Body Language is part of the bushgang's mode of operation

[donsu]

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/22/opinion/22DOWD.html?ex=1083211200&en=af1717884d4c4f57&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE

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Bob Woodward's new book, "Plan of Attack," reveals that President Bush decided to go to war based mostly, believe it or not, on body language.

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The president explained to Mr. Woodward that he had wanted to talk to Tommy Franks in person about the Iraq war plan. " `I'm watching his body language very carefully,' Mr. Bush recalled. He emphasized the body language, the eyes, the demeanor. It was more important than some of the substance. . . . `Is this good enough to win?' he recalled asking Franks, leaning forward in his chair and throwing his hand forward in a slicing motion at my face to illustrate the scene."

As the president studied the physio-semiotics of those around him, they studied his. " `I knew my relationship with the president and the access and his interest and how he feels and his body language on things,' " a typically cocky Donald Rumsfeld said.

The author writes of the Cheney aide and Iraq hawk Scooter Libby: "He was watching the president carefully, noting the body language and the verbal language ordering war planning for Iraq, the questions, attitudes and tone."

When the C.I.A. briefers told Mr. Bush that to recruit sources inside Iraq, they would have to say the U.S. was coming with its military — putting him in the awkward position of simultaneously pursuing diplomatic and military solutions — Condoleezza Rice watched the president. "The president's body language suggested he had received the message, but he didn't make any promises."

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When the president at long last informed his top diplomat that he was going to war, Colin Powell could tell from the president's body language that there was no point in arguing: "It was the assured Bush. His tight, forward-leaning, muscular body language verified his words."
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since smirk can't communicate verbally, they have to read his body language?

the white house has turned into an insane asylum

[livetohike]

1. We can watch body language too

especially when their eyes look up and to the left when they speak. This means they are lying. Watch for it next time (if you can bring yourself to actually look at any one of them anymore, LOL).

[napi21]

3. You're right about the up-looking eyes.

And body language is a really terrific way of judging someone. I'm a bit surprised that Shrub does that. I learned to watch body language years ago. It not only gives you good insight to the validity of what you're hearing, but a lot of personality shows without that person even realzing it.

Watch Shrub the next time he's answering unrehearsed questions. If he looks directly at the questioner and answers, he's telling you what he really thinks. If he dances around the podium, looks up then down, and fiddles with papers, he's hunting for a story.

[LittleApple81]

2. Who has seen "Being There" with Peter Sellers? Bush is our "Chance".

Sellers garnered his second Oscar nomination for the critically acclaimed film, Being There (1979), in which he played the child-like Chance, a gardener mistaken for an economic guru. Sellers' controlled performance was key to the success of this subtle comedy.

Except that our Chance is not child-like but idiot like.

[bif]

4. Didn't Bush major in Physio-Semiotics?

Oh, that's right. He majored in business. I forgot.