Anyone else notice how Bush splays his fingers than slaps his hand

[Swede]

on the desk or podium in time with his speech as he tries to make a point? I don't think I've seen other politicians do this.

[Mojambo]

1. I've only seen

small children and retarded people do it.

I'll leave it to you to decide which one Bush is.

[BrotherBuzz]

2. I think Mussolini did that too

Hmmmmm

[VOX]

3. My thoughts exactly!

My mind just went there -- there's a famous sequence of Il Duce slapping a podium for emphasis while he speaks.

Weird.

[BrotherBuzz]

4. That's the one!

I have that image burned in my mind...no sound, just the silent film footage that spoke volumes.

[northstar]

5. I thought it might have something to do with 'trying to get the'blood off'

"Out damned spot! Out I say! One: two: why then "tis time to do"t: hell is murky. Fie, my lord, fie, a soldier, and afeard? What need we fear who knows it when none can call out power to account? Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?".
-- Wm. Shakespeare's 'Macbeth'

[Swede]

6. He can't shake it off.

Actually I hope someday he gets a conscience and is tormented the rest of his days.