Why can't Bush ever talk or think straight?
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e) all of the  above. \nBONUS QUESTION: does he secretly get b*tch slapped at home?
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The same question is probably being asked by GW Bush himself. \n\nHis diary is organised for him and his speeches are written for him. He is cut out of the thinking part. \n\nAs a result he sometimes forgets how to organise himself. During his summer break, his aides left him alone in a closed room. Later when they came back, they found him distressed and dehydrated and having soiled himself. He did not know how to open the doors to get out.
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I have an idea. Why don't you think of a REAL question. This makes you look verry unintelligent. Like a board child who wants to participate in the grown-up's conversation, but dosn't have enough knowledge to do so. Think of all the reasons why you hate Bush, and instead of just calling him names, pick one of those reasons and ask a question about it.
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This is  really mean spirited. President Bush can't help being verbally challenged, you would not make fun of the  mentally challenged, would you?
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I don't think Bush has a clue what goes on in the world. He tries but his ideas and most others differ. The damage he has done to this country in terms of lives lost, economic costs and world reputation will take years to heal.\n\nBush isn't malicious - he really believes he is right and all others are wrong.
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Lol, that is too funny! I didn't even know Dr.Phil was called by Bush, but Bush does definitely need some mental help! With all these problems and money he's causing us I'm sure he needs therapy to get through it. Poor guy{sarcastically} I can't stand Bush, I can't even listen to his voice, I gotta change the channel! I can't wait until he's out of presidency!
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He is a twit!\nCheck out this website: http://www.realchange.org/bushjr.htm
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Funny that the land of free speech, wants to shut everybody up.If he didn't talk,how would we know what he's up to?Why do you think you have the right to lessen someones space to communicate.If you don't like what he's saying don't listen.\nIf he didn't speak up there would be someone else for the US to pick on.Bush had better stand down a llittle and start listening to the UN again or we'll all be in big shet.
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He can't help it. He has a 91 IQ like most of his followers!!\n\n"Well, I quit drinking in '86." \n—Bush, when asked whether, as he embarked on his second four-year term, he saw ghosts of past presidents. (C-SPAN interview, Jan. 30, 2005) \n\nBut the press has footage of him drunk on his as_!!!\n\n_________________________________________________\n\n"Gosh, I just don't think I ever said I'm not worried about Osama bin Laden. It's kind of one of those exaggerations."\n—Bush, during the final presidential debate, attempting to refute Kerry’s claim that the president boasted he was not concerned about Osama bin Laden. \n\n"So I don't know where he is. You know, I just don't spend that much time on him... We haven't heard much from him. And I wouldn't necessarily say he's at the center of any command structure. And, again, I don't know where he is. I- I'll repeat what I said. I truly am not that concerned about him."\n—Bush, answering a question about Osama bin Laden at a March 13, 2002 news conference.\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n"And as a result of the United States military, Taliban no longer is in existence."\n—Bush, demonstrating a weak grasp on reality at a campaign stop in Springfield, Ohio on Sept. 27, 2004. \n\n___________________________________________________\n\n"I don't speak ill of anybody in the process here. I think if you went back and looked at my comments, you will see I don't attack." \n—Bush, in the same interview. (The Washington Post reported on Feb. 20 that the Bush re-election campaign will spend "tens of millions of dollars" on a negative ad campaign focusing on the likely Democratic nominee, Sen. John Kerry.) \n__________________________________________________\n\n"We hold dear what our Declaration of Independence says, that all have got uninalienable rights, endowed by a Creator."\nSource: The New York Times, "Reporter's Notebook; Skipping Borders, Tripping Diction," David E. Sanger, May 28, 2002 \n\nAll except all the rights he's violated and is now trying to find a way around his latest loss at the Supreme Court!\n__________________________________________________\n\nLIE : "The evidence indicates that Iraq is reconstituting its nuclear weapons program ... Iraq has attempted to purchase high-strength aluminum tubes and other equipment needed for gas centrifuges, which are used to enrich uranium for nuclear weapons." -- President Bush, Oct. 7, 2002, in Cincinnati.\n\nFACT: This story, leaked to and breathlessly reported by Judith Miller in the New York Times, has turned out to be complete baloney. Department of Energy officials, who monitor nuclear plants, say the tubes could not be used for enriching uranium. One intelligence analyst, who was part of the tubes investigation, angrily told The New Republic: "You had senior American officials like Condoleezza Rice saying the only use of this aluminum really is uranium centrifuges. She said that on television. And that's just a lie."\n___________________________________________________\n\nLIE  "The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa." -- President Bush, Jan.28, 2003, in the State of the Union address.\n\nFACT: This whopper was based on a document that the White House already knew to be a forgery thanks to the CIA. Sold to Italian intelligence by some hustler, the document carried the signature of an official who had been out of office for 10 years and referenced a constitution that was no longer in effect. The ex-ambassador who the CIA sent to check out the story is pissed: "They knew the Niger story was a flat-out lie," he told the New Republic, anonymously. "They [the White House] were unpersuasive about aluminum tube
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No I think he's playing dumb so people will stop asking him important questions.\n\nThe thing about Bush is that he's not a politician or a leader.  He's a BUSINESS MAN.  He doesn't care about you and he's not religious.  He's looking out for HIS friends and HIS family, and the only thing he believes in is money and power.
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Bush may not even know. He just does what he is told. Remember, this is a President who did not even know there was internal strife in Iraq, or that the Sunni, S’hia, and Kurds even existed as independent entities, before he invaded. He did this even though his own father had written in his 1998 book ‘A World Transformed’ what a bad idea it was. He invaded even after Colin Powell warned him that “if you break it, then you own it”.\n\nSo, on the one hand, it is because he is uninformed and does not know anything about any of the major issues. Then, there are the problems associated with his learning disability that make him an ineffective speaker if he gets off-message. It was embarrassing when he bailed out of appearing before England’s parliament during one of his visits there because his handlers decided he was not up to the task – something that Tony Blair faces on a regular basis. \n\nNo one in the world takes Bush seriously, other than in matters of his reckless misuse of America’s military. Leaders from North Korea, Iran, and other countries routinely punk Bush to his face. They play him like a chump just because they can and they like to make him look weak and foolish on TV.\n\nWhen he and Hugo Chavez were both at the UN, the Secret Service had to peek around corners to make sure that Bush did not accidentally run into Chavez and have to speak to him. \n\nHow pathetic is it for the President of the United States to be sneaking through the halls like he is in High School and trying to avoid someone that he is afraid to face?
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Of course he isn’t!\n\nJust because you disagree with his policies does not mean that he’s “mentally unstable”. Frankly, the fact that you would suggest such a thing says a lot about the kind of person *you* are. “We have a difference of opinion, therefore I’m right, you’re wrong, and, oh by the way, you must be a right nutter for thinking differently to me!” Excuse me?\n\nThe following is an over-simplification, of course, but it illustrates my point of view. Iraq invaded Kuwait and an international coalition of forces kicked him out. Now instead of going all the way to Baghdad and removing Saddam, we left him in power and imposed sanctions so that he would never be able to build up his armed forces to a dangerous level again.\n\nThen, of course, we find that he exceeded the limits of those sanctions. So, what do we do? \n\nYou, I’m sure would simply have gone and had talks with Saddam and then return to us saying that you had guaranteed “Peace in our time”. Luckily, some of us have better memories than you (or are better educated) and we remember what happened the last time someone (Neville Chamberlain) said that. So, we decided not to follow the same course of action that last time lead to a world war that cost the lives of 50 million people, we decided that *this time* we’d learn from past mistakes and sort Saddam out *before* he became powerful enough to be a big problem.\n\nAgain, I’m quite sure that *you* would say “Oh, but it wouldn’t have happened *this* time!” Really? Well, personally, I’m not prepared to bet the lives of millions of people on the belief.\n\nRemember that Bush, and most sane people, want nothing more than the “Peace in our time” that you do. Unfortunately, there are evil people around who do not; the kind of people who fly aircraft into skyscrapers. Should we just sit around and do nothing about that?\n\nOh and Tom, can you explain exactly what your problem is with the video clip you posted a link to? It sounded like a perfectly good response to me. He said that it’s not an issue that had been raised before and therefore he would have to discuss it with his advisors before he could give a statement of national policy. That’s what happens in democracies. Or would you rather he behaved like a dictator? Would that make you happier?
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great question, and it can only be answered by Bush himself
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Oh no , not dumb, but foolish, ignorant, and incapable of making a speech without someone telling him what to say in his earpiece.  Verbaly he can not express himself w/o getting himself in trouble. I think he may may have  some mental problems and IQ problems, because I think some people are writing his speeches for him and always telling him what to think.\n\n  I think he is a crimminal and belongs behind bars . He has apointed more people with criminal past than any president.  Most all people in his government are duel citizens . I think he lso lies too much . Me thinks he may be criminally insane!\n\n BTW, the only reason he owned a baseball team is because of his daddies money, and his family is rich. Second , he was never elected president! It was the courts and Scalia's dicission that put him into the presidentary , not because he was elected. He was never elected, he stole the election through deciet and help from the GOP. Justice Scalia voted that Bush be President because of a numbers debate between Bush and Gorr, and then Kerry, not the people. \n\n He is nothing more than a pResident of the White house against the wishes of the people. His whole cabal is crimminal and if we don't watch very carefully this next election the GOp will steal it also as they did those for Bush.
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Who was that begging us to be nice to this guy? Wake up lady! This is the United States of America! If you are stupid, you get criticized. Politics is a tough business. He knew that going in. Bush aint a crackhead though. The other writer was correct. He is a dry drunk. I think he is a little coked out too which explains is absolute inability to speak coherently. The guy is President of the US and cant even speak well publicly. What is that? All he can do is read or spew the same ole rehearsed talking points. I think he needs another vacation.
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What other sort of crisis could he create? He's already got dissatisfied gas consumers; ongoing war action in foreign country; nuclear threat from overseas; civil unrest over immigration issues; and a host of other things that are keeping him up at night.\n\nWhile my opinion of his performance is WAY down in the cellar with most other people's (and has been for some time), I would point out that Bush's style of leadership is a FIREMAN -- he notices fires, he runs to fires, and he likes to put them out in the quickest, most expedient way possible even if his solution causes future problems for everyone.\n\nThis is why his shining moment occurred at 9/11 -- an unexpected crisis, and he leapt in to meet it with both feet, and his approval shot up to 90%. THat is seriously the ONLY issue in his presidency that has earned him more than a lukewarm or "ehhh" response.\n\nAfter that, when the immediate crisis failed and he had to develop long-term policy, he completely floundered. Thus he's pretty much coasted his entire term of office, waiting for things to happen so he can respond to them.\n\nIt's very apparent that, when he actually has to lead (instead of respond to a crisis), he doesn't know what to do, nor does he surround himself with enough people of varying opinions to find the best answer.\n\nI'm not sure Bush creates his own crises on purpose; but I could suspect that of the underlying "spin doctor" machine of which he is merely a figurehead. \n\n(The only reason he got the nomination in 2000 was because his political party scoured the nation to find someone who was palatable to everyone and who would presumably promote their issues -- they actually did hand-pick Bush and primped him for the election.)
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The main problem is that somebody with clearly very little intelligence can have so much power and can get away with blatantly abusing that power. He has so much blood on his hands I don't know how he can look himself or his fellow human beings in the eye. "Annoying/frustrating" barely scratches the surface of many, many peoples feelings about Bush and his government - despair and anger are nearer the mark.