Bush's achillies heel - EGO

[Mizmoon]

That's why he looked so damn pissed. HE can't take being questioned at all. We've all heard the tales of how nasty he is to everyone in the WHite House, wandering around like the Boy King, demanding to be practically worshiped.

He can't take anything he perceives as a slight - and everything that isn't kissing his ass is a slight. He was sort of like this before, but having his ass kissed the last four years has convinced him he has divine rights or something.

I don't think he can control it. I don't think all the coaching in the world can stop it. Bush will be taken down by his own big, fat ego.

[Southsideirish]

1. Excellent observation - he is as thin skinned as they come - needle

him constantly! He is used to being fawned over - treat him like dirt - no respect - no deference at all.

[Kierkegaard]

2. This is what I find so hard to fathom.

If he's such a vile piece of orangutan excrement, why would anyone lift a finger to help get him another term?

[The_Casual_Observer]

3. "Now watch this drive!"

Somebody ought to direct his attention to DU some time.

[merbex]

4. BINGO!!

You nailed it

[bigpathpaul]

5. The boy thought he was a shoe-in.

He's been so accustomed to the free ride he's had for his whole life, I don't think it ever occurred to him it could come to an end. He's been spoon-fed by Rove, coddled by the media, and all without ever having to face the obvious fact that he is now and always has been a failure.

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[Walt Starr]

6. That's why I figured Kerry got the ball rolling right away

Kerry walks up while Bush is doing his "hold up short so your opponent bows to you" bullshit, he keeps moving, putting his arm on *'s back, smiling, then whispering into his ear, "You're in for the pounding of your life you arrogant prick!"

[Digit]

7. Yeah, didn't he go through this thing with reporters...

making sure they addressed him as PRESIDENT *?

[bigpathpaul]

8. He's also in the most vulnerable position he may have ever been in...

... and it's largely unscripted. Each time he tries to force one of his canned lines into a debate question, he sounds less and less convincing. People should be reminded he's held (I think) fewer press conferences than any other modern president and that he couldn't be trusted to face the 9/11 commisssion with Uncle Dick.

If he hadn't sent 1,060 Americans to their death in Iraq and caused massive social damage, he'd be laughable, but I think he needs to held accountable and without Rove and the press shoring him up, he will go to pieces. I really think the pressure is affecting him.

It just occurred to me we could end up with a psychotic lame-duck. OMG!

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[MatrixEscape]

9. Good estimation there!

Yet, I can't help seeing Bush as one, big Achilles' heel. The heel is a a small but mortal weakness. Bush seems to reek with weaknesses.

So much so, that I think a new phrase based on him could work its way into the cultural mindset. As in, this looks like his Bush's Oz, (or Bush's Brain).

Meaning: The person appears completely invulnerable but is so riddled with faults and weaknesses that pulling back the facade would crush him totally. Sort of a modern play on the Emperor has no clothes.

[knowbody0]

11. just mention that daddy bush had wisdom

just mention daddy. baby gets real blotchy

[Malva Zebrina]

10. At one point he realized that he was not the real president

I think he really believed that he was going to be a president then found out that he was really a sock puppet. Therefore he had to act more and more the bully--He was the one to declare war--He was the "war president"

He had to constantly rely on staged photo ops to reassure himself that he was a real president and it was encouraged by those behind the scenes who were playing him and knew what his little pea brain would run with. They manipulated the little stupid boy trying to be a man.

It is quite obvious now, that he is quite stupid.

The secret is out.

He is below the average in intelligence. He is a miserable failure because all he has done in his life, was to try to convince others of his "intelligence" when they were all probably laughing at him behind his back.

I think that somewhere in the depths of his consciousness he knows this and that causes him to adopt the tough guy, macho man, mano mano man personna. He is desperately trying to establish himself as legitimate , when it is only a repeat of what his life has been up to now, of others doing the work for him because he is too stupid to do it himself. He got where he is, not on his merits,or "hard work" but on his name. That is the whole story of his miserable life.

He is simply too stupid for the task--any task at hand.

It is too bad that he caused thousands of people to die. That will not register on his conscience, however. He probably thinks that someone else will bail him out of it. Or that he can blame it on someone else. Meetings with him must make the other participants laugh their heads off in private.

I think he knows this.

[havocmom]

12. If we could manage a lot of Barb look-alikes for the front row

of spectators, we could really watch him melt down into the hostile, infantile jerk he is.

Anybody have a lot of pearls?

[salinen]

13. Kerry should turn his head

toward *, away from the cameras, and scratch his head while using his middle finger.

[belle]

14. Just finished replying to another thread saying almost the same thing...

He can't control it, I agree. And neither can Rove. You're right--not all the coaching in the world. You can't make him someone he's not. All they can do, and all they ever *have* done, is try to razzle-dazzle us with the shoddiest of manipulations. And it worked, because people couldn't or wouldn't bother to look that closely. But now he's on the hot seat for 90 minutes, with all the weight of his "accomplishments" on him--and an opponent whose trial lawyer background is really, really working for him. There is nowhere for him to hide. All he can really do is go back into attack mode; that may or may not work for him this time.