What is the big deal about Bush's "swagger"?

[young_at_heart]

"Some folks look at me and see a certain swagger, which in Texas is called walking," Bush said at the Rep. Convention. Is he trying to relate to all the "macho" guys out there (or what)?

[boxster]

1. Yes.

That's exactly what he's trying to do. President John Wayne.

[Snotcicles]

2. Some folks

look at him and see a cob jam.

[MaryH]

7. How Tall is Bush? He always looks shorter than everyone.

Except for Putin. Who I think is pretty short.

[livetohike]

12. Bush is 5'11" n/t

[MissMarple]

14. No way.

He looks more like 5'9".

[mitchum]

24. He claims that, but we know what a liar he is

However, he is the world's tallest chimp (5'9")

[WLKjr]

38. that means he looks up to me and I look down on him

im 6'5, a gentle giant :)

[Sputnik]

52. Woo hooo! :)

Ain't nothin' wrong with 6ft5in. No, sir.

[TexasSissy]

45. That's what the PR says. That's bullsh*t. Laura's almost as tall as

he is. He wears lifts at debates and such. But dancing with his daughters, or sometimes standing next to Laura, you'll see he's not much taller than they are. And they are not all giants, are they? I mean, do you think Laura Bush is 5'8"? Or her daughters?

[Lisa]

51. that's what he says ...

But isn't it funny how his campaign literature and even his WH medical reports claim he is the magic 6' tall (just the right image to convey authority!).

Wonder if he's shrinking physically? He does seem a lot smaller than other people I know who are 5'11" or even 5'10".

[SharonAnn]

69. Part of it is that he has a small head. It makes him look even

shorter than he is. I would guess that he's 5'9", maybe 5'10" tops.

Funny thing is that Al Gore is not as tall as he seems on TV. I'm 5'10" and he's not much taller than I am. But on TV he seems to be about 6'2" or more.

[JCMach1]

78. And Edwards is a tiny little guy... thin and not so tall

of course I am 6'1

[Snotcicles]

8. Or self inflicked

wedgie

[tibbiit]

27. Cob Jam-- Yah, I See too!

I love watching him walk!!! Some of my best LOL moments in the few ugly years. To my visual perception he is the anti-thesis of macho-texas/cowboy swagger. He is laughable/sickening.
tib

[LisaLynne]

3. He walks like his underwear shrank.

[BurtWorm]

22. That is exactly what he looks like!

Thank you for putting words on it! :toast:

Now help me get that image out of my head. :wtf:

[TahitiNut]

61. He walks like the victim of 20,000 wedgies.

:evilgrin:

[SharonAnn]

70. He walks like a weight lifter, a "fitness" buff.

I know a couple guys who are really into "fitness" (or as a friend of mine describes them - they're "body nazis") and they walk like that.

[grannylib]

4. I think it's the arrogance born of years of getting his way with no work,

no hassle, no worries -
now that the right-wing, corporate-owned media whores are all in the ReThuglicans' pockets, he feels he is invincible.
Insufferable little pusbag.

[nickgutierrez]

5. "...which in Texas is called walking..."

and may be because of those socks Uncle Karl stuffed down my pants when I wore that flight suit.

[mark11727]

13. Tha' socks are s'pose to go in the FRONT, big fella.

Preznit Poopypants.

[Vickers]

6. Have you ever seen Shrek? Think...Lord Farquaad

:P

[alittlelark]

74. ROFLMAO!!!

[TriMetFan]

9. His "swagger" is so fake.

He is no real Texan. He and his family have given my home state a bad name. I hope the man burns in Hell.

[TheDonkey]

10. no one really makes a deal about his swagger. he's an idiot

trying to make a joke about something that many people don't even care about. It's an insult which really isn't an insult, makes him seem more macho.

Maybe if he would joke about his incompetance, going AWOL, his cocaine use, his lies, WMD, and his phoneyness then that would be something.

[DBtv]

11. We actually see a certain unfounded arrogance

and repulsive bourgeois sense of entitlement.

In Texas, we really call it "being an asshole!"

[knowbody0]

20. swagger

this stance of his you see in little kids playing cowboy ready to reach for guns. he hitches his pants up and centers his belt buckle right after he beats his wife. any one notice the white knuckled grip he held her with at the 911 silent ceremony. looks weary and bleary eyed to me, and she really looks comatose and controlled. sigh. if that is the other 50% we share our country with there is no hope of enlightenment.

[KansDem]

15. Yeah, voters will vote for Bush because of the way he walks...

Bush seemed to score highest among the Missouri voters when he was most personal. His self-deprecating comments about butchering the English language and walking with a Texas swagger drew laughter and knowing nods. That section of the speech was the easiest to listen to, they said, and it spoke to some of their worries about him.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60447-2004Sep3.html

At least in Missouri they will.

Wouldn't you vote for a candidate because you like his walk? (Oh, and how that candidate makes fun of himself?)

[riverwalker]

16. how to walk like dubya

To get the macho look of a Kevlar undershirt to make your arms stick out at the sides like dubya: Wrap six layers of aluminum foil around your trunk up the armpits. Secure tightly with several rolls of duct tape.
To get that manly bowlegged swagger without ever riding a horse: Soak the bottom in a sitz bath for several days in a mixture of poison ivy elixer and Compound W Wart remover.

[VOX]

33. Ouch!!!!

There's not enough calamine lotion in a world of Wal-marts to reverse your Rx, riverwalker!

Well done! :toast:

[Texasgal]

17. I hate how he "uses" Texas

for his gain.... That BASTARD is NOT FROM TEXAS!!

[DBtv]

40. Conneticut carpetbagger!

I don't wish him on New Haven, however. Perhaps the island of Elba is vacant.

[Justitia]

71. All Hat, No Cattle!!! Makes the rest of us look bad..... -eom

[meti57b]

18. his Kevlar underwear is probably itchy

[louis-t]

19. The political cartoonists have even picked up on

his phony swagger. They have been showing him lately with his arms bowed out and his head sunk into his neck. He thinks it makes him look tough. It makes him look constipated. Big, tough guy with the same 2 blue shirts, sleeves rolled up like he's fixin' to go cut some brush. I am so frustrated that half the country would fall for his phony bullshit.

[Zorra]

21. When a guy "swaggers" it means that he is insecure and lacks confidence

in himself.

Secure, confident men don't need to "swagger" in order to try to impress people. They don't need to do anything to impress people.

People simply naturally recognize and respect a secure, confident man.

Poor Bu$h. He is not even consciously aware of his inferiority complex.

[grasswire]

23. I think the word is "compensation"

He's compensating for the years when his parents favored Jeb, and compensating for the fact that his daddy was so much more accomplished and George W. was such a failure.

[mitchum]

25. Little boy playing out his Oedipal issues with Poppy

Chimpy, why in the hell would you want to fuck her???!!!

[Judi Lynn]

26. You notice that at times, he walks very quickly, very briskly

taking tiny steps! Holding his short arms out from his short body.

Very odd man, to say the least. "Swagger" never really has come to mind when I've seen any film of him walking. He has short arms and legs. He has too much tension in his muscles. He's wired. Not much self control.

He's "uncool."

[MisterP]

37. I think he either trots mincingly or swings his arms like Sasquatch video

[sendero]

47. Yeah...

... in bodybuilding circles, that "arms out" look (on someone not really that developed) is called "invisible lat syndrome". He has a bad case of ILS for sure.

[greekspeak]

28. It makes him, and by extention as the U,S., look like a

vainglorious, cocky, self important, fat-cat, entitled, set for life, go fuck yourself bunch of self-appointed Marshall Dillons. He has that grating fake accent, that fake walk, and I think he has convinced himself that he is some sort of great big old stud. Unfortunately, he is flat-damned wrong.

[young_at_heart]

29. It was in his speech and sounded like bragging

That is what I find so unbelievable. He thinks it's cool, I guess.

[PsN2Wind]

30. "Swagger"

Is how he walks when the Secret Service is looking at (and after) his ass.

[Cat Atomic]

31. The "swagger" refers to his arrogance, not his stride.

And everyone knows it.

I don't give a shit about the way he walks. I am bothered by a president who refers to dead people by leaning forward on the podium, smirking, and saying, "let's just say they won't be a problem anymore".

It's crude, it's unpresidential, it's unprofessional, and it's embarrassing. If Bush and his supporters don't understand that, they're even more stupid than I thought.

[grannylib]

58. That is it exactly. It's a swagger confined to his shoulders. He reminds

me of nothing quite so much as the cocky second-grader (the one that always made you cringe when he opened his mouth, 'cos he was just a smart-alec trouble-maker) who managed to memorize his lines for the class play or something, and delivered them without fucking them up totally.
He's just got this juvenile, schoolyard bully kind of attitude, but one that tells you the only thing he's got to back it up is the silver spoon up his ass.

[VOX]

32. The swagger, the accent, the closed-eyed-pursed-lips public praying...

the crocodile tears that well up when dead troops are mentioned, the in-costume "flight-deck prance," the various other macho-drag dress-up opportunities, the pseudo tough-cowboy "wanted dead or alive" crap, the brush-clearing photo ops, -- it's all a package and it's 100% FAKE.

Everything about this guy is all on the surface -- he's about as deep as a bundt pan. He simply does what Karl tells him to at home, and what Dick tells him to do abroad.

[mitchum]

41. LOL!!!! "He's about as deep as a bundt pan"

Very nice, rezmutt :)

Your post is also a spot on analysis of the fraud

[MisterP]

34. remember Kramer's tight pants?

will Chimpy be mistaken for Frankenstein's monster clumping around stiffly at night?!

[Doctor_J]

35. it looks like a prance to me

like Liberace would have walked when he wasn't on stage.

[neuvocat]

36. Maybe its called a "swagger" at Crawford

but everywhere else its known as crotch rot.

[merh]

39. He is a true cowboy (NOT)

Only time he has ever been photographed on a horse.

<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/images/campaign2000/bush/child/child2>

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/images/campaign2000/bush/bush_photo2.htm

What a john wayne!
(Guess the pony threw him and now he hates horses)

[HalfManHalfBiscuit]

42. He is wearing Pickles' panties

Makes him all tingly and swaggerly.

[Mandate My Ass]

43. Anybody who swaggers so exaggeratedly is hopelessly insecure

about his masculinity. Anybody who calls verbal attention to his own faux-macho posturing is, to put it delicately, overcompensating for his *ahem* shortcomings.

[TexasSissy]

44. I think it's called jock itch.

[TexasSissy]

46. You have to stand w/your legs apart when you wear a codpiece, I think.

[UdoKier]

48. I don't see any swagger.

He just walks normally when he isn't tripping over a dandelion.

[Pepperbelly]

49. actually, he walks like he's high. Anyone else notice this? nt

[atommom]

50. It's just another lame attempt to look like a "regular guy" who's being

unfairly hounded by that damned liberal elite media of ours, criticized for his "authenticity" and his down-home toughness. Unfortunately, that kind of BS still plays well with the average American voter. :wtf:

[Mr_Spock]

53. 'Cause so many Repukes I know are latent homosexuals.

Why do you think they feel so threatened by them. Exactly!!

I've noticed this for years - it's kind of funny actually.

[Piperay]

54. I read somewhere he was

trying to copy Reagan's walk when Ronnie was Prez, ROTFLMAO. I don't think chimp has mastered it. Bwahahahaha :freak:

[Sputnik]

55. John Wayne was a swaggering, phony cowboy too

But at least he could ride a Cheneying horse.


(No offense to Marion Morrison fans out there, but I never liked his movies much and it pissed me off when I found out that he lied about Gary Cooper's performance in "High Noon.")

[Tactical Progressive]

57. He didn't like horses at all. n/t

[UpsideDownFlag]

66. whoa, whoa. john wayne was the man.

no dissing of McClintock.

[Sputnik]

67. I'll take Will Kane

in "High Noon." Scared out of his wits, but he stands up to the thugs on his own and does the right thing even though none of his "friends" help him.

But, I'll admit that I do like "The Quiet Man" with John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara. I just didn't care for Wayne's westerns.

Am I (gulp) un-American? :O

;)

:D

[UpsideDownFlag]

68. i'm afraid you are indeed un-american.

lol.

john wayne's westerns are the standards by which others are judged. (except for clint eastwoods. they're a class to themselves).

[Sputnik]

76. Heck, I've been called worse :D

And I do prefer Clint Eastwood's flicks, yessirreedeebob. I love me some spaghetti westerns.

(Where's the eerie whistling sound coming from?)

[Tactical Progressive]

56. "Some folks listen to me and hear nothing but lies"

"which in the Republican party is called facts."

[grannylib]

59. *lololol* you said it! What is it with the Freeper crowd? What chemical

imbalance, or lack of soul, makes them think wrong is right, black is white, and lies are truth??? What the fuck is their major malfunction??

[Tactical Progressive]

62. Your tag line sounds like

part of the Dr. Seuss children's reader on this administration.

You should get someone to illustrate it. A short children's book for the 'undecided' voter. Nobody's been able to figure out where their mind is. Maybe Dr. Seuss would be their epiphany.

[grannylib]

64. I am working on making into an illustrated book; trying to finish it quick

and find a publisher. Just a little book, like about the size of the "Blue Day Book."
It wasn't meant to sound so "Seussian" and not all of it does, but I'm flattered *lol*

[porphyrian]

60. He's a New England fratboy poser.

If he were from Texas, it would be a swagger. What he has is hemorrhoids. Large, uncomfortable, bleeding hemorrhoids. I hope so, anyway.

[SayitAintSo]

63. Walks like he's 'prairie doggin' ...... n/t

[UpsideDownFlag]

65. it's called 'walking' in texas?

all hat, no cattle.

[Justitia]

72. "Shrub is as useless as tits on a bull", says this Texan -eom

[realFedUp]

73. I thought it was chafing

or hemorrhoids.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

75. I tend to swagger to

After I've had too much to drink.

[Geo55]

77. Yeah , but can anybody say they saw him chewing gum , also ?