De Hal--
> We Murricans figure Bush is doing a "good job" when he manages
> to remain vertical and doesn't look at his wristwatch during
> a press conference or photo op. When he rolls up his
> shirt sleeves, he's doing a "very good job."
Remains vertical. Right. We assume--let us finally say it--that he isn't drinking again. He's probably not but I would not call him sober either.
Crisis mode brings out everything that Bush is but nobody dares discuss. He is demonstrating the behaviors we associate with a classic "dry drunk": the need to feel in control, a feeling at war with the inability to make up his mind, a total inability--once the mind IS made up by whomever--to bend even an inch and do a course correction. There is also the idea that once he shows up, it's okay--he's there, right?, even if he's four days too late. Backing down is the sign of a coward. Concession is backing down.
Bush, normally just an immensely stupid man, in situations like this becomes ever more frightening. You glimpse how fragile he is, how desperate and savage he can be when opposed or even questioned, and how that power he truly owns could explode all over us like a paintball filled with acid.
I didn't fear even LBJ or Nixon (sorry, Rachel:-) as much as I fear this man.
Ken
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