Fournier must have spent a lot of time in therapy to be able to do this kind of quackery psychoanalysis on the SOTU. Where the hell does he see these bizarre things? Did he watch the speech with Cindy Sheehan and Joel Stein?
Bush wasn't 'asking' for a second chance. He was, in the words of Chili Palmer, the one telling you how it is. Period. No questions, no comments.