LOL, Have any of you seen this video? About a 1/3 the way through it, Bush is slurring "decision" and then the topic is CitiGroup bank and he calls them CitiCorp... unless of course that's a corporate name for them. Anyway, after listening to this accidentally, I wondered if our President wasn't under the influence of something other than a casual beer.

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I wish his stupidity was that easy to explain away, but a someone with a little too much experience with both of those drugs I know that not even being stoned and drunk could drag a moderately intelligent person so far down dumb*** lane as our President travels.

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"A word to the wise is infuriating."

Nothing new. You've got to hand it to him, though -- relative to his innate intelligence and nuanced thinking, he is probably the greatest overachiever in the history of the planet.

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That particular clip could just be explained by the fact that Bush plainly does not do too well in public appearances...it is my opinion that he suffers from great anxiety when speaking in public (you can tell, imo, by his mannerisms and speech patterns).

Perhaps he uses drugs/booze to counteract this anxiety:




...15 drinks down at the bar, and send Bush off to the press conference!

I personally don't like the man, but I'm not a US citizen and don't like to tell other people who to pick as their President.
Bush's speech slurring is not a new thing - he mispronounces "nuclear" and I have also heard him stumble over names of countries (although I can't think of a specific example). As he was probably reasonably well educated (?) it sounds like some sort of speech defect, a mild stroke perhaps.
I wouldn't care if he stammered and stuttered if he would only say something sensible and stop repeating cliches and buzz words. It might give him some home-town folksy appeal, but it doesn't do much for his credibility.

Just in case anyone didn't notice, the second clip is altered to make Bush appear drunk.

To the point - the man is probably like most of us; we want so badly to do well but these intentions are easily corrupted by personal gain and the influence of snakes (think Nixon). Add to Bush's nearly non-existent backbone a severe lack of education (I don't care what school he went to, them man is clearly uneducated), a crowd of friends and advisers who are some of the nastiest individuals this nation has seen, and a severely retarded worldview, you end up with one of the worst, most disastrous administrations in our nation's history.

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"A word to the wise is infuriating."

Decades of heavy boozing and partying also may have taken its toll on the man...whether or not he still drinks, the damage was/is done.

Sure, he partied hard... cocaine and all that, but really unless you go way over the edge, you can recover pretty well. You generally only get an Ozzie Osborn when you have a Jim Morrison live past 35.

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"A word to the wise is infuriating."

It seems that he was basically an alcoholic from his pre-college years all the way up until the age of 40 when he supposedly quit drinking. If that's the case, then permanent damage is likely.

I'm not a citizen of Zimbabwe, but I've got no problem criticizing Robert Mugabe.

Quite well educated... Yale undergrad and Harvard Business School. But he's extraordinarily inarticulate and awkward. I doubt it's a stroke -- strokes usually produce much different kinds of speech deficits.

He talks to us as if we're children, which insults our intelligence. There are ways to convey complicated things to laypeople without treating them like idiots.

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