When George W. Bush speaks, what comes to mind is spit drool pablum leaking from his brain.

The man seems incapable of stringing together two coherent sentences.

Indeed, most of the time any one individual sentence of his is incomprehensible.

Of course, the above applies only to unscripted utterances. Bush is capable of competently reading a speech. He also seems to have enough mental functioning to memorize answers to questions and regurgitate them verbatim. (He will often, in the midst of answering an unrehearsed question, veer off into one of his canned answers, however unrelated, just so he'll have words coming out of his mouth).

And what's with that droopy mouth of his? Has he had a stroke no one knows about? I thought Dick Cheney was the one with the severe cardiovascular problems.

It is bewildering that mainstream "journalists" have lately been falling all over themselves to express the nation's relief that Bush is not the simpleton portrayed by Saturday Night Live's Will Ferrel.

What on earth are they basing that on? It seems to be the fact that since taking office Bush has made some policy proposals. Conceived and written by others, such proposals do nothing to establish Bush's mental bona fides.

Just recently, when trying to explain the latest U.S. attacks on Iraq, Bush was incredibly incoherent.

I would wager a substantial sum that were Bush to take a standard battery of intelligence tests, in certain areas he would fall in the "impaired" range.

The powers that be need a pliable cretin to do their bidding. George W. is the one.

Update: A reader suggested that Bush suffered brain damage from alcohol and cocaine abuse during his "When I was young and irresponsible, I was young and irresponsible" days (which he admitted lasted until he was 40 years old).