Anybody read anything to explain Bush's speech cadence.

Pause between each word,slap that desk every few words. Psychologist or someone have a theory? If you watched the Alexandra Pelosi documentary he talked at regular speed back then.

My guess is that he rehearsed over and over again so he wouldn't make any of his usual mistakes. Probably has a speech coach telling him to slow it down and put pauses everywhere so he can't trip up.

I think it is quite possible. He probably did enough coke and booze to really screw his brain up years ago.

I didn't watch the speach, but it sounds to me that he was taking some good ole southern preachin lessons.

Our parents raised us in the baptist church and our pator was always slapping the podium. I always got annoyed with him because it kept me awake. Well that and the slaps of my mother.. but thats another story for another time.

It was during the last presidential campaign. They compared the speaking styles of Bush and Kerry, and talked about how they've changed over the years. It was a pretty obvious attempt to bring up the subject of Bush's 10-15 year mental decline in a tactful way.

If you go back and listen to interviews, speeches, etc. from Bush Jr. in the late 80's-early 90's, there's a really marked difference. Not only is his Texas twang completely absent, but he could express complete thoughts without slaughtering the language every 10 seconds. He wasn't eloquent by any means, but he was at least coherent.

Anyway, the interviewee put it down mostly to intentional rhetorical style (yeah, right), but there was some discussion of mental disease as well, I believe. Wish I could find the interview.

1,2,3 smirk. Very simple.

There's the "preacher's style" of speech that he uses pretty effectively - I mean, you can't miss that he's preaching at you.

Then there's a speaking "technique" that's known as the use of "imbedded commands". This is intentional emphasis on certain words when speaking so that the words sort of "slip" right into the brain and act as instructions. It's part of trance-inducing techniques and he most definitely uses it.

This president is making use of all the effective (or "manipulative" if you prefer that term) modern communications techniques - in order to generate a response that he wants. These are techniques from the fields of advertising, public relations, persuasive speaking and hypnotic trance induction.

So many of us can't stand to listen to him for a second. There is an instant recognition of a menace. This is akin to the fact that repug true believers turn off after .000000000000001 second of an antiBush message or remark. Their conditioning kicks in at light speed.

I think you're on to something.

What you say makes a lot of sense to me. It helps explain why we and they absolutely cannot make sense of the other's reaction to him.

NLP is a system that teaches that patterns of speech, emotionally anchored words, cadence, and sequencing all be used to induce trance. Just Google NLP or 'Neuro Linguistic Programming' for info.

a few interesting passages that relate to this idea...

from "The Killing of the King" by James Shelby Downard

Never allow anyone the luxury of assuming that because the dead and deadening scenery of the American city-of-dreadful-night is so utterly devoid of mystery, so thoroughly flat-footed, sterile and infantile, so burdened with the illusory gloss of "baseball-hot dogs-apple-pie-and-Chevrolet" that it exists somehow outside the psycho-sexual domain. The eternal pagan psychodrama is escalated under these "modern" conditions precisely because sorcery is not what 20th century man can accept as real.

Thus the "Killing of the King" rite of November, 1963 is alternately diagnosed as a conflict between "anti-Castro reactionaries and the forces of liberalism", big business and the big bankers, this-or-that wing of the intelligence community and so on. Needless to say, each of these groups has a place in the symbolism having to do with the Kennedy assassination...but the ultimate purpose of that assassination was not political or economic but sorcerous: for the control of the dreaming mind and the marshaling of its forces is the omnipotent force in this entire scenario of lies, cruelty and degradation. Something died in the American people on November 22, 1963-call it idealism, innocence or the quest for moral excellence. It is the transformation of human beings which is the authentic reason and motive for the Kennedy murder.

from "Secret Societies and Psychological Warfare" by Michael A. Hoffman II

The Occult Cryptocracy processes the Group Mind of the Masses mainly through ritual psychodrama. The alchemical and Rosicrucian command dogmas were literary works. In the course of receiving the establishment's accounts of...(the news)...a mental virus is implanted in many percipients. The hypodermic needle in this case is nothing more startling than a campfire story, only the campfire is the crackling electrical current of a television and the story is of our extinction.

I am always more than amused when the audience doesn't react in the expected way & he is surprised and flustered,,,,,