From RE/search-Why Bush Can't Talk

Why Bush Can't Talk: It's not the drugs, and it's not senility.

Bush's press conferences and unscripted remarks are so painfully bad, it
spurs the question: what is his PROBLEM? People have remarked that he wasn't
that way when he was the Governor of Texas, and therefore theorize that he has
deteriorated due to premature senility or a lifetime of drug use. I think the
reason George Bush stumbles, ends sentences midway through to jump to another
thought, rattles off non-sequiturs, and makes up words, is that George Bush is
breaking under the strain of lying almost all the time about almost
everything...lying is hard work, and he's trying to hold several different false
scenarios in his head while not blurting out what he's really being told behind
closed doors.

 

Bush looks like a person stumbling over the easiest things, but in fact,
he's not a person unable to relate simple facts. He's a person trying hard to
NOT relate simple facts. He's a person trying to avoid the pitfalls of saying
what's on his mind, and trying to keep his stories straight.

 

As I lawyer, I see people trying to construct false scenarios all the time.
But you don't remember lies the way you remember truth. It's easier to remember,
e.g., how fast you were driving than it is to remember the exact lie you told
the police officer about how fast you were driving. People who lie have to put a
lot of energy into keeping their lies consistent with each other and, well,
consistent with undeniable facts.

 

My grand theory is that Bush's entire presidency, from the beginnings of
his campaign until now, is based on his taking public stances that at least
obscures goals and positions shared secretly. He and his Roves have always
accepted that the majority of the country wouldn't want him if they knew the
promises he made to the right wing christians and the rich, if they knew the
actual effect of his tax cuts, if they knew the evidence behind environmental
damage, and on and on. Now, he's hiding the entire foreign policy fiasco(s), who
is being held by him incognito, who is being spied upon, what he knew before
9/11, and on and on and on.

 

If you had so much to hide, you too would only use canned speeches,
carefully vetted by speechwriters who don't know the real story anyway, to keep
it all straight, and you would stumble and hem and haw in all other
circumstances.

 

Which explains why his problem wasn't so evident as Texas Governor.  Bush's
brand of crony capitalism and piestic christianism went down well in Austin, at
least for a governor with no real constitutional authority: Bush only had to
repackage himself for the national race, essentially submerge his real persona
and his real ideas and his real goals and pretend to a compassionate,
not-asshole conservativism.

 

You know how they tell you, on a date, just be yourself?  nd how you think,
no, I don't want her to meet that guy just yet? Well, Bush and Rove have been
saying that for six years, and Bush has been schizo, trying to send signals and
winks and nods to his fundamentalist christians and send money to his corporate
sponsors while slinging a load of bull at the nation. Add to that all the bodies
he has to keep buried, and you've got a guy who is in a state of flop sweat
every time he has to open his mouth in public.

 

Bush isn't senile, or drug addled.  He's a lying asshole. And it's hard
work.  Only truly gifted and intelligent sociopaths like Rove and Cheney can
rattle it off.  Bush can't. [end]