What's the deal with shrubya EEE-NUN-CEE-ATE-ing all his words like a

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

first grader with every speech now? Is this a new trick from Rove to get everyone to love him? Are there sublimininal messages in all those syllables?
:shrug:

[newsguyatl]

1. i noticed today for the first time he started saying

al kie-AEda instead of his usual al kAHda. ((for al qaeda))

i thought, too, that it was probably intentional. perhaps they're trying their best to make the poor bastard look somewhat literate.

they have quite a job ahead of them though.

[jjmalonejr]

17. He still pronounces NU-CLEE-AR as NUKE-U-LER

That's the one that REALLY annoys me.

[parasim]

2. Yeah, I noticed that too...

It's like when somebody who's drunk trying to pretend they're not drunk.

[LunaC]

15. That was my "take" too!

I noticed today an obvious slur so I was listening for more but he went into Robo-Speak after he had caught himself sliding towards the edge.

[mtnester]

3. Don't worry, if you get him riled up

he will start butchering the language again right quick. You can take the boy out of the country, but... you know the rest

[htuttle]

14. But what? "You can't take Andover out of the boy?"

Bush went to prep school and then Ivy League colleges! He's got no folksy excuse -- he was born in Connecticut!

I think he butchers the language due to pharmaceutical and alcohol-related brain damage. If you look at tapes of him from his father's campaigns, his speech patterns seemed a lot more lucid back then.

[Zen]

4. Hey, he's making progress at his "school for the mentally challenged"

You shouldn't make fun of slow people.

[drthais]

5. I've noticed this too, especially

his articulation of the article 'a'

like...'a' dog and 'a' cat...or rather...'a' pet goat

[stellanoir]

9. yeah me too

when he started up that marriage was between "Aye man and Aye woman. . .", it bugged me out and I'm not even gay. Imagine how childish and idiotic it would have sounded to anyone of that persuasion.

[truth2power]

24. I mentioned that here some time ago.

Drives me nuts. It's like someone in Kindergarten learning to read. Normal adults say "uh dog. Uh cat." etc.

[calico1]

6. Maybe they got him a

Hooked on Phonics set. He looks just as stupid to me.

[PA Democrat]

7. He says them slowly and CLEARLY

so everyone can be impressed that he used a big word and didn't screw it up.

[LittleApple81]

8. "I'm a little bit dumb, and so is he, so I can relate to him and that's

why I LOVE him!"

Actual quote from a Bush* fan!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=1976418

[Hoping4Change]

18. Someone should inform Toots that she's not just a little bit dumb.

[mctrotter5]

10. He gives the feeling that he doing some kind of a scolding lecture,

not far from the sound of fingernails on a blackboard.

[Malva Zebrina]

11. yeah and thus really annoys me and he does it over and over

he pronounces "a" as a long a instead of the correct short a. I am not sure how to post it but it is not the usual prunouciation of "a" but comes out everytime as "a" with the long dash over it.

It sounds to me like a recitation in a classroom of an unfortunate, ill read, rather dull witted student , who traces words, as he reads, on the book with his index finger, and is not really understanding or comprehending what the text is saying and so everytime he comes to the "a" he says it with the long vowel signature--instead of "uh" he says "Ay".

and it sounds really backward and stupid.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

23. Just occurred to me--reminds me of the movie "Charly" (from the novel

"Flowers for Algernon" where Cliff Robertson plays the retarded guy who becomes a genius as a result of a science experiment, but the brilliance slips away from him at the end leaving him as he began. Watching shrubya's old film in F9/11 and seeing him now gives such an impression.

[leftofthedial]

12. hey! quit picking on him

or he'll smoke you out

dead or alive

for hating his freedoms

it's another weapon of mass deception. He's an arrogant asshole who mistakes his own stupidity for everyone else's.

[Fridays Child]

13. It's conscious overcompensation for slurring, brought on by...

...medication. My personal theory is that he has seizure disorder and he takes barbiturates for it. For what it's worth, about thirty percent of dyslexics are also epilieptic. In Chimpy's case, it would explain a lot of things, such as the pretzel and mountain bike incidents, his bad teeth, and the slurring/hyper-enunciation, of course.

Edit: For my money, we're barking up the wrong tree in asking for his military service records. We should be demanding, instead, a complete set of his medical records.

[Th1onein]

16. I don't see what the big deal is here........

Haven't you ever seen someone really drunk? Haven't you ever noticed that they enunciate their words carefully? Otherwise, they'd be slurring all over the place. This is all it is with Bush, too. He's just a drunk trying to speak clearly. Geez! What's the big deal about that? Bush isn't even a DRY drunk anymore. Just a damned drunk, period.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

22. I guess it's the verbal equivalent of a drunk trying to walk a straight

line very carefully.

[Cleita]

19. Maybe Condi is giving him elocution lessons in bed every night

before they go to sleep.

I shouldn't say stuff like that. :spank:

[bleowheels]

20. That's how they are on his karaoke teleprompter!!!

Otherwise he would'nt be able to pronounce them. }(

[spanone]

21. He thinks were as stupid as he is.