I am watching Bush right now talk about the subprime mess, and he looks terrible. His face is flushed and mottled, and there is a Nixonian sweat over his upper lip, and he just looks terrible. He also sounds like he is slightly congested and has an upper respiratory infection.
Although he probably just has the flu, it really is amazing how much the Presidency ages a man.
Jamey
Bush is on the sauce. Bet on it.
Jen
Since I don’t have anything to add to that and evidently can’t shut up today, I give you all the groaner of the day.
Walker
Maybe an advisor told him the truth about how bad this is. I doubt it, though.
Grand Moff Texan
He’s sweating bourbon. Last night, they turned the Democratic debate into a drinking game.
You have to pound one every time they don’t sound as dumb as Bush. When they don’t sound as dumb as a Bush supporter, you have to pound one through a bourbon-bong while standing on your head.
It was a very long night.
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Zifnab
The right-wing blogosphere is finally lining up behind him, so that’s how you know he’s really done for.
If you can’t stand the heat… please leave. Please.
binzinerator
Dubya has had a Nixonian sweat over his upper lip since Bush v. Gore, but it took a number of years before most people could finally see it. Some still are unable.
Caidence (fmr. Chris)
Yeah, but coke does that too. And I think it’s the coke.
This
manprimatetroglodyte hasn’t done shit.John S.
Especially when you have Lord
VoldemortCheney feeding off your life force.Caidence (fmr. Chris)
Then you need to get away from me. I radiate Stupid-Blatherino particles. Seek medical attention.
ThymeZone
As much as I detest and hate the man and everything he stands for ….. I hope he stays well for another year.
Because ….. does it really need saying?
Cheney.
Librarian
The presidency ages every president, but this particular presidency has also aged the rest of the country. Or at least also driven it to drink.
Dennis - SGMM
“His face is flushed and mottled, and there is
a Nixonianflop sweat over his upper lip, and he just looks terrible.”Just a suggestion.
DougJ
I think there’s something seriously wrong with him, mentally or neurologically. I never thought this before, but I’ve come to believe it over the past few weeks.
Raenelle
Presidency, schmesidency. Whatever it is that is making him look (and I hope feel) terrible, I choose to believe that it proves that there really is a balance in the universe that preserves justice.
PFrets
Only now? Hell…I thought this over the last few years. Takes an alcoholic to know an alcoholic, dry or not, and Bush is as dry-drunk as they get.
The Other Steve
I’m sure he’s simply panicking cause he doesn’t know what the hell is going on.
Caidence (fmr. Chris)
Weeks? Where have you been dude? Do you live on the outskirts of a mental institution? Do paranoid schizophrenics make up more than half your dance card?
This guy is barely functional, and hasn’t been since 2002 when he was trying to convince people that Iraq was run by Al Qaeda.
and the sad truth: it worked on a bunch of people.
Grand Moff Texan
I’m sure he’s simply panicking cause he doesn’t know what the hell is going on.
He’s panicking because he knows he’s going to be remembered as “that stupid pussy who pissed away our hegemony” and there’s not another 9/11 to make him meaningful again.
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Caidence (fmr. Chris)
Ahh… I see. He’s withdrawing from the PCP. He’s noticed the presence of gravity and that progress in Iraq has become extremely difficult.
And now things aren’t fun anymore.
Well, now he can bang Lohan in rehab.
PFrets
Candidate for Quote of the Day.
Caidence (fmr. Chris)
Democrats would NEVER use that word. What a horrible word! “Pussy”.
We prefer to call him “the Special and Mentally Courageous President with Mild Disabilities”. Not that there’s anything WRONG with Special and Mentally Courageous Adults with Mild Disabilities assuming the offices of the President. Everyone should be allowed access!
We’re sure Honorable Mr. Bush will understand the effects of his troubled (but courageous!) presidency in due time.
He’s such a precious flower!
Dennis - SGMM
ZOMG! This means that not even Condi can re-inflate him!
The Other Steve
Could Bush have been American’s first Mentally Disabled President?
Blue Jean
Poor baby. If he didn’t like all this terrible, terrible pressure, he should have called off his dogs, graciously conceded to Gore and drunk the rest of his life away on his “ranch”. He would have been better off, and so would we all.
He’s the picture of health compared to the rest of the country after seven years of him.
Caidence (fmr. Chris)
“Could”?
After you answer that, could you answer something that’s been bugging me: How many seconds are there in a minute? is it 80? or 90? I’m never sure about this.
Bush is literally disabled. Tolstoy Syndrome. I swear its a form of psychosis.
To live in an informational reality that only you control? Full-on solipsism? Yeah, he’s disabled.
scarshapedstar
That jackass hasn’t made a single decision in his life. He signs whatever Cheney puts in front of him and reads off a script. We might as well be paying a puppet $400,000 a year, or a horse, like in the decadent Roman times.
And he has no idea what has become of this farce. He thinks maybe ten Iraqis are dead. One million, one schmillion.
Caidence (fmr. Chris)
He couldn’t. None of the cool CEO people he met wanted to be friends with him because he had mishaps with all the companies he ran for them. There were these confusing issues like “profit” and “revenue” and “expenditure”.
Profit would be up, and then it would go down… but expenditure would go up… so doesn’t that balance out? It makes perfect sense to me… but all his friends got mad for some reason; started shouting silly terms like “risk” and “board meeting” and “bankruptcy” at him. Confusing stuff.
Very good. I like that.
The Disgruntled Chemist
I think it works better that way.
T. Scheisskopf
Well, FWIW, Helen Thomas said, quite a number of years ago(Around the pretzel incident time, methinks…) that the word in The Village was that he was back to taking the waters.
Then again, long years of he-man, two-fisted drinking can cause brain damage from chronic depletion of vitamin B6, a condition we all know and love as “wet brain”. Once you got it, there really isn’t a cure.
Back to the pretzel incident: In looking at the wounds sustained he sustained by his “fall”, then bouncing what I saw off of my long years of study in the arts and sciences of applied interpersonal mayhem(Okinawan), I immediately came to the opinion that said wounds were far more consistant with someone drilling him like a bad tooth with a right cross. Which makes sense if he was pissed as a newt and terminally obnoxious.
Damned at Random
I’ve been hearing for years that Bush was a different man running for Texas gov- well briefed, logical, syntactically coherent. I suspect he is in some sore of mental decline due to all the coke and alcohol he did and/or does. The other altrnative is early onset dementia. HAs he mentioned how he liberated Hitler’s death camps lately?
LiberalTarian
Arsenic. In his water. Someone should check.
That’s how they got rid of Napoleon.
binzinerator
It must have taken a stupendous, almost superhuman effort to hold reality at bay for as long as he has. That’s got to take its toll eventually.
Maybe his congnitive dissonance become so great his defense mechanisms are finally failing, shutting down like a diseased liver after years of hard drinking.
For his entire Presidency he was an alky to his own Kool-Aid, and we may be witnessing the physical effects of his addiction. The disease of his mind is finally affecting his body.
Sensitive Pony Tailed Girly Man
Imagine how much older he’d look if he was actually doing his job. No matter, I’m sure there are folks out there watching today and thinking “My, what a dignified looking Man, our Leader. I could have a Beer with that Man”.
Geoduck
More accurately, he signs whatever gets put in front of him. Uusually it is Cheney handing him the paper and pen, but sometimes Rice or someone manages to penetrate the bubble.
ThymeZone
Go with the Faith Based answer.
If the earth is 6000 years old, then there are ….. twelve quatrillion seconds in a minute, I think.
Well, wait. Isn’t there an answer in the Bible?
Caidence (fmr. Chris)
Is that like the Feith Based answer? 6 “Months” in one “War”?
Helena Montana
I would rephrase that to say it really is amazing how much arrogance and evil ages a man.
KC45s
Think how bad he’d look if he actually worked.
The Other Steve
Good point. Most Presidents stay up past 8pm if there is a major crisis. This one goes to bed because he doesn’t give a shit.
Jake
He’s in a snit because he realizes LegacyQuest is about to grind to a crunching, shuddering, squealing, dead-burnt-bodies-strewn-across-the-road halt.
Fuck the presidency. I want to see how much life in prison ages that smirking bastard.
David Yaseen
It’s amazing how much 7 years ages a man, especially if he’s in his 50s in year 0
joel hanes
Second, at least.
Ronald Wilson Reagan often asked his wife for policy advice.
So she called her astrologer in California, and told
Ronnie what to think. True fact.
binzinerator
Bourbon. Imbibed like water. Someone should check.
That’s how he got rid of reality.
mark
That’s rich considering this moron spent the last 7 years riding his bike and playing video games.
Cybershaman
At one point, several years ago, I was amazed by how the presidency HADN’T aged him one bit. I assumed it was because he had never actually had any real responsibilities besides continuing his cheerleading career.
He has only started to look like some toll has been taken in the past year. Frankly, it makes me feel better.
gypsy howell
Saying he’s been aged by the pressures of the presidency would imply that A) he has some understanding that he is going down in history as the president who most fucked up this country and B) that he cares.
More likely he’s been binge drinking and snorting lines of coke bigger than Lincoln’s split rails, and Laura’s been smacking him around after he’s passed out. Hell, I wouldn’t be surprised if she’s been snubbing out Kools on his ass.
maxbaer (not the original)
Thanks, John, I went over to MSN and watched the clip. Damn we’re lucky to have an MBA president in these tough economic times. It does look like all the hard work and long hours have taken a toll, tho.
Glad to see you’ve recovered and are blogging up a storm.
NonyNony
Dry? Are you sure?
Chris Johnson
Guys, has anyone heard anything about the third middle east internet cable being cut? I hear there were two cut in Egypt and now a third one has ‘accidentally’ been cut, by a ship anchor or something, meaning this:
Iran is off the internet as of now.
What the hell is up NOW? This is just retarded enough to suggest shenanigans.
heywood jablomy
Hey, the guy is a world-class dipshit and more criminal that Nixon ever dreamed of being. If the guy ever sets foot in Europe they will arrest him and take him to the Hague. But it’s no joke if he’s boozing again. He was pretty profound about addiction this week — i hate seeing a guy go off the program no matter how loathesome he is.
Given the reeling economy, Bush Deux might well surpass Hoover AND Buchanan as worst president ever. Eight years of our lives to this monumental asswipe. I need a drink.
Chris Johnson
That could explain Bush looking unusually bad. He doesn’t react well when major black ops are underway. Someone get the man ‘my pet goat’, stat!
Darkness
Why start now?
Huh, for other reasons, despite being a vitamin-disbelieving person, I started taking modest (very modest) doses of b6 and b12 a year ago and feel just a helluva lot better. Like 20 years younger, honestly. Memorizing phone numbers the first time I hear them like the old days. Stuff like that. You make me wonder if I DO drink to much. Damn, don’t make me wonder that. I’d have to find a hobby or some stupid shit if that were true.
Punchy
Bush aged in 7 years? John, look at this nation. We’ve aged about 20….
joel hanes
Ageing in itself is sad.
Ageing without ever becoming an adult is simply pitiful.
And I do pity poor W, catapaulted by Daddy’s Friends into a job and a challenge for which his own meagre inventory of strengths is completely inadequate.
If it were a drama about some historic time, and if the playwright were good, it might be made out to have some of the grace of tragedy. As it is, the tragedy happens in everyone else’s life.
grumpy realist
This ain’t King Lear, unfortunately. Bush’s Presidency is more like something on the Jerry Springer Show.
GuyFromOhio
Although he probably just has the flu, it really is amazing how much the Presidency ages a man.
Perhaps after seven years of debauchery, his portrait is nearly complete.
Asti
Ummm, yes, there is,
@nd Peter 3:8 says “A day is as a thousand years”, so if you break that up into seconds, I think your answer is about right.
Asti
2nd Peter 3:8, I can’t type today.
ThymeZone
I am conforted to know that the answer was in the Bible the whole time …..
Thank you for that good information!
Malixe
In light of his complete corruption of the office and the country, if the job had aged him as much as it should have, he’d have died six years ago.
Hedley Lamarr
Funny you should point out his appearance. Some time ago one of his nicknames was “Blotchy”, in addition to aWol (my fav), chimperor, and so on. I always wondered when his blotchiness would reappear.