It's been apparent for some time - years really. But with every passing day it becomes harder to deny. George W. Bush is totally oblivious. The man is totally oblivious, unconcerned, incurious, just plain unaware of what's going on in the world around him.
I've heard and read about bush spinning the truth, or hiding from reality, or being in denial. He is none of those things. He is just totally, utterly, absolutely oblivious to everything around him. He just flat out doesn't have the vaguest freaking clue what the hell is going on. Nor does he care.
Juxtapose this article:
Bush Shares His Optimism on Iraqwith this one:
Death squads on the prowl in a nation paralysed by fear and toss in this last one for good measure:
Bush marks Iraq date, omits using 'war' word - as if not saying the word "war" will make the war go away. As if the words he uses, or doesn't use, will change what is actually happening in the world.
Of course, he doesn't even pay attention to the words he uses. He just reads what they put in front of him. If you don't believe this, watch him give a prepared speech, reading off the teleprompter, and then watch him in an unscripted press conference. Even among pre-screened, friendly, loyalty-oath-signing crowds of adoring ditto-heads, he STILL can't answer even a simple, scripted question without stumbling over his own words and (ahem) thoughts. If that's not enough, consider that after proudly declaring himself a "wartime president" for the past 4 years, he now no longer calls what's happening in Iraq a war. WTF?
Some other examples:
After sitting through at least one meeting warning in no uncertain terms about the impending destruction of a major U.S. city, he blissfully continued his month-long vacation, eating John McCain's birthday cake and pretending to play guitar at fundraisers for his millionaire buddies, while the poor people in New Orleans sat on their rooftops waiting for rescue.
After hearing that our nation was under attack, he blissfully sashayed into a classroom full of children, apparently hoping to show off his reading skills to a bunch of third graders - and even there, was probably the person least well-read, least knowledgable, least competent, and least capable of running this country in the entire building.
After spending 4 years telling us in great detail how evil the Arabs and Muslims are - scaring the crap out us with stories of how Osama, al-Zarqawi, Saddam, the entire Arab world, and anyone else with brown skin "hate our freedoms" and want to rain down death and destruction on our whole way of life, he tells us how secure our ports will be with the United Arab Emirates running them. Then he wonders why we're confused about that. And then we find out that he didn't even know about that deal until he saw people complaining about it on the news. WE knew about it before HE did.
Don't even get me started on the economy, the deficit, the environment (can you say "clear skies", "healthy forests" - sure, the forests can't be sick if you cut them all down, ANWR, etc etc), Medicare, Medicaid, student loans, after school programs, No Child Left Behind... and all of his other great "success" stories too numerous to mention. But in his world, everything is just freaking fabulous. Because in his world, the rest of the world doesn't exist.
This is the man in charge. This is the great republican "leader." This is the man who, according to the right wing, takes his orders directly from god, and therefore can do no wrong
(then again, they get their news and opinions from a junkie, a pervert, a transgender who advocates murdering Supreme Court Justices, and a handful of whores)1. This is the most powerful man on the planet - the Commander in Chief of the world's most powerful military in history - the man with his twitchy finger on "the button". And he is completely unaware of the world around him. Painfully unaware. Frighteningly unaware. Blissfully unaware. Perhaps that explains the smirk, and the nervous laugh.
About the only person I can think of that was less in touch with the world might have been Terri Schiavo. I'd put him about even with Helen Keller, because she used what senses she had to at least try to pay attention. He has all his senses, but doesn't even try.
My dog has more going on between his floppy ears that george w bush does between his. The fleas on my dog could give him a run for his money. The president is about as cognizant of the world around him - that there even is a world around him - as a rock, or a tree.
No, not even as cognizant as a tree. Make that a bush.
1(rush "the junkie pigboy" limbaugh, "falafel bill" o'reilly, ann-thrax coulter, sean hannity, foxnews in general, the likes of armstrong "I'll say what you want if you pay me enough" williams, etc) 
