Is Bush suffering from presenile dementia? Is this the result of Alzheimer's Disease or is it the result of brain damage due to excessive drug and alcohol use? Your guess is as good as mine.
Or maybe there is genius behind the stupidity, as you saw earlier? (just to remind you of the previous video)
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He (it) is one of the lizard people:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reptilian_humanoid
Or maybe a Vogon? Inhumane lizards and bad speech...
It could be Adult Alcohol Syndrome Disorder.
I'll bet some doctor out there already has him diagnosed. Do you recall that someone diagnosed Reagan's Alzheimer's while he was still in the White House, but didn't announce anything until much later?
At various times I've heard suggestions of bipolar disorder, sociopathy, and "dry drunk syndrome".
I think he and Cheney are both sociopaths; they display all the symptoms.
Diagnosing someone without having examined them seems like junk medicine! Anyway I recall that when Reagan sat in the White House with Alzheimer's Disease the astrologers were running the country and many people thought they did a good job.
Perhaps it's time for the senate to replace him with Dick Cheney. Enjoy! :-)
I don't think the speech trainer can carry all the blame (maybe he's just capitalizing on what is already happening in order to boost his own business, but that's just a wild guess).
I have seen, also, the increasing "I don't understand what's going on" look in his eyes; the same look I saw in my mother's and my aunt's eyes as the Alzheimer's took hold.
Seems to me that George's stammering is the result of denying the truth. Over the years, George has had to hold several contradicting ideas in his head at once: WMDs exist, but they don't. Iraq is not in a civil war, but it is. Global warming isn't real, but it is. When you know the truth but you feel like lying is the better option, hesitation and stammering will result.
It would be interesting to see Bush in interviews then and now, where he could be more spontaneous. Whilst watching the first of the "old" speeches, I though he seemed slightly disconnected, and was wondering if he had just been well coached.
Whatever. Just enjoy the fun for the next two years, and then hopefully the US will elect some serious politicians.
Bob
Shorter answer to the related question: "What's right with Bush?"