Does Bush really seem to want the job or.......

[slater71]

I saw the MTP interview and besides being stupid answering the questions, it just seem that he is not into it. Could it be that he does not want to do this and only there for the good of daddy's boys and the PNAC group? Just wondering if anyone else thought the same.

[theorist]

1. I think he loves being president.

Remember, he feels that God placed him there, and he is "on a path to lead America through hardships and strife" (or something moronic like that). I think he loves the power as well.

[TXDemGal]

2. He knows that if he says he doesn't wanna do it

his mother will kick his ass.

Do you doubt that?! Just look at the woman.

[fleetus]

3. I have thought this since 1999.

When he was running for president. George Bush is in over his head and I think he knows it. He was coaxed into the job by people who knew how to sweet talk him. Getting him to do their bidding once in office was equally easy. All the guy ever wanted was to be Baseball Commissioner, and I think deep down he wishes he never got suckered into this "President" thing.

But he also has a massive ego, so I don't think he'll be backing out without a fight. Plus it seems like everybody around him tries to make the job as easy for him as possible. It seems like he's always at that #&@*#$ ranch in Texas.

I wonder if they let him watch normal TV or use the Internet without a filter, though. All this criticism of him would probably stress him out!

[Solomon]

4. My Wife always said he never wanted the job in the first place.

I think he can see the benefits of losing as well as the pain of another four years at it.

[Taeger]

5. Bush said point blank...

Bush said point blank that " not going to lose!"

I wonder how much support he's counting on from Diebold.

[Lindacooks]

7. This stuff is getting into my head too much...

I dreamed last night that the election results were: Kerry 45%, Bush 80%.

Obviously stuffing the ballot boxes. And nobody cared.

[fleetus]

10. Your dream would be funnier if...

it said Kerry 55%, Bush 80%.

Also, you might try sleeping with a tinfoil hat so the WH does not try to steal that idea!

:tinfoilhat:

[kskiska]

6. I don't think he ever wanted the job

They must have told him he wouldn't really have to do much except pose for the pictures, that somebody else would do the heavy lifting, and he'd get that nice house, and the big airplane, and Camp David, and all those fancy White House desserts.

I have to wonder whether they ever approached Jeb at all, since Jeb was supposed to be the chosen one, and had slightly more brain power.

[mlawson]

8. I have wondered why it wasn't Jeb.

Does he have even more skeletons than GWB? Or was it GWB's birthright?? Or, did Jebbie turn it down?? Or, some completely different reason?

[SheilaT]

9. Remember the summer of 2001?

When W wasn't getting his way all the time? He was being pretty pissy and took off to Crawford, TX for an entire month. There were all kinds of rumors at the time that he'd resign or that Cheney (due to poor health) was going to be resigned -- I forget the name of the person most rumored to be in line to replace Uncle Dick.

Anyway, it was getting very clear that W really wasn't happy, that being president wasn't anything like he'd thought it would be. He was acting just like some spoiled rich kid who was getting ready to take his bat and ball and stomp off home. Clearly no one had explained to him that being president was nothing like being governor of Texas -- this was a real job.

And then, and then, September rolled around, and he made a trip to Florida. While he was in Florida some very bad men took over some airplanes and very bad things happened. And ever since then he's sort of been happy as president. Sort of. As long as everyone plays by his rules. Sometimes other people want to follow other rules, and he doesn't like that at all.

Which is why paying careful attention to his body language, to his verbal tics and clues of drinking is so very important. As Mark Crispin Miller pointed out in The Bush Dislexicon Bush is very fluent, no stutters or verbal tics when he's saying exactly what he believes.

[Taeger]

11. That implies ...

That implies that he was lying LIKE CRAZY on the "Meet the Press" interview. He sounded like a babbling idiot.

I still think he's using an earpiece for verbal cues.