink]

22. EXACTLY. Psychopaths cannot TOLERATE being thwarted.

Or even challenged. Bush HATES THESE REPORTERS.

Added: And the college bast**d who BRANDED others on the BUTTOCKS.

[ProgressiveEconomist]

29. WP says at AGE 16 Dubya shot his little brother with an air rifle

as well as killing thousands of frogs in the meadow behind the estate.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13603-2004Nov25.html

[annabanana]

24. the secret prisons violated the law. . . . "SO WHAT?"..

He actually said "So what?" to Matt Lauer. I could barely believe my ears.

[LostinVA]

25. He is -- literally -- a textbook sociopath

Seriously. Fits it to a T.

[kerry-is-my-prez]

28. it might be related to low iq - stupid people are very childlike too

n/t

[BREMPRO]

30. immature, belligerent, insane, and now a chauvinist!

when he was impatient with David Gregory for asking a tough hypothetical question about the Geneva conventions, he wanted to move on and blurted "next man!" 3 times- like the press corp was some old boys club or military barracks. He was also notably more dictatorial and angry today, like the chancellor in V for Vendetto
scary.

[spanone]

31. A child with his finger on 'the' button. Very scary.

[The Backlash Cometh]

33. He just has arrested development because he's never had to accept

the consequences for his actions. Someone was always there to bail him out when he got into trouble. And I bet it's going to happen again because the Democrats are too much of peace doves to go for the throat.

[femrap]

34. I think he's more dangerous than that....

he's a sociopath. No conscience. He blew up frogs as a boy...now he blows up people.

Plus he's a sadist...I think he actually enjoys inflicting pain on others...he gets his kicks from knowing he causes others to suffer.

I wish he had never been born.

[cyberpj]

36. Anyone here familiar with AA and "King Baby" personality? It's GWB. nt

[Mr_Spock]

37. Republicans are stuck in high-school mode - FOREVER!!

Ever notice how they like to make fun of people based on childish HS attitudes?

Republicans are high-school kids that never grew up and never became independant from peer pressure.

They are children their entire lives.

[Fire Walk With Me]

39. Are you saying that his parents weren't the finest one could find?

Please see the geneology photodocument here:

http://www.goharrison.com/stories_reports.htm

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

40. He reminds me of Joe Besser, of the Three Stooges

Besser replaced Shemp and was well-known for acting like a bratty, obnoxious child in the body of an adult. Anyone who might remember the Abbott & Costello TV show from the mid-1950s would remember Joe Besser in the role of "Stinky", the bratty, completely obnoxious child dressed in an oversized Little Lord Fauntleroy outfit, shorts, and a flat top hat with overhang, as well as an all-day sucker he used to hit people with.

[agincourt]

42. I think he's loaded up on "candy"

even if he don't drink anymore.

[DarkTirade]

43. That's what happens when you spoil someone too much.

They never really grow up.

[orleans]

44. wouldn't we like to know his IQ? i think that would speak volumes. n/t

[DesertRat]

45. I felt that way ever since he declared himself the "decider"

"I'm the decider and I'll decide what's best." Reminded me of a playground bully.