Bush's bipolar face

[Christa]

http://www.davidcogswell.com/HeadBlast/BushFace.html

If you look at Bush's face in this context, it is immediately striking how different the two sides look. If you block off one side or the other from your vision and only look at one half of the face, you see a very different face on one side from what is on the other.

On the right side of the picture above -- the socially constructed, outwardly directed side, we see the famous Bush smirk. It is a little chimp-like, a little mischievous. It's cocky and defiant, but more or less friendly about it.

On the left side of the face, the side that represents the unconscious, the deeper levels of the personality, the hidden, private side, there is no smirk. If you block off the left side of the picture and look only at the left side of his face, there is no trace of a smile. There is no warmth, none of the familiar, friendly fratboy we have come to know.

Instead on the left side of the face, you see a cold stare. A deep hollow stare that looks right through you. The end of the mouth turns down sharply, in stark contrast to the right side, on which his mouth turns up a bit.

In Mark Crispin Miller's Bush Dyslexicon he says he discovered through a study of Bush's habits of language that under the surface of the funny, backslapping, gladhanding, nicknaming, cheerleading guy, somewhat goofy and not particularly cerebral, there is another much darker, more determined, cagier, personality lurking. It is the right side of the face where you can see a flicker of the soul of Nixon.

[MsAnthropy]

1. Definitely creepy

His face has morphed right before our eyes in the last few years, taking on more and more of the evil in him.

[tularetom]

2. Or else he's had a stroke

and they ain't telling us.

[Fridays Child]

3. Here's another example of the evil within...

[LunaC]

4. Great visual and accompanying commentary.

Bookmarked. Thanks!

[Nite Owl]

5. Didn't we have a

two face campaign last year on DU? One side was white and the other black, it appeared on the front page when you signed in.

[SpiralHawk]

6. One side is the SKULL - the other side is the BONES

Who knows what OCCULT brainwaves oscillate beneath the skull of the presidential bone?