See Bush Debate. See Him Squirm. (Business Week)

http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/oct2004/nf2004101_0937_db009.htm

Watching George W. Bush on the hot seat is painful. When he gets that fawn-in-the-deerjacker's-light look, you feel for the guy.

Publicly at least, he's not a mean-spirited man. Near the end of Thursday's debate when he was asked if he had any reservations about John Kerry's character, he was gracious, momentarily generous, and generated the evening's only human moment. And not just because his opponent is a fellow Skull & Bones man (see BW Online, 10/1/04, "Republicrat vs. Democan"). That's usually the way Bush comes across -- a likable Joe, sincere in his beliefs, and comfortable in his own skin. Advertisement

DEBATING POPPY. Besides that, he's the President and has led the nation at a time of enormous peril and uncertainty (some of it, arguably, of his own making). Love him or detest him, he sits at the desk where the buck makes its last stop.

But in Coral Gables, Fla., last night, Bush looked -- at least for the first half of the debate -- like Elmer Befuddled, a commander-in-chief not in command.

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I feel he should have fewer responsibilities. I feel the load should be lifted from his shoulders and given to someone who's competent to carry it.

And then I feel he should be tried for war crimes in the Hague.

But that's just me.

He is one mean guy and you do not cross him or put him down.

Uhhh, isn't that kind of like adoring Gary Gilmore, John Wayne Gacy or Jeffry Dahlmer?

I don't have the capacity to admire sociopaths that enjoy death.

-85% Jimmy

because his every move and appearance is stage-managed. Anybody who thinks last night was a fluke is simply unaware of how completely "handled" Bush is the rest of the time.

even Begala says he "likes" Bush. There is nothing, NOTHING likeable about that thieving, incompetent moronic bastard.

"When Kerry, methodically making his case like the prosecutor he once was, said, "This President has made a colossal error of judgment" by invading Iraq, Bush looked like a 1960s teenager called on the carpet for cracking up the family Oldsmobile."

Are the ones that go from there to his wallet. If anyone can name ONE THING that * has accepted proper responsibility for, I'll take that back.

"a likable Joe, sincere in his beliefs, and comfortable in his own skin. Advertisement"

That's advertisement all right.

Now, how about the truth...