"I Like Making Decisions": The Bush Interview That 60 Minutes Didn't Transcribe

[kpete]

"I Like Making Decisions": The Bush Interview That 60 Minutes Didn't Transcribe
Nick Douglas | Huffington Post | Posted Monday January 15, 2007 at 03:17 PM

"I like making decisions," President Bush told Scott Pelley in a 60 Minutes interview at Camp David. In the interview, posted in video form but untranscribed on CBSnews.com, Bush shows that he also likes saying "decision" to the press. The chart below shows how often he said the word during each of the interview's nine minutes, including two times when he practically shouted it.



Twenty-four "decision"s in under nine minutes. It's an inelegantly noticeable tactic, but more confusingly, it merely emphasizes that the new Iraq plan was Bush's choice. That may communicate presidential strength, but why not emphasize a more specific word or phrase (as with the administration's emphases on "terror," "war on terror," "cut and run," and other more evocative terms)? Does Bush really think this "decision"-ing will make a difference, or has he just picked up a verbal tic after reading The Purpose-Driven Life?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eat-the-press/2007/01/15/i-like-making-decisions_e_38709.html

[neoblues]

1. It make me feel 'portant...

an shows everyone how smart I is.

[kskiska]

12. He's said from the beginning

"A President's job is to make decisions."

I guess someone told him that and it stuck. I also remember him lecturing, "There are three branches of government…"

Must have been his tutoring. He just had to share the info.

[meegbear]

2. Well, he IS the Decider ...

coo-coo-keychoo.

[Clevenger]

3. Bush is told which words and phrases to emphasize...

...during encounters with the press, and his handlers evidently told him to keep pressing the "Decider" button. That was another bad idea, but the pricks who run the monkey are running out of options.

[NJCher]

4. there's something seriously wrong with that statement

I mean, who says that: "I like making decisions." About the only place I can think of is on a personality profile or inventory. People just don't go around saying "I enjoy making decisions."

Unless....of course, one has been accused of being a puppet, the person in front of the man behind the curtain. Then one might "protest too much" by saying "I like making decisions." I think bush is "perception managing."

Effing liar. He never stops.

One thing I do believe: I believe he made this decision, with Cheney, of course. The "surge" is such a lamebrained, wrong-way decision that it probably is the one and only decision he ever made in his presidency.



Cher

edited to add: Welcome, Clevenger :)

[Marie26]

7. "I like having power"

Is what he's really saying. But that sound a little too, I don't know, fascist to say in public.

[Binka]

10. With Condi & Cheney Crooning In His Ear "Decisions My Precious"

The little narcissistic ass carrot is being played like a cheap trombone but he thinks he is bedazzling us with his decision making prowess. Gawd he is so predictable. And nauseating. :puke:

[indepat]

5. Wish there were one good decision in six years

[AnotherMother4Peace]

6. He also uses the word "I" when presenting courses of action (like going to war)

not "we" that would be expected in a Democracy. I noticed that about him early on, and every time it makes me think of his "As long as I'm the dictator" remark. God help us.

[Mandate My Ass]

8. I'm also sick of him describing what kind of person he is

"I'm not a revengeful person," or "I'm a compassionate person," or "I'm the decider" etc. He's a megalomaniac and it makes me want to scream, "NOBODY CARES, CHUCKLEHEAD!" :puke:

[Binka]

11. He Is A Malignant Narcissist

It is ALWAYS about him. POTUS = Piece Of Totally Useless Shit.

[Uben]

9. Of all the people on earth

...why would the republicans choose an alcoholic, cocaine addicted, lying coward SOB like Bush to make decisions? HE is one of the last people on earth I would choose!

The same goes for Cheney. These cowards should be in prison pressing license plates, not working in the WH for gods sake. Just shows how low the republican party has sank. They had to go to the dregs to find people to represent them.