Why does George W. Bush often begin his response to a question by saying, "That's a very interesting question"

Answer 1

That's a very interesting question....

Answer 2

I've been a salesman for most of my life, and this is a common technique. It gives you a moment to think.In a give and take sales situation, you can turn this around into a probing question, by asking the questioner what he thinks the answer is.

In a sense, everyone is a salesman everyday, whether you are trying to convince your kids to do something, trying to make your wife happy, trying to move someone to your way of thinking on an issue. It's all the same.

All successful (and ethical) salespeople learn early on to find out what the other person wants. You do that by listening. That's the hard part. Usually fulfilling the need is the easiest part ;-)

Answer 3

Mr Bush is not a spell-binding speaker. What he IS is an honest guy who knows what he believes and says what he believes to be true.

His canned response gives him a few seconds to formulate his answer in an honest way.

When Clinton answered a question ( though most of the time he knew in advance what the questions would be, who would be allowed to ask them, and everything was carefully scripted ) he had the policy-wonk answer right on the tip of his filthy mind...bush isn't like that. He'll tell you what he thinks...may be wrong, may be due to some misinterpretation, but it won't be a focus-grouped dammed lie like Bill Clinton would give.

Answer 4

In order to be polite.

Since most of the press are leftists who despise the president, their questions are often designed to politically harm Prez Bush.

So instead of him saying, "That's a f^&*^ing stupidass question you retarded liberal sissy-mary!", he says, "That's a very interesting question."

Considering some of the questions hurled at him, his equanamity and calm in giving thoughtful answers back is one of the signs of his deep Christian nature.

Compare Bush's reactions to questions with Clinton's when asked a question he doesn't like.

Clinton yells, screams, lies, insults the asker, blames the right, etc. Not much of a man, is he?

Answer 5

Every question to George is interesting because he never knows the correct answer.

Answer 6

Why do every noe of your questions have to begni with a slandering of your country?

Its a way of giving yourself a minute to think about the question without saying "uhhhhhh". Its longer than "ummmmm"

Answer 7

I would think he says that because he finds their question very interesting

Answer 8

because to George W Bush, the human being is a curious thing, and he has yet to get his little monkey brain around how the human voice connects with the synapses in the brain to form coherent words and sounds, therefore making ANYTHING his monkey ears here to be interesting.

Answer 9

Because he never thinks up a question himself so every question is interesting if you live with a head devoid of questions.

Answer 10

Its an old debating tactic that allows you to marshal your thoughts so you can make a cogent argument.