Eyeball Rolling at the First Presidential Debate
By Mad Plato
My favorite eyeball rolling by President Bush in his first debate with John Kerry came when John Kerry suggested that the
Bush looked to the heavens when Kerry made this oil connection. At the moment that this eyeball rolling occurred, I thought, “Bush is letting us know with an overcompensation in his reaction that OIL WAS INDEED A (or THE) MOTIVE.”
Sometimes Bush was dazed by a question or had a temporary paralysis of speech from it. The wincing, lip-biting, smile-smirking, eyeball rolling commander-in-chief just isn’t equipped to speak coherently without a script or when he is put on the spot in front of an alien audience.
Because Bush is so accustomed to getting an audience that his handlers have approved, at moments during the debate he seemed to be a brain lost in the wilderness of outer space. It was scary. If he got upset he stammered out some of his old standby lines: “It’s hard work.” “We’re winning…” “We’re spreading freedom.” “I’m not a wind-up toy.”
Do wannabe dictators tend to repeat themselves a lot?
Is Bush as dumb as he looked?
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