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04/22/2004 Archived Entry: "Takes one to know one."
Takes one to know one.
Bush is nuts, MoDo writes about it.
The younger Bush, suspicious of Clintonesque dialectical fevers and interminable analyses, did not bother to ask most of his top advisers what they thought. The less Dick Cheney talked, the more power Mr. Bush entrusted in him.Like the silent, cool-hand cowboy he aspires to be, who would shoot a man just because he didn't like the way the varmint was looking at him, the president preferred doing gut checks, visually sizing up advisers and Saddam, rather than dwelling on pesky facts.
He did not probe deeply to reconcile advisers' assessments. He cared only about their spine, figuratively and literally. There was no skeptical debate in the Oval Office like the one before the Cuban missile crisis in 1962.
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."
Hold up. I just read the rest of that piece. They're all fucking nuts.
Replies: 6 people speak up
God do I hate Jeb?! Bush. Us Floridians are stuck with that ass-nutt. Please do not let us spend another 4 years with his coked-out freakazoid older brother GW. Remember J.Q> Adams? He was elected on frauduent terms just like GW. JQA was not re-elected; please make history repeat itself.
Posted by Jeremi Tripp @ 04/22/2004 03:18 AM NY
Prez Bush does seem to be skilled in paying attention to how people look..remember those times when he said "you have a beautiful face"?
Posted by LML @ 04/22/2004 09:50 AM NY
Posers. Tories. Aristocracy. Arrogant blue bloods. Position based on dreams. Fables.
Heridity. The latest version of the age old story, "the king as no substance".
Posted by Aristophanes @ 04/22/2004 11:12 AM NY
i believe he said "purty face" not "beautifull face" but yes, they are all bat shit insane
Posted by justin @ 04/22/2004 12:46 PM NY
purdy has a whole different connotation than "beautiful"
Posted by djdissent @ 04/22/2004 03:10 PM NY
yeah, "purty" has more of a "getting sodomized by a hillbilly" feel to it, as opposed to "beautifull" which has more of a "take you out to dinner first" feel...
Posted by justin @ 04/22/2004 04:21 PM NY
