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Is Bush insane? (episode 37)

Bush holds an especially incoherent press conference

by Deb Riechmann, Associated Press
April 19, 2007

WASHINGTON -- Strange things sometimes come out of President Bush's mouth. "Polls just go poof." "Remember the rug?"

When Bush went to Ohio on Thursday to talk about terrorism, he ended up musing about marriage and chicken-plucking plants, the agony of death and his Oval Office rug, which resembles a sunburst.

About his legacy, Bush said historians are still assessing George Washington, the nation's first leader. "My attitude is, if they're still writing about (number) one, 43 doesn't need to worry about it."

  President Bush speaks at
  Tippecanoe High School
  gymnasium Thursday, April 19,
  2007 in Tipp City,...

AP photo

On being married: "A good marriage is really good after serving together in Washington, D.C."

Maybe the president just felt like jabbering at the town hall-style event in Tipp City, Ohio. He began talking about terrorism and ended 90 minutes later after chattering about everything from life after the White House to Vietnam War and the brutal Khmer Rouge regime.

Some highlights:

• "Politics comes and goes, but your principles don't. And everybody wants to be loved -- not everybody. ... You never heard anybody say, `I want to be despised, I'm running for office.'"

• "The best thing about my family is my wife. She is a great first lady. I know that sounds not very objective, but that's how

Commentary by Rebecca:

Whenever we see clips of President Bush on television, it's always startling how incoherent he seems to be. He gives the impression he's been sedated, or hasn't slept in 36 hours -- and that's in an ordinary press conference. But the media rarely mentions that the President seems perpetually stoned.

How remarkably "out of it" he must have been yesterday, compared to his ordinary "out of it" demeanor, for the media to finally mention it... He must've been bumping the ceiling.

Rebecca

I feel. And she's also patient. Putting up with me requires a lot of patience."

• "There are jobs Americans aren't doing. ... If you've got a chicken factory, a chicken-plucking factory, or whatever you call them, you know what I'm talking about."

• "There are some similarities, of course" between Iraq and Vietnam. "Death is terrible."

• "I've been in politics long enough to know that polls just go poof at times."

As he has before, Bush told the story about how his first presidential decision was to pick a rug for the Oval Office, a task he quickly cast to his wife. He told her to make sure the rug reflected optimism "because you can't make decisions unless you're optimistic that the decisions you make will lead to a better tomorrow."

Later, when he talked about his hope for succeeding in Iraq, Bush said, "Remember the rug?"

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in·sane adj.
1 : mentally dis-
ordered : exhibiting insanity

2 : used by, typical of, or intended for insane persons (an insane asylum)

3 : ABSURD (an insane scheme for making money)

—Merriam-Webster

in·san·i·ty n.
1 a : a deranged state of the mind usually occurring as a specific disorder (as schizophrenia) and usually excluding such states as mental retardation, psychoneurosis, and various character disorders

b : a mental disorder

2 : such unsoundness of mind or lack of understanding as prevents one from having the mental capacity required by law to enter into a particular relationship, status, or transaction or as removes one from criminal or civil responsibility

3 a : extreme folly or unreasonableness

b : something utterly foolish or unreasonable

—Merriam-Webster

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