Clearly The Poorest Performance By An American President Of All Time

I have never seen as poor an appearance by a President of the United States of America in my 57 years. That man is beyone impeachment. He should be exiled.

Is such pure, unadulturated stupidity a "high crime and misdemeanor?"

That's a very interesting question.

are enough. Amend the constitution.

or something like that. I could not believe it. Broadcast media is on his side, no question.

I thought Rather had resisted the Koolaid to this point.

assholes

Has he visited the "Ranch"???

I also have never seen any press conference as bad as this. He will look good in handcuffs.

The man was a BABBLING FOOL!....He's an embarrassment to humanity!

This was so unbelievably horrendous that I was unable to look away. 250 years of work, toil, and slavery, to have THIS CREATURE as president of what was the greatest country on the planet. I am stunned.

At 52 years old I was appauled and shocked that almost half of the American people voted for such a poor excuse. He couldn't be the leader of a rock colony on Mars...but then again perhaps that is where he should be exiled to.

last days in the WH to remember such a rambling, incoherent, and obviously embarrasing performance.

People got the Leader they deserve

I don't remember the politician who said that

there is nothing better than to fight a stupid adversary.

and the puppet masters are no dummies.

few short minutes afther the conference and George Stephanopoulos called him on the carpet. The only other non whoring I saw was on CPAN. Judy Woodruff took a jab or two also (shocked).

I had to turn it off at that point.

and didn't whore.

after Jennings said he was passionate......George S. stated all that was made clear was we were staying in Iraq for a long time and going to be spending even more money doing so.

That's when I changed channels.

:shrug:

I've never seen an elected public official speak so incoherently.

Anyone watching Hardball? Why doesn't Chris just bend over and kiss him on the ass?

I was driving down the road & someone called me up & said that's the stupidest man in America. I bet tens of thousands on people got calls like that tonite.

He was on his way to the airport -- going to work (pilot). When he answered his phone, all I could say was "Oh my God, Hon, he's a fucking idiot." I don't even use the "f" word. But with this guy in office, I can't stop myself.

Bush did not do that poorly. It is going to be a long campaign, people.

you must have been watching a different video feed - not only was his tie on fire the entire time, but he was clearly disoriented and depressed. He is falling fast emotionally and it's only a matter of time until he has to go away to 'feel better'.

"He's the vacationingest president I've ever seen!", he said in his best Edith Massey voice.

That was the worst performance I've ever seen by a POLITICIAN in my life, never mind by a pResident!

Did you not notice how his voice went up an octave while his pacing tripled? Squeezed by fear and uncertainty, he sputtered through...

...this is leadership? Our Founding Fathers are spinning in their graves!

This is the man with his finger on the button, someone who controls a security budget that tops (now) $400 billion yearly. Sadly, the mediawhores were spinning positively, and the Coulterites will be proud of the "man" who stood up to the "evil" of elementary but honest questioning.

"May you live in interesting times" goes a Confuscian curse. Sadly, we do. We do.

He is not a real good speaker and that is what they are used to seeing from him.

What he did tonight was repeat his Image Mantra words:

FREEDOM AMERICAN OBLIGATION GATHERING THREAT STAY THE COURSE
FREEDOM AMERICAN OBLIGATION GATHERING THREAT STAY THE COURSE
FREEDOM AMERICAN OBLIGATION GATHERING THREAT STAY THE COURSE
FREEDOM AMERICAN OBLIGATION GATHERING THREAT STAY THE COURSE
FREEDOM AMERICAN OBLIGATION GATHERING THREAT STAY THE COURSE
FREEDOM AMERICAN OBLIGATION GATHERING THREAT STAY THE COURSE
FREEDOM AMERICAN OBLIGATION GATHERING THREAT STAY THE COURSE

That works pretty well for getting across to most Americans who are not paying that much attention. And it works well for soundbites. From that perspective, Bush did fine.

You guys have to remember the framework here.

Bush has only had 3 prime time news conferences, so how could anyone be used to seeing this?

I watched the whole thing, uncharacteristically for me. (Normally I can't stand to even listen to the guy.)

The speech at the beginning was delivered in a very uninspiring and droning fashion. The Q&A started off decently for Bush, but after he got one question about not admitting mistakes, he started rambling on and on about very little. And that was his pattern for the entire last half-hour. Avoid the question and ramble on in a barely coherent way. every once in a while remembering to insert his talking points (the only moments of clarity).

It was extremely unimpressive from someone in the position he is in. Even with the low expectations I, of course, had.

--Peter

I honestly thought we were moments from a shriek and mad dash out of the room. Several posters tonight question Bush's mental health, and I agree; he appeared and sounded very depressed, anxious -- he had to marshall every last drop of psychic energy to get back in rhythm (near the end). But I grant you your admonition. We did not witness enough to guarantee an electoral victory. We have hard work to do.

We face: A near-monopolized rightwing media who will spin that Bush spoke with eloquent confidence; we have Diebold to worry about; and the $200 million spin of the Rovian Wurlitzer. Plus there will be the series of October Surprises (OBL, the discovery of planted WMD). And worse, we have Tommy Franks' words, we may not even have an election this year.

But I gotta' think the powers that stand behind Bush are having second thoughts tonight.

and tilt it to one side... he is a clone coming of age. I think his father (or source cell) had similar disabilities and psychological disfunction, but had many more years of learning to cover it up...

1000 POINTS OF LIGHT, STAY THE COURSE, NEW WORLD ORDER
1000 POINTS OF LIGHT, STAY THE COURSE, NEW WORLD ORDER
1000 POINTS OF LIGHT, STAY THE COURSE, NEW WORLD ORDER
1000 POINTS OF LIGHT, STAY THE COURSE, NEW WORLD ORDER
1000 POINTS OF LIGHT, STAY THE COURSE, NEW WORLD ORDER

I thought there was no way he could be elected after that. None. He turned into a two-termer. Scary. The spinning I saw after that debate was much like the spinning I saw tonight. Reagan was obviously not in full control of his faculties and Chimp is clearly not that bright. Yet the media doesn't appear to notice. Go figger.

It sounded like he was constructing his answers out of half of a set of magnetic poetry tiles.

I've never seen anything so incoherent.

that poorly???? try pathetic, incoherent, smug, and downright incompetent. This performance could be considered aiding and abetting the enemy.

:mad:

I couldn't stop cringing. I truly don't want the president of the U.S. to be that stupid. All I could think was "Oh my God(dess), the whole world is watching!!!!!!"

That was, without a doubt, the worst public speaking performance I have ever seen by ANY peron of authority. Business, academic, political - the WORST.

How anyone could watch that and not see a man struggling to avoid answering questions is beyond me. I'd like to hear our resident body language experts weigh in - my impression was that he was clearly shaken by the questions and cognizant of his ineptitude.

Stumbling, bumbling, going off topic and not answering the question(s).

and after watching tonight's "Press Conference" I registered.

I'm so very glad DU is here, because there seems to be a huge disconnect in the media. I understand that one must be suitably "respectful" of the President, but really...that was one of the most deeply troubling performances I've ever seen (and I've been a Democrat all my life; my earliest memories as a child were my parents working locally in John Kennedy's campaign).

Thank you Scrubdashrub. Good to be here (and to finally get the nerve to register).

With DU and Air America, things are looking up. Can't wait to hear what Franken says about this tomorrow...and Randy Rhodes will have a field day!

Glad you're here... yeah, it's pretty amazing, the rest of the world says "What the #$% are you people thinking?" And the U.S. media says "strong leadership, blah-ditty-blah..." Gag me. But welcome!

Its so nice to see you step up. At some point in your life you simply can not stand back anymore and this idiot has done one thing, if only by accident. He has given us a wakeup call about the kind of trash that is out there in the political realm - because if there is any single word that describes that man it is TRASH.

:toast: :toast:

Come on in, make yourself at home, and have a :beer:

We need every person to SPEAK OUT to others because our moribund fetid excuse for a Formerly Free Press won't do it. Bought off, intimidated, worse, it is rapidly approaching Media For Slaves.

Give every penny you can afford to the Kerry campaign, give your time, write a Letter to the Editor and keep writing them until they print one!

Explain to people the LIE of the "Liberal Media" and the False Dichotomy of the "For Us or Against Us" Bushevik Mantra that is stupidly reinfornced by the Pravda Whores at every turn.

Read www.buzzflash.com and www.bartcop.com and www.truthout.org and wherever else the truth lurks!

Welcome to Free America (we hold the True Country in our Hearts)!

Welcome to the Bush Brother Banana Republic Resistance. With the help of Patriots like yourself, we can send this Asshol Liar Fraud King George the same place we sent his Dumbass Ancestor in 1982!

And, MOST IMPORTANT, NEVER let a Bushevik push you around with their LYING BULLSHIT! Be strong. Answer back. Show them and their FAKE RIGHTEOUSNESS, implanted by Goebbels v2.0 propaganda machine, what REAL RIGHTEOUSNESS OF FREE AMERICA looks like!

Act like your life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness are threatened, because they may well be!

Go get 'em!

Nice to have you aboard.

"Don't cry! I never want to see anyone cry again! Let it turn. Let it turn to something else..."
--Patrick Swayze (Jed), "Red Dawn"

(a little harsh, but generally the sentiment we need to follow...generally)

or I should say better. I agree with the posters that he was the worst ever and I was ready to give him the benefit of the doubt. My husband said, "That made me want to go stand on a corner with a sign" and he isn't very political. The headlines should scream tomorrow, " President refuses to admit any errors, won't appologize." That was the biggest shock to me, how he truly could not admit to making a mistake. And it pissed me off that he said suggesting Iraq was another Vietnam gave aide to our enemies and hurt our troops. What a lying sack of shit!

I'll never watch this two-bit circus clown again, that's it!!!

. . . but it may offer a frame of context for explaining furthur operations there.

"We're changing the world."

"It's Americas destiny to spread God given freedoms (sic)"

"In addition to Iraq. We're also fighting world hunger and AIDS. (sic)"

Chimpy was linking Iraq to other attempts at making the world more "free" and a "better place." This makes it easier to defend action in Iraq for the Repugs.

He's busily converting the "war" in Iraq to the "battle" in Iraq. Time to move on. Can you say "rapture"????

the world,hear that world?

Readability 54.8 - 18% Passive Voice - :dunce:
Per Word 97

I think of some statements from former Presidents

-Ask Not What Your Country Can Do For You...--JFK

-Dec 7...a day that will live...---FDR

-Something will Pop into my head--GWBUSH

I think that should be on a coin.

and to be fair, I listened to it on radio so as to focus on the content and not be distracted/biased by other things. "Something will pop into my head." Hmm, wonder how many times he's relied on that 'strategery' for lying to the American people? :dunce:

it might threaten national security?

Excellent avatar!

if he thought if it would be worth it all if doing this "anti-terrorism" stuff cost him the election, he said,

"I don't plan to lose. I don't plan to lose."

I SCREAMED at the TV, "You arrogant son of a bitch!"

People are dying, being kidnapped and we're pissing off the rest of the world and he stands there all smug and arrogant. I wished I could have been there so I could have slapped him in the face.

Long-time, first-time here, too.

Boo$h is a uniter! ;-)

:hi:

-- enough to decide an election -- the man you saw speak tonight is either a god, to whom they will even offer their childrens' lives, or an instrument of God, an agent of the Divine Will.

Makes it hard to sleep at night, doesn't it?

The q&a portion of the show killed him. If you can defend this guy after tonight, see a therapist.

1. he seems very depressed-incoherent (i haven't seen this since Nixon's last days)-there was no logic to his thought-he would trail off-then get real egotistical(I,me never make mistakes)
2. the media (msnbc was really bad-matthews and fineman did not see what we saw) is portraying this well-i mean beyond partisan politics this was downright scary-how come they didn't see what we saw?
We are in deep crap my friends-Kerry really has to win-I think Bush may crack up before the election though

the press conference. To watch them grimace, you would have thought Chimpy was performing a high wire act without a net.

He was standing behind the curtain, and after *'s little "brown-skinned people" comment, the sound of his hand slapping his forehead was clearly audible.

:evilgrin:

It's a disappointment, embarrassing as Hell, unsatisfying, and FRUSTRATING!

n/t

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The flashing signal of the Tie That Bewilders Minds has damaged your cognitive powers; let's hope it's not permanent.

He brought the country into a recession; unemployment & the deficit continue to grow. He's led us into two wars; we won't be "through" them for a long time.

After receiving numerous warnings of attacks on America, possibly involving hijacking ("conventional" or otherwise), his performance on 9/11 was shameful. He walked into a silly photo-op KNOWING that multiple planes had been hijacked & one had hit the WTC. He heard of the second hit but did not interrupt the lesson. Then he fled.

But we're talking about his performance last night. He was incoherent & failed to answer one question satisfactorily.

Get well soon.

You took the wrong pill my friend.

WMD stands for "W's of Monstrous Duncery", of course! :)

with his post-9/11 conference. My gosh, remember that one? Crop dusters...evil doers...smoke them out of their caves...he got a huge break from a largely still shocked nation. I recall that resulting in one of the liveliest and wittiest DU threads however...

(I didn't watch because I can't stand him)but I see that the views here are that 1) he did his usual 'suck' and 2) the media analysis afterward was that he was passionate, resolved, etc. RING ANY BELLS?? This is the same shit they said after each of his debate performances in 2000 instead of an honest evaluation of "what the fuck is something that pathetic doing in a presidential race!!??". Therefore, folks, you have the already pre-written analysis that you are going to hear after the 2004 debates: George=firm, strong, visionary; Kerry=snob with no ideas on how to lead.

I watched almost all of the press conference (darn, I missed the "something will pop into my head" blurb!), and was absolutely dumbfounded that the media I watched afterwards (Jim Lehrer, Brooks, Oliphant) were so gracious in their critique of the Q&As. I think the media/press are simply too close to the people they are covering. They are looking and listening for certain/specific things from a press conference, and those things are not the same things that Joe & Jan Doe Americans are looking and listening for.

Bush was asked several times whether he felt he should apologize (like Clarke did) for either 9/11 or the invasion of Iraq, and every single time he evaded the question. Brooks and Oliphant said that this is just an example of a "vague question getting a vague answer." Bullshit! It's an honest question that demands and deserves an honest answer.

And what is this new verbage: change the world, and war footing. Since when is it America's job to change the world???

I try so hard not to let my left leanings effect my objectivity. I mean, I'm always checking myself to make sure that my "passions don't override my reason." But, please...this was absolutely the worst presidential news conference that I have ever seen. I mean, there were times when I was saying to myself...Oh, my God!

I think when he starting stumbling around concerning what "mistakes" he might have possibly made...comments like "Gee, I wish I would have had this question in advance" or "It's hard to come up with something when you're in front of a group like this" or "Something usually comes to me, but..." etc.etc. I mean, this is unbelievable.

I'm 51 years old...and I'm astonished that someone of such little intellect and poise can rise to the highest office in the land. How could something like this happen?!!

By the way...how does one go about starting a new thread???

-Paige

a president didn't/shouldn't have to face. GMAFB.