Get Up, Mr. President!

Nobody's Perfect: Tonight on the History Channel they had a special program about body language: how politicians are mostly judged by it, and how most of the time, elections are won by just how well the candidates can be coached to use the right gestures, make the right faces at the right times, use their voices and their speech patterns to manipulate the crowds...

Obama is a master at it. So was Bill Clinton, and so was Hitler. Master the tricks of the trade and you can be numero uno.

And as I was watching it, I kept thinking about just how terrible our President, George W. Bush, has looked for the last four years.

Too many times, he looked near tears.

If you judged him by his body language alone... something beyond great grief has happened to the man, and he now simply reads his lines, no matter what the occasion. Whether his sadness is about Laura, or the national woes...or a combination, it shows.

And it's very disheartening to this nation. It says to us that he gave up on us a long time ago.

Now...some days, he seems to be a glimpse of his old cocky self, but we have not seen too much of that old cowboy for a very long time. If you were a psychiatrist, he looks almost bi-polar.

His eyes keep saying: "Our nation is doomed." It doesn't matter what the voice is saying. When Bush says "not to panic" at this financial mess, no-one believes him because he says it so flatly.

It's like he saying, "Hey, I just deliver the messages now."

Talk about body language---do you remember the television footage several years ago, when the elder Bush broke down in Florida, while giving a speech for his son, Governor Jeb Bush? He actually collapsed from immense grief at the podium.

For an ex-President to break down and cry with such anguish, in front of the world, was the first sign to me, that something was really, really wrong.

Did he know that our country was over? Does he know about a terrorist attack coming? Was he crying because history would report that it was a Bush that caused its demise? Was it just because he'd promised Jeb he could be President someday and couldn't pull it off?

But, one thing is obvious. If you judge by his body language, President Bush simply doesn't care anymore: about us, about his legacy, about the war, about anything. You can see it in his eyes, and judge by the tsunami of verbal mistakes he makes daily just in his simple speeches.

I don't know...I feel sorry for the man.

But that pity only goes so far---because we elected him. And no matter what's going on, he should have the maturity to put a little more effort into being the President.

So here's some advise from a nobody.....

You've only got a few more months Mr. President. If you must be the last man standing...and you really feel you've been misjudged...than at least be brave enough to put up a fight.

Get up.

You're not dead yet, and neither is America.