Bush-Watchers Wonder How He Copes With Stress

[babylonsister]

December 26th, 2006 4:14 pm
Bush-Watchers Wonder How He Copes With Stress

By Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times

WASHINGTON, Dec. 24 — President Bush marched into his year-end news conference last week with the usual zip in his step. As always, he professed little worry about his legacy or the polls. As always, he said the United States would win in Iraq. The nation might despair, but not Mr. Bush; his presidential armor seemed firmly intact.

Yet a longtime friend of Mr. Bush’s recently spotted a tiny crack in that armor. “He looked tired, for the first time, which I hadn’t seen before,” this friend said.

Mr. Bush has never been one for introspection, in public or in private. But the questions of how the president is coping, and whether his public pronouncements match what he feels as he searches for a new strategy in Iraq, have been much on the minds of Bush-watchers these days.

Can the president really believe, as he said on Wednesday, that “victory in Iraq is achievable,” when a bipartisan commission led by his own father’s secretary of state calls the situation there “grave and deteriorating?” Is he truly content to ignore public opinion and let “the long march of history,” as he calls it, pass judgment on him after he is gone? Does he lie awake at night, as President Lyndon B. Johnson did during the Vietnam War, fretting over his decisions?

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[hatrack]

1. I have a simple answer to this rhetorical question - in fact, it's non-verbal!

[Monkeyman]

5. Add and OZ of coke you got how he copes

[Joanne98]

2. Karma is a bitch...........

[TomInTib]

3. Ms Stolberg is the new E Bumiller

I read her articles several times a week and it seems as though her mission is to polish the Turd in the White House.

She just manages to keep from appearing as treacly as Bumiller.

[The Count]

4. I get "crack", but what "armor" is she blabbing about? Some drug paraphernalia

they use in the White House?

[Mind_your_head]

6. After actually reading the article, I believe we would do * an enormous

favor (not that he deserves one) by relieving him of his "stressful duties/responsibilities". He's so far down the rabbit hole in his own mind ~ he'll never resign (that would be acknowledging defeat/being in over his head) and his ego is more important to him than the fate of the country or the personal fate of thousands of individuals.

Impeachment & removal from office would do EVERYONE, including Mr. bush an enormous service/benefit.

[ProSense]

7. Is he stressed because:

1) He is responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of people?
2) Only a small group of delusional individuals still support his evil butt?

[The Count]

8. Let's try another set of options:

1. Liquor is under key
2. Poppy is mixing in his business
3. he has to pretend to be nice to democrats
4. Pickles didn't swipe the porch
5. he has to pretend to think again
6 Damn media got uppity again

[LearnedHand]

9. The psychopath doesn't have to deal with stress...

... because he's NOT stressed. He has said several times that he sleeps well at night. He absolutely believes he's always 100% right, so how could he possibly feel stress? :sarcasm:

He's truly, truly a psychopath. No sense of how great a disaster asswipe he is to most Americans and the entire rest of the world.

[Fire Walk With Me]

10. What's so stressful about making all that money for yourself and your friends?

Oh yeah, making sure it keeps flowing. "Stay the course!"

Is it freedom yet?