The penny dropped - I recognize the source of Bush's "walk"

[ChairmanAgnostic]

Everyone here has seen it - the strut, the stroll, the infamous Bush Walk.
He expands his chest a bit, like a weight lifter, inhales, then struts accross the White House Lawn slowly enough for the MSM cameras to capture his strength, his virility, his "man-ness".

IN a 1953 flick called Law and Order, Ronald Reagan played a retired marshall called back to duty. Dorothy Malone and Alex Nicol starred with him.

Except for the bit with the horse (Reagan loved to ride, while Bush has a phobia about horsies) there are several scenes when Reagan walks the walk across the dusty western town expanse. I swear, the same mannerisms, the same eyeing the crowd, the same Bush Walk. You can easily imagine Bush practicing that strut before a mirror and a big screen TV.

Funny, Bush wears an identical shirt etc when he clears brush from his "ranch".

This explains a lot about bush. He lives in a bubble, an almost make-believe world. The way today's White House is organized, and the way news, information, chance meetings with outsiders and pretty much everything is controlled (partly due to the way the WH operates, partly due to an overpowersul Secret Service, and partly by design) Bush gets no outside contact, no uncontrolled information, no rubbing elbows with the world, except on terms dictated and planned out by others.

Bush's personality is precisely the wrong one to deal inside that kind of world. He thrives on pampering, and expects it always.

WHile may of us love to call him an idiot, he is anything but. He has a huge ego, a clear vision of what he wants, and he has absolutely a complete lack of empathy. He is also lazy and easily manipulated by people he trusts. Cheney knows exactly what he is dealing with. So long as he treats him as the Big Cowboy, the Man, he can get what he wants out of Bush. That is also why Bush surrounds himself with adoring and doting women - Condi, Harriet, and Hughes. Laura used to be in that crowd, but for Bush's binge drinking.

[soothsayer]

1. Wouldn't surprise me a bit! very good.

[MissWaverly]

2. remember "let's smoke him out" of his cave

that's from an old western too.

[Sal Minella]

17. "We've got him on the run" -- with zero awareness that this equates to

"We haven't the foggiest freaking idea where he is."

[MissWaverly]

19. truer words were never spoken

it's appearing to be in control with no responsibility or consequences, cue the photo op leadership role, please

[SpiralHawk]

3. "But, but, but, I really am a tough guy, really I am" - Commander AWOL

"stop being mean to me just because I am a
Connecticut yankee preppy cheerleader pretend-Texan
republicon CHICKENHAWK who deserted
his National Guard Unit and wimped out on 9/11"

- Commander AWOL

[badgerpup]

21. Interesting .gif...

Did it come from Tod Browning's movie Freaks?

Just it reminds me of what 'happened' to the female antagonist after she tried to off her wealthy midget husband...:scared:

[Ms. Clio]

4. a very astute and interesting observation n/t

[peekaloo]

5. Cowtoy. n/t

[DrRang]

6. Also similarities to Homer Simpson--the palms turned backwards. nt

[GeorgeGist]

7. Do you doubt that Laura wakes up ...

in the middle of the night, in the cold sweat fear of the monster in her bed?

"George" reminds me of "Dave" (the movie) except nearly everything/everyone is reversed.

[Arkansas Granny]

8. You nailed it in the last paragraph. Bush only wanted the prestige

of being President, not the actual job and responsibilities of the office. He willingly allowed others manipulate him because it's all about his ego and not about serving the American people and his country. I have thought for a long time that he was groomed by PNAC for the Presidency for his name recognition and the fact that he would let them dictate policy while he played the part of the "leader of the free world". He's nothing but a tool.

[rasputin1952]

9. His entire life is based on illusion...he's always been a bit of an

arrogant little twerp, but I beg to differ w/you on your statement that he is not an idiot, he is an idiot. He covers his stupidity w/all kinds od little mannerisms designed to obfuscate his stupidity.

The walk, the "talks" from what appeared to be a library, (well, at least there were books in the background), the walk, the moronic "brush clearing" episodes, it is all garbage produced to make him appear as competent. He is as far from competent as a human can get, he knows it, deep inside, so he makes up for it by "playing" at something he thinks will make him look like more than he is, an empty shell of a human being.

When FDR was president, George Marshall made an effort to never laugh at FDR's jokes, he made an effort to ensure the questions about decisions the FDR made were given the proper scrutiny, and questions were answered. On more than one occasion, FDR sid that Marshall was his most trusted and intelligent confidant.

Marshall was indeed genius material, and we can thank Marshall for many things that FDR initiated, and quite a few things that those questions the president got, for some decisions not coming to fruition. There is no one of Marshall's caliber w/in 100 miles of the bush WH...it is all designed to float bush's ego, and if he had something that resembled a functioning brain, he'd realize that. But bush is so far from reality, he cannot fathom he might be wrong...for that idiocy, and apparent lack of sanity, this country has paid a horrendous price.

[NJCher]

11. agreed, bush is definitely an idiot

And as far as Cheney knowing exactly what he's dealing with, get read with yourself. Cheney is even farther removed from reality than bush, if that's possible.

Anyway, the rest of your post is on target. There was a book that came out during the first four years of bush's WH occupancy and it described how they used Reagan as the model, even down to the ranch and the brush nonsense. Can't recall the name of it...anyone?

Hey rasputin :hi:



Cher

[rasputin1952]

18. Reagan was pretty distant from anything bordering on what

many of us consider really as well...not to include the Alzheimer's that came in the later years.

Reagan's entire life was based on illusion as well. A B actor, he believed that ridiculous hype he received. He was of average intelligence, basically a nice human being, but he was trapped in the whole Hollywood world of facades and ego-centrism. As a politician, he'd be a C-; pretty well in the lower middle. How he got to A+ status is another showing of how the smoke machine works.

Portrayed as a model of "family values", grandfatherly compassion, courage and moral terpitude...Reagan was none of these, but the people "bought" it. The reality was that his "family values" sucked rocks, just ask his kids or Jane Wyman. He went for Nancy, who was well known in Hollywood circles as basically a whore who would screw a dog if she could get a part in a movie.

Grandfatherly compassion...Reagan cared about no one but himself and Nancy...even his kids didn't enter the equation unless there was something in it for him or Nancy.

Courage...He sat out WWII as a Captain in the Army Signal COrps in Hollywood, making various movies. Some of said movies were cheap propaganda shots, some were "made in 48 hours" screwy war flicks that were made on sound stages to bring up morale, and a couple of halfway decent flicks that at least did not make him look like a complete buffoon. The single largest mistake Reagan made was in the "courage" dept. He showed a complete lack of courage following the Beirut bombing. By leaving Beirut, he signaled the radical aspects of Islam that the US would not take a fight ot them. This led directly to bin-Laden and others to begin planning attacks...resulting in 2 WTC incidents, USS Cole incident and other incidents around the world where we have influence.

Moral terpitude...Reagan was immoral as they get. He was a hypocrite, an absentee father, a cheapskate when it came to his kids, he left Jane for Nancy, and he was just plain self-centered.

Some mold to pattern bush after...and people wonder why we're in such a terrible situation...:eyes:

:hi:

[DaveJ]

10. Good point, He's living in make-believe...

While most of us have to live in the real world where we have to earn every dime, * has either been given or stolen every thing he's had without even the slightest comprehension that others have to appear tough in order to avoid getting shanked. In most cases the way we present ourselves is not an joke or an act but environmental necessity.

[MissWaverly]

15. yes look at his landing on the aircraft carrier

The speech as timed for late-afternoon, "magic hour light," which "cast a golden glow on Bush."
The jet landing on the Abraham Lincoln cost taxpayers 1 million-the White House had said that
it was the only way the president to reach the ship on time. (In fact, it was an easy helicopter
hop from shore.) So, the ship was turned around around so viewers would not see the California
coastline and would think the ship was far out at sea.

from page 246
"Media, Manipulation of" The Bush-Hater-s Handbook: A Guide to the Most Appalling Presidency of the
Last 100 Years."

by Jack Huberman

[lonestarnot]

12. I have to disagree.

Condi, Harriet, and Hughes, Laura are heifers, not women.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

32. LOL! great one.

but they had one thing in common. W can do no wrong.

[MrsMatt]

34. too old to be heifers

Cows would be the appropriate term.

[rucky]

13. Give me a well-meaning idiot...

over a swaggering maniac, any day.

If those are the choices.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

28. if those are the choices, then I agree.

someone driven to evil is far more dangerous than someone who only makes mistakes and is not aware of many factors. Even if hell's path is laid with the best of intentions, the folks racing down that path are the swaggering maniacs.

[Jonathan50]

14. When I saw your stringer I thought..

Yosemite Sam... :)

[glitch]

20. That's where Reagan got it. nt

[mitchum]

16. He's like a very dangerous 8 year old (n/t)

[HamdenRice]

22. My very first OP on DU was about how much I hated Bush's walk

He was walking next to Vicente Fox, who is tall and has a natural athletic, relaxed stride. The chimpster was next to him all puffed up and looked ridiculous.

[femrap]

23. Don't forget that the 'man'

is a complete sadist....he enjoys seeing what he has done to the Iraqi people....I think he especially enjoys killing the women and children.

The 'man' is complete and utter Evil.

[BurtWorm]

24. It's just the pole up his ass.

[Buns_of_Fire]

25. I always thought maybe his codpiece was chafing him a little. (n/t)

[HCE SuiGeneris]

26. Is this the walk to which you refer?

[Mnemosyne]

30. I believe that is his Frankenstein walk, or

the thorazine shuffle.

[uppityperson]

27. Yup. Problem is there are so many definitions of "idiot"

egotistical maniac fits also. I don't think he is stupid, but egotistical

[smirkymonkey]

29. I live for the day when that disgusting excuse for a human being

is PUBLICLY humiliated, preferable in front of the whole world. Something along the lines of him tripping and falling, splitting open his pants, where it is revealed that he is wearing lacy women's underwear and a garter while the entire spectacle is being broacast across the globe.

[Mnemosyne]

31. I simply want * to publicly breakdown and

start babbling the Truth about it all, or at least 9/11.

[formercia]

33. You hit the nail on the head.

pass me the hammer....