Texas steel

[shunn]

The mere sound of Dubya's voice makes my skin crawl at the best of times: the petulance in it, the nervous laugh that always accompanies the dopey statements he thinks should be self-evident, the lack of any statesmanlike timbre whatsoever. Whenever he opens his mouth to address an audience, any audience, he sounds like a dull bully being called on the carpet and defending himself incompetently.

Hearing him yesterday on the news, though, I heard a chilling new steel in his voice. As he was chiding the House of Representatives for not rubber-stamping the Senate's wiretapping reauthorization bill, telling them they must do so immediately, I swear God it sounded like he was about to say, "That is why I have taken your congressmen hostage, and I will execute one representative every minute until this bill is passed. That gives you ... um, less than a week, heh heh, so let's hurry, people!"

Comments

[affinity8.livejournal.com]

I can't bear to look at him or listen to him. Skin crawling, indeed.

[nayad.livejournal.com]

I'm with you on that. I can't understand the people who think he seems like someone they'd like to know. :P

[laurel]

I've long been fascinated by his patterns of speech and demeanor. Well, okay, they're offputting and annoying; kaustin can't stand to listen to him for even a minute.

But I've been fascinated since I saw (or just listened to, I forget) footage of him years ago in a debate (pre-President, pre-campaign for the position) and he was actually a fairly good speaker then. Didn't have any of the tics he has now.

Which made me wonder if he's had some sort of brain injury (or *something*) since then or if this is all a put-on act. I know I'm not the first to wonder, I've seen the occasional article over the years about this.

[quixote317.livejournal.com]

I suspect his current way of speaking is not the result of an accident but is rather a deliberate affectation. He's courting a rather large chunk of the population that distrusts intellectualism.