Best Hope for Dems: More Shrub Press Conferences!

The more Dubya opens his stupid mouth at these (supposedly) unscripted press conferences, the more people can see the real Bush -- prickly, thin-skinned, sneering, combative, incoherent, and just so...so...DUMB! And this was with reporters lobbing him mostly easy shots. Imagine what would happen if they started asking truly tough questions. The guy would go into meltdown, he would have a spoiled brat hissy fit right on the podium.

...to reveal himself.

What we need is a live hour-long debate between him and some democratic candidates. Just ask him some hard questions when he doesn't have a script!

before training camp even started.

Today's NFL QB's have to be able to call signals "off the cuff", improvise, call audibles, etc.

Here's how THAT relates to press conferences: you have to be able to speak "off the cuff", come back with quotes, observations, improvise an answer or suggestion, in short, not act as though you're reading from a script you dare not deviate from. Bill Clinton was a master at this art. The contrast between him and * in a press conference is as wide as the Grand Canyon.


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Bush is. Aren't they embarassed that he "speaks for America"? His goober, redneck "bring 'em on" attitude makes me sick.

no matter who the candidate is...* will make a fool of himself.

They couldn't POSSIBLY allow him to appear in a debate format.

I think his intellectual ability has deteriorated to an extraordinary extent since the last presidential debates, if you can imagine it being any worse than it was then. :crazy:

Its the goobers who vote in Droves.... I fear the only way to beat this idiot. Is for some to say repeated that the emporer has not clothes and more important the emporer has no brain. We have to convince the Goobers that they want someone smarter then themselves in the White House. ANd * is an idiot.

The only candidate withthe Ballss to do that is DEAN...but he may may be too liberal to take the goober vote.

expressed this same exact talking point "The only candidate withthe Ballss to do that is DEAN...but he may may be too liberal to take the goober vote." in a different thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=117696&mesg_id=117696#117722

sans the typos. I addressed it, this absurdly erroneous statement you are repeating across the board, in the other thread and look forward to your reply to it.

Julie

The tree is green because it is a green treething. He makes you feel shame for the country just to hear him.

Why don't people catch on to this???

Never mind....I guess I know the answer. :eyes:

him IN PUBLIC and LIVE when it can't be cut out....he would be revealing himself as the mean natured, short tempered moron he really is....The MYTH of him being a good-natured, loves everybody kind of guy is just that...A MYTH....I posted something similar to this a couple of weeks ago...I think he's high in the polls for no other reason than that the public buys this phony picture of him as a good old guy who has their best interests at heart!

actually appeals to a lot of voters. I'll never understand that. Maybe it's just me, but I'm uncomfortable with a guy in the White House who probably couldn't beat J-Lo in a game of Celebrity Jeopardy.

It's no small secret that his handlers discourage him from un-scripted public speaking.

I think that many people have gotten used to have presidents who are from and raised as an elitest and have lots of practice of performing in front of cameras and who speek quite well in front of cameras. Others like Bush, is from the South, speeking with a Texan accent and he isn't comfortable being in front of cameras and doesn't try to be something he is not (this could be good and bad). Some people just seem be more intune with certain politicians who speek a certain way.

let me clue you in on the common man while we're on the subject re: george. The common man maybe a C student, but he doesn't get into Yale University. The common man does not graduate from Yale with a 69 in Geology and have an oil drilling buisness waiting for him to run into the ground. The common man doesn't summer in Kennybunkport. The common man has earned every dollar he has ever made. The common man can't collect $2,000 for a hotdog from people to hear him speak like a common man. The common man knows what it's like to struggle.
and those of us who don't live with our parents , watch professional wrestling and posses yosemite sam mudflaps think george is pretty damn stupid!

not only is his demeanor crude and elementary, it is an insulting embarrassment..do you think this is decorrum befitting a President: "Evil Doers", Dead or Alive", "Freedom Loving People" "Misunderestimate", "Bring'em On"???? you may think this is the "way to the common mans heart" and to some people, you may be right. but, you know what? i don't think the Framers of this country ever envisioned a "common man" being President. it is an exceptional job that requires an exceptional person. and bush* is a mediocre man doing a deplorable job!

someone posteda rant here last month and i must say that i agree 100% with them

Regardless of his accent when he "speeks", Bush is the product of Eastern elite background: private academies, Yale, and Harvard. He's been given everything by others his whole life. There is not one event from his background that would make him a "common man" he pretends to be.

He's simply a rich, spoiled, STUPID brat who wasted the vast majority of his life partying and drinking and living it up. I happy for him that he finally grew up in his mid-40's, but that doesn't make him Presidential material.

It's extremely stressing on the news agencies to make bush*sucks appear even half-way human, intelligent, or personal.

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce:....but, his handlers know this :(

...on Friday, Chris Jansing (MSNBC) and Dana Milbank (Washington Post WH correspondent) had a whole segment rehabilitating that press conference. They showed a bunch of clips of George making his dumb statements and laughed about them. Milbank said "This is Bush at his best, engaging and self deprecating." Jansing talked about his Texas straight talk with the "we're on the hunt" repetitions. There was not an ounce of criticism in their commentary. They were amused.

I wrote both of them letters telling them it was not their job to flatter the president and whitewash his inadequacies. Milbank wrote back to me "I'll forward this to my handlers at the White House."

The WH press corp is evidently as defensive and prickly as the Shrub. Milbank writes plenty of columns exposing the Bushistas, but then he seems to be "charmed" by Bush in person. I watched Bush's perfomance and was dumbfounded, horrified, appalled. Others watch the same and think he was "engaging" and "at his best". I don't even begin to understand...