Let Me Explain How Bush Sounded Like A Grounded Nine-Year-Old Yesterday ...

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Let's break down Bush's responses:

BUSH: It’s bad in Iraq. (extremely long pause) Does that help? (Laughter.)

This is the sort of response you'd expect from a nine-year-old who is about to be punished. "Say you're sorry," the parent says. "I'm sorry," the child replies.

"Does that help?" Bush asks, and the nervous laughter follows from the gathering. Like the guilty child hoping for redemption, Bush doesn't understand what he's done wrong, but hopes that the right words can win him favor.

BUSH: In all due respect, I’ve been saying it a lot. I understand how tough it is. And I’ve been telling the American people how tough it is.

Let's start off with the obvious: "tough" is not a synonym for "bad" (although it can be a synonym for "bad luck," as in a "tough break" -- but that's not how Bush is using the word.)

But regardless of that little bait-and-switch, Bush has not been saying "a lot" how tough/bad things are in Iraq. As recently as October, Bush said the U.S. was “absolutely” winning the Iraq war. Right before the election, Bush said Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was doing a "fantastic" job of managing the Iraq War.

The closest Bush has come since then to saying how "tough" things are in Iraq was when Bush responded to mass protests of him in Indonesia by saying, "That’s what happens when you make hard decisions.” Bush also used the "hard decisions" line during an October press conference.

"i thought about sitting on the floor in second grade

i couldn't keep the pace

i thought i was the only one moving in slow motion

while the other kids knew something i did not

but if i acted like a clown

i thought it'd get me through, it did

but that don't work no more

you're not a kid no more"

- from "Regrets"

Lyrics from "The Old Bastard" came to mind, too.

"Why do you say you know when you don't know. It's ok, if you don't know everything."

...that most nine-year olds in this country understand that it is immoral
to lie, murder and destroy the reputation and treasure of an entire nation.

Seriously. I don't know any nine-year old who would be defensive and arrogant
about creating such perverse, shameful destruction on so many people.

This kind of pathology comes from years and years of evolving into an unfeeling,
empathy-lacking sadist. It takes decades to create a serial miscreant like this.

Our pResident is far worse than any nine-year old---and that's a sad thought.

He's so shameful. It's emotionally overwhelming to think about it.

A sort of "don't bother me anymore" quality about his answers. Like we should just move on and forget how wrong he's been on just about every aspect of the war.

...it's pretty sick that he's dragging his feet on Iraq.

Junior says he's waiting for another report from the Pentagon. How
many more boards does this scuzzball need to be hit over the head with?

The American people spoke CLEARLY in the 06 elections. They want the
war to end. His daddy's political and military experts say that Iraq
is a disaster--in their formal report. Junior's swaggering--and saying
that he'll take all of this under consideration. He's needs to let
us all know that he calls the shots.

Junior is doing what my adorable girls do when I ask them to stand up and
they don't want to. They get a case of "noodle legs". They're small, so
I'll pick them up and say, "Let's go, time to put our mittens on". They
think it's funny to get "noodle legs"--so they're hanging in the air with
their legs dangling--so I can't stand them up.

It's funny when kindergartners do this--but not so much when the leader
of the free world does it.

Our pResident is letting us know that he'll 'stand up and put on his mittens'
when he's good and ready.

that comparison? Why is it that every time he balks or pulls a "funny" during a press conference, I immediately picture him as a schoolyard bully or cocky young man? Because he's a spoiled, privileged brat who has never grown up. Could that be the reason?

Isn't it a shame that the first thing that comes to mind to describe GW's antics is to compare him to a child?

I think he measures everything by how much effort he has to put into the task...how many vacations he has to pass up to put in that effort. Hard work for Bush must make a major impression, as he says it all the time. I imagine his trainers pointed out that he was saying "hard work" too many times and should change to something more masculine. How many times did he say "tough" yesterday? Sure seemed like quite a few. Remember! He's the "decider" and he has to make the "hard decisions...and it's tough...I understand."

George really needs to get a day job so he can get a feel for what the rest of the world is doing.

But think about how selfish that would be. "I know how tough it is," would then translate to "I know how hard my job is."

Whoop-de-doo.

I think he's embarrassed, shamed, and not smart enough to rise to the occasion of leadership. He let his neocon friends sell him on the theory of a Democratic Iraq, lied to the American people to build the argument for war, didn't plan properly at any stage of the game, pretended things were going well when they weren't, doctored information from Iraq to make things sound better than they are.

It's a lie, upon a lie, upon a lie, upon a lie. And now, he's paying the price.

that Bush refuses to talk to people he doesn't like, which is IMMATURE.

that's why the U.S. hasn't had any diplomatic relations with Iran, Syria, North Korea, etc.

Bush needs to be RIGHT. Nothing else matters to him. He knows that this is his LAST chance to do something right, so he refuses to believe that he has made any mistakes. If JUNIOR believes something is true, then it IS true and woe to the person who suggests otherwise. He is an embarrassment and dangerously delusional.

Something must be done. Maybe Poppy will have him committed 'for his own good'. This world cannot withstand another two years of Junior's psychosis.

and on the floor but he still thinks he is KING...dats beyond delusional...dats chronic INSANITY just under the facade of reason...