Steadfast, disciplined, Bush sees himself as unchanged by presidency

[Cocoa]

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2004/08/25/politics1458EDT0639.DTL

Steadfast, disciplined, Bush sees himself as unchanged by events of presidency

George W. Bush loves to tell people about the time Japan's prime minister compared him to Gary Cooper, hero of the Western movie "High Noon."

America's 43rd president cultivates the tough-guy image, offering himself as a blunt-spoken man of action. "I'm a gut player," he says.


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"The man has a whole lot more wrinkles," says Johnson, now deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget. Adviser Karen Hughes says that in the lines on Bush's face are etched "some of the weight of the world."

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The president's idea of gardening might involve a chainsaw. But he also loves to work jigsaw puzzles, go for long walks and birdwatch -- not exactly typical Alpha male activities.

"He's the one, when we were at camp, who spotted the scarlet tanager," says the first lady. "He has great 20-20 eyesight."

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[wolfgirl]

1. n/t

:puke:

[MikeG]

2. As dumb as the day he was selected.

[havocmom]

5. Yeppers. Anybody 'unchanged' by that position ...

A) does not understand the situation

B) isn't doing it right

C) has the attention span of a gnat

D) is a totally self absorbed schmuck

E) has someone else doing the president stuff

F) all of the above

[gumby]

13. I vote F

Fat Festering Flatulent Fuckheadded FAILURE

[Vladimir]

3. Garbage in, garbage out... n/t

[madmax]

4. In other words he's the same asshole loser he was

before he stole the Presidency. Makes sense to me. :shrug:

[CarolynEC]

6. Wow. How vapid and shallow do you have to be...

... to be unchanged by something as momentous as the responsibilities of the highest office in the land?

[Kierkegaard]

7. Great qualities

So, let me get this straight; being presidential means being a 'gut player', having wrinkles, being able to identify a bird, working jigsaw puzzles and playing with a chainsaw?

Sounds like a pretty easy job. Where do I sign up?

[MurrayDelph]

9. Hey, don't knock the jigsaw puzzle.

He was very proud that it only took him a month to finish that puzzle:
the box said "Three to five years."

[kikiek]

8. It's called dry drunk Mr Bush. Inflexibility and grandiose behavior

are not considered desirable traits. Especially for the "leader of the free world". How frightening is that. I should add delusional but that probably is just him not the dry drunk. Or maybe not so dry drunk?

[Just Me]

10. Anyone who clings to (and advertises) being compared to a "hero",...

,...has a serious character defect,...and no sense of humility or humanity, whatsoever.

[Catfight]

11. ROFLMAO...Bush is disengaged, he's not interested in the Presidency,

and he certainly does strike me as tough guy...more like a spoiled rich coward kid who constantly failed throughout life and never lived up to his daddy's idea of him.

[bagnana]

12. yes, I believe that Bush said

"Laura, isn't that a scarlet tanager?" snort. More like "Laura, what's that red bird over there?"

[camby]

14. Bush, the Regular Guy

Stubborn, with an inflexibility that only one with a low IQ could muster, Bush has been unchanged by the presidency.... While nurturing a tough-guy exterior, Bush is secretly a pussycat. "I'm a gutless coward," he confessed.

Back home at the ranch in Crawford, when he's not engaging in manly activities like running around in circles or riding his bicycle, he is fond of more quiet pursuits, such as tearing the legs off grasshoppers or dousing frogs with gasoline and lighting them on fire. He gets particular enjoyment out of playing practical jokes on all the members of his entourage.

His 20/20 eyesight often enables him to spot crippled war veterans approaching from afar so that he can take appropriate evasive action.

[pinto]

15. Gag me with a spoon, Karen Hughes is back.....

looks like Karen, walks like Karen, talks like Karen.

Compassionate conservitive is back in the house in time for the RNC fest.

[ewagner]

31. Bingo

We're getting better at spotting Karenese Puff-Pieces

[grytpype]

16. What a dumbshit!

We are supposed to take his mental defects as virtues....

too stupid and impulsive to think things through = decisive,

too weak and insecure to admit he's made a mistake = steady.

He is a moron who fucks things up from the beginning and then forbids anyone to point out that he's fucked up and needs to change course... the worst imaginable president!!!!

He sucks!

[acmavm]

17. Suffers from an inability to learn, from his mistakes or anything else.

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[kodi]

22. so he has learned nothing, no compassion nor wisdom gained

i reminded of the jesus parable of the master who gives his servents gold talents and how they treated the gifts.

bush has buried his in the ground and deserves to have them taken away.

[rocktivity]

18. Japanese accents can be very difficult to understand

Is George sure he didn't mean Jackie "Uncle Fester Addams" Coogan?


:headbang:
rocknation

[gratuitous]

19. Except Gary Cooper headed out in "High Noon"

Lil George hides behind any convenient cover. Everything is always someone else's fault or God's will. Lil George is more like Harry Morgan. Coop would have sneered at Stupidhead's fake bravado.

[allalone]

20. That's the problem, george!!!

[young_at_heart]

21. He now walks kind of like a cowboy

I noticed him walking out to talk to reporters today and he seemed to have bowlegs. That happens to people who ride horses a lot. That drawl of his is unique for his family, I believe.

[camby]

23. So that's what he's been doing at his ranch this week:

Practicing acting like a cowboy!!!

[Andromeda]

42. G.W. does not ride horses.

He's scared to death of them.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

24. Once an asshole

always an asshole.

[Julien Sorel]

25. Sure, he's run the country into the ground, but he's a regular guy!

Vote for him!

[pa28]

41. No! He has greatness of a kind.

No average man could put us in a budget sinkhole for generations to come and ruin our standing in the world in just three short years. He's done that and more than I can list! "Average" or "regular" does not recognize his special skill for destroying things others have worked so hard to build.

[TrogL]

26. 20-20 isn't great, it's normal.

20-40 is great (ie. you can perceive at 40 feet what everybody else can only resolve at 20)

[pfitz59]

34. 20-20 my ass! He wears glasses!

BTW 20-10 beats 20-20. See at 20 feet, what most see at 10.

[bemildred]

27. This is LBN?????

It's very disorienting to come to LBN looking for news
and then run into a piece of political fellatio like this.

[truthisfreedom]

28. bush does NOT feel the weight of the world. he feels endless pressure from

his mafia handlers to continue his bizarre pretenses and keep the military-industrial complex and prison-industrial complex as profitable as possible.

[dweller]

29. wrinkles, my ass.

The only difference in a rut and a grave is the depth.

that *moron is both. Sadly, he is lacking in the intellectual depth to define either one.
dp

[MetaTrope]

30. Being President of the United States HASN'T CHANGED HIM?!

Jesus. Let that be his epitaph.

[priller]

32. I know. The final stupid words from a stupid man.

More of the Bush pathology. He can't admit to making any mistakes, so he can't say he's learned from them. He can't say he's a "better man" now, because then he would be admitting he was deficient.

Bush is the perfect, mistake-free Ruler, the ex cathedra Pope of America!

[AndyTiedye]

33. Never Has the Media Bent Over for a pResident Like This

:puffpiece::puffpiece::puffpiece::puffpiece::puffpiece::puffpiece:

[Dover]

35. Bush is that same sweet kid who blew up frogs....why would a little thing

like the presidency change him?

[IndianaGreen]

36. Bush was dumber than a door knob before he became President

and he is still dumber than a door knob. Of course he is unchanged!

[Geo55]

37. Someone on DU has it in their sig

...perfect fit for this...
Insanity :
performing the same action over and over and expecting a different result.

The mans workin' with an empty toolbox.

[TankLV]

38. Once a criminal, AWOL, coke snorting lying scumbag, always a criminal ...

I'd say he has grown - WORSE!

[Habibi]

39. Wow. Nice puff piece, Nancy.

Check the headline, and then check the 4th paragraph. I suppose her editor forbade her writing the headline as "Stubborn, cocky, Bush sees himself as unchanged by the presidency."

[DeepModem Mom]

40. Obsessive/compulsive -- every waking moment, spent resisting alcohol?

The discipline, the schedule -- he cannot allow spontaneity, ever, it seems. And then there's the mean streak, the resentment, that Laura tries to dispute.

[DoYouEverWonder]

43. "He has great 20-20 eyesight."

Then why does he wear reading glasses?

[depakid]

44. That Ms. Benac even got this past her editor

just goes to show how far this country has fallen.

Some people just lap this drivel up, though- vacuous as it is. This piece exemplifies all that honest, intelligent people like us are fighting. It's the image that's been built up that must be taken down and discredited. Shown for what it truly is.

If our side can't do that, then we stand to lose, regardless of the facts.

[area51]

45. "I'm a gut player"

GW Hoover said:

"I'm a gut player...."

To borrow a phrase, "In your guts, you know he's nuts."

[PATRICK]

46. 9/11 did not change Bush

I thought so. Starting from nervous deer in the headlights shiftiness to chortling joy at hitting the trifecta of 9/11 exploitation Bush remains the self-centered Favorite Son.

Still a drunk too, I suppose. Still as ignorant as a brick as he was during the campaign. Has not grown in the office. Suffers those Nixonian delusions of being a movie star tough guy(Send him a DVD of "Patton").

It's all we expected, after all, the insensitive, vacation loving delegater of pain and misery.

God has given him no grace to become better all these four years, by his own admission.

Another stupid contradicting statement. THAT certainly has not changed.

Boy, are they losing it as the Great Denial Convention looms.

[ixion]

47. once a loser, murderer, liar and thief

always the same. It's true what they say, I guess. People never changed.

[Love Bug]

48. OMG -- Bush is Frank Burns!

I was watching M*A*S*H last week and it was the episode where the 4077 members were interviewed (in black and white) for some TV program. Frank Burns was asked, "Have your experiences here changed you?" and he said "Not at all." with an expression of "why would they?" on his face. Bush is the perfect Frank Burns. An obnoxious, paranoid, cowardly, self-righteous asshole.