Bush blinks "I’m not going to talk about the case," Bush finally says after The president was a blur of blinks, The fidgeting clearly corresponded to the questioning. When Lauer asked When the questioning turned to Miers, Bush blinked 37 times in a single Give Or maybe his new antipsychotic and mood elevating medication is Still, it is rather disconcerting to see the leader of the free from the Washington Post<\/a>\n <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In a number of interviews recontly, President Bush has seemed unusually ill at ease, licking his lips, shifting his weight, hesitating in his answers, and blinking, blinking, blinking… Bush blinks twice. He touches his tongue to his lips. He blinks … Continue reading ![](\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/Bustdance.jpg\")
In a number of interviews recontly, President Bush has
\n seemed unusually ill at ease, licking his lips, shifting his weight,
\n hesitating in his answers, and blinking, blinking, blinking…<\/em><\/p>\n
\n twice. He touches his tongue to his lips. He blinks twice more.
\n He starts
\n to
\n answer,
\n but
\n he
\n stops
\n himself.<\/p>\n
\n a three-second pause that, in television time, feels like a commercial
\n break.But this much could be seen watching the tape of NBC’s
\n broadcast during Bush’s 14-minute pre-sunrise interview, in which he
\n stood unprotected by the usual lectern. <\/p>\n
\n taps, jiggles, pivots and shifts. Bush has always been an active man,
\n but standing with Lauer and the serene, steady first lady, he had the
\n body language of a man wishing urgently to be elsewhere.<\/p>\n
\n if Bush, after a slow response to Katrina, was "trying to get a second
\n chance to make a good first impression," Bush blinked 24 times in
\n his answer. When asked why Gulf Coast residents would have to pay back
\n funds but Iraqis would not, Bush blinked 23 times and hitched his trousers
\n up by the belt.<\/p>\n
\n answer — along with a lick of the lips, three weight shifts and some serious
\n foot jiggling. Laura Bush, by contrast, delivered only three blinks and
\n stood still through her entire answer about encouraging volunteerism.<\/p>\n
\n the guy a break. Maybe he needed a potty break. As his
\n recent pathetic note to Condi asking for permission to piss shows, the
\n President may have bladder problems. Us older Americans can’t always
\n predict or postpone the call of nature, even under the bright lights
\n of public scrutiny.<\/em><\/p>\n
\n kicking in with some unfortunate side effects due to interactions
\n with his existing
\n drug regime. This
\n is not uncommon with aripiprazole and others of the newer neuroleptic
\n drugs,
\n and probably
\n means he just needs to have his dosage adjusted.<\/em><\/p>\n
\n world jerking around like Pinocchio with St. Vitas Dance. We had better
\n all
\n keep a close eye on Dubya for a while. And try not to blink…<\/em><\/p>\n