FUBAR WATCH: American Idiot / Presidential Wiggles

For President Under Duress, Body Language Speaks Volumes

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Bush blinks twice. He touches his tongue to his lips. He blinks twice more. He starts to answer, but he stops himself.

"I'm not going to talk about the case," Bush finally says after a three-second pause that, in television time, feels like a commercial break.
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The president was a blur of blinks, taps, jiggles, pivots and shifts. Bush has always been an active man, but standing with Lauer and the serene, steady first lady, he had the body language of a man wishing urgently to be elsewhere
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Bush blinked 24 times in his answer
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Bush blinked 37 times in a single answer -- along with a lick of the lips, three weight shifts and some serious foot jiggling
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"out of the rubble here on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi is a rebuilding"
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He smiled after observing that Iraqis are "paying a serious price" because of terrorism
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the presidential eyes zoomed left, then right, then left and right again, then center, down and up at the interviewer
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Bush pushed out his lower front lip, then licked the right corner of his mouth
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appeared to provoke furious jiggling of the right leg
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the first lady had a calming influence on the presidential wiggles