Bush is looking really ragged these days... more feeble minded than usual...

[DemoRabbit]

I'm serious... I really have never liked the man and always thought him a bit of an idiot, but it all seems much more exaggerated lately. He doesn't LOOK good and he sounds even worse. What the hell is wrong with him?

[groovedaddy]

1. Who'd a thought it was possible!?! n.t

[Enrique]

2. i've forgotten about him

what's he been up to?

[DemoRabbit]

3. He was just on TV talking about Yemen - he looked TERRIBLE!

[Sal Minella]

10. He and his pretentious entourage were last sighted clogging up emergency routes around Galveston,

IIRC. Saw a photo of him with a map in front of him. And he had his blue "I'm werkin HARD" shirt on with the sleeves rolled up, of course. Didn't notice if he had it buttoned right or not.

From the look on his face, I'd say he never bothered to learn to read a map, and he's not putting up much of a pretence, either. Just standing there looking like a man who finally, at long last, realizes he's been had.

[JeffR]

4. The last piece of his legacy was cemented in place this week

and he knows it.

[polichick]

5. Considering all those pics of him during the Olympics, looks like he's drinking again...

...if he ever really stopped.

[bdamomma]

21. he never stopped been pumped on booze and meds all this time.

[SammyWinstonJack]

28. I think that is true.

[Virginia Dare]

26. He supposedly was on those anti-alcohol drugs for a time..

it's usually a life or death situation when they put you on those.

[bdamomma]

30. when will we get the whole story about this dry drunk

remember when Kissinger was running things for Nixon cause Kissinger found Nixon totally drunk and talking to the walls.

geez, is it pitchforks and torches time yet?

[Virginia Dare]

31. The Bush family are experts at keeping secrets..

they've been doing it for generations.

[willing dwarf]

6. I think it's a degenerative brain disease after years of brain pickling

through alchohol and drugs. In his case it's not the late nights, since we know he and Laura are in bed by what? 9 pm isn't it?

Also, the many falls off his mountain bike have probably addled him a bit. And finally, I'm sure Cheney has kept his intestines twisting with one of those mideval torture devices during sessions of Cheney playing his fantasy role as Vlad the Impaler...power, the ultimate aphrodisiac....

(I may be slightly beyong the realm of certainty on that last point, but close, I'm sure)

[radfringe]

7. he's just realizing that

he hasn't any clothes...

[Old and In the Way]

8. I wish I could sympathize with him.

But his policies have pretty much destroyed this country and his legacy.

What I find odd is now well Cheney looks. After 8 years of personal profiteering and war mongering, he's actually looking better than he did in 2000.

[willing dwarf]

11. Maybe Cheney's sucking blood from Bush, vampire style?

[DemoRabbit]

16. LOL...

[MotorCityMan]

19. If I remember correctly, Nixon was like Cheney that way

It can be pretty shocking how much aging the presidents go through by the end of their term. Looking at pictures of the presidents at the start and end of their term a good indication of how stressful the job is.

Nixon was a definite exception. He seemed to thrive on it. He did not look all that aged by the time he resigned.

As for *, I hope he never knows a peaceful night's sleep for the rest of his miserable life. I hope he is haunted every day by his "legacy". I hope Karma smacks him upside the head big time. He thought he would enjoy playing pretzeldent, having everyone bow and scrape to him ("That's MISTER President!") but it turned out to be much, much more than he can handle, and way too much like work.

I don't think he is, though. I think * is a total sociopath. It's only about him and how it affects him. Nothing else matters.

[HughBeaumont]

9. He's pretty much having Bernanke and Paulson run the store until 1.20.09.

Not that the dry drunk hasn't been on autopilot for 8 years anyway.

This is the worst administration. EVER.

[bdamomma]

22. how to destroy the country and the world in 8 long years

the founding fathers are rolling in their graves.


Arrest these criminals now.

[Virginia Dare]

34. Four years wasn't enough time for him to completely fuck it up..

so the American people "gave" him another term. "Mission Accomplished".

[Virginia Dare]

33. Don't forget Cheney is running around the Balkans..

busting kneecaps and such, trying to heat up this new cold war with Russia.

[Suji to Seoul]

12. Cocaine's a helluva drug. Maybe his seven year bender ended and it's the morning after!

[underpants]

13. Who, ME?

[Javaman]

14. being a chronic alcoholic will do that. nt

[madrchsod]

15. he is coming to the end and he knows

he has been a failure all his life.

but he will never atone for his sins.

[ITsec]

17. "Dave" (the movie)

It's really not him. It's a stunt double.

Most likely the real Shrub is in solitary confinement at Betty Ford.

[MadHound]

18. Drinking heavily

That's what it appears to me to be. He's at the end of his run, he's pretty much irrelevant anymore, so he's just climbing into a bottle and going to become comfortably numb.

[DevonRex]

24. I agree. nt

[quabbin]

20. The Bubble bursts

Reality is finally getting through the famous Bush Bubble. You can really see it in his appearance now. The swagger is gone from you know "our first MBA President". His decisions and policies have created chaos on the national and world scene. Don't believe his comments about being vindicated by history. He knows for the rest of his days he will be mocked and ridiculed for what he has wrought on this great country. Remember how in the first nine months of his presidency he was completely adrift? People were beginning to notice. Then came 9/11, a rude awakening for him and the rest of us and the beginning of this dark journey we now find ourselves on. Read the next to last paragraph of the Aug. 6th, 2001 PDB handed to him a month before the attack. In it the FBI clearly stated they had detected what appeared to be preparations for hijackings. He ignored the stark warnings he received that day. He has failed his country. It is written all over his face.

[Virginia Dare]

27. He now realizes that Cheney and PNAC were just using him for a tool..

left him with a legacy as being the worst President in the history of this country.

Welcome to DU!...:hi:

[mnhtnbb]

23. Actually, he was just about the most articulate I've ever heard him

in a clip played on The News Hour with Jim Lehrer either last night or night before. He was talking
about the price of gas and the hurricane effect on the pipeline. Full sentences. No scrambled
syntax. I was astonished. Of course, the bar is pretty low for Bush, but damn, he sounded like a normal person.

[Virginia Dare]

25. Supposedly he had another "benign" growth removed ..

who knows what's really going on with his health. We know he's probably drinking pretty heavily again, as evidenced by the pictures of him where he looked falling down drunk in China.

[rvablue]

29. Even a self-centered, megalomaniac jerk can realize....

...that he has managed to destroy our country.
While idiotic, he is no idiot.
Even if he "did what he believed" history WILL NOT be kind to this man, and he knows it.
Gotta say, when I saw him last on TV, I actually did feel sorry for him. He looks like he just wants to get the heck outta there.

[graywarrior]

32. He and Cheney are making their final deals with the devil

That takes a lot out of you. Not Cheney tho....he's a robot.

[zippy890]

35. I noticed that too - he's lost his smirk

he reads his speeches with no inflection in his voice, and he does look ragged.

wonder if someone showed him Vince Bugliosi's book.

[Arugula Latte]

36. It's like senior year of high school, and every day for him is "Senior Skip Day"

where he blows off work and gets wasted.

[yardwork]

37. He's looked terrible for years. I think he's been drinking heavily.

He's on heavy doses of prescription drugs, too, I would bet.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

38. He can't wait to shed his man suit and go climb a tree

The call of the wild has been eating away at the poor chimp for years and years.

[ailsagirl]

39. We've wondered that for 8 years... remember, "it's hard work!"

:rofl: