This is the worst press conference performance in the history of U.S.

Bush is showing us today why he is not up to the job. He is stuttering around searching for his thoughts. Totally uncertain of his answers. Looking down at his cheat sheet for answers. This guy is a total joke.

THE EMPEROR HAS NO CLOTHES

also, the vast majority of the public will see a couple of sound bites which will portray Great Leader as giving a boffo performance. The hemming and hawing and shuffling from left to right and stuttering and obvious cluelessness will not be highlighted.

when everyone's at work and can't see him....

who are NOT at work because of this man's policies.

:shrug: I think it's going to be the shortest sound
byte ever ...

The sound byte is "Ummmm" My second grade teacher would give an F if we ever used Ummm. What a moran.

quote. Joke about how whimiscal he is, what a great sense of humor. Hell, if your boss talked liked him at work youwould either start looking for a new job or send anonymous letters to Board suggesting that he be sent to rehab post haste

Bush is a farce, a cartoon character at best.

where Shrub put on his butch, outraged commander-in-thief personna. That's the one they'll use.

And I'm sure that's the reason it was delivered in this manner.

They want leadership and strength. Give em Dean.

Reporters only receive the microcphone to ask their question. How truly sad in the "world's greatest democracy. "

Note also how he glowers and glares and gives the evil eye to reporters, all but warning them not to ask difficult questions.

Yes, he is the absolute worst speaker in the history of the presidency.

Whoops! He just came back from one!

him that way, no matter how many times he may fuck up when speaking or doing anything else. For some unfathomable reason, they continue to think of him as a "regular joe." GAAAAAAGGGGGG MEEEEE!!!!!!!!

"I, too, could be President"

He doesn't get all caught up in this elitist grey area stuff, he says it straight. Those limousine liberal degenerates will never understand a real god-fearing down-to-earth guy.

Just when you thought we'd reached the absolute nadir of the lowest common denominator, new frontiers open before us.

I'm pretty smart, but I want somebody a helluva lot smarter than I am to be the leader of the free world, the most powerful man/woman in the world, etc. I emphatically do NOT want the village idiot to be the President of the United States!

Bake

It truly is the "best worst" of all. I didn't know I had this capacity to be this disgusted. Even Lyndon Johnson suffered some terrible remorse. This piece of shit isn't capable of it. So he can be as evil as he needs to be.

"I didn't know I had this capacity to be this disgusted." That pretty well sums things up.

reporter on international TV to make not just one joke, but two.

Not even funny a funny one at that.

What an asshole.

JM

We have a no-class MORON "leading" our contry.

What a disgrace.

I would so love a reporter to say to him, after one of his snide, iinsulting "asides" to them, "sir, I am an adult, and a professional, here doing my job just as are you. Please afford me the same level of civility you expect from me, address me by my last name, and answer my question. Thank you."

if a reporter said that to him. He can't think in compound sentences.

"Bush said to the reporter, "You have a face for radio" and the reporter responded, "I wish I could say that's the first time you've said that, sir," and bush said that he was repeating himself for a national audience. Bravo for that reporter for calling him on it!"

(From NJCher)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=333587&mesg_id=333707&page=

After Bush mentioned it was the first time he'd said it in front of a national audience, the reporter said something very close to:

Yes sir, the last time you said it, it was to my wife.


Did anyone else hear that?

from "The Uncompassionate Conservative"

<snip>

Bush is just another upper-class white boy trying to prove he's tough. The minute he is questioned, he becomes testy and defensive. That's one reason why they won't let him hold many press conferences.

<snip>

If there were a rationale Bush could express, it would be one thing, but to watch him not see, not make the connection, is another thing entirely. Welfare, Medicare, Social Security, foot stamps -- horrors, they breed dependence. Whereas inheriting millions of dollars and having your whole life handed to you on a platter is good for the grit in your immortal soul? What we're dealing with here is a man in such serious denial it would be pathetic if it weren't damaging to so many lives.

Bush's lies now fill volumes. He lied us into two hideously unfair tax cuts; he lied us into an unnecessary war with disastrous consequences; he lied us into the Patriot Act, eviscerating our freedoms. But when it comes to dealing with those less provileged, Bush's real problem is not deception, but self-deception.

<end>

I don't have a link; I transcribed this from my hard copy.

This article will, in it's entirety, be available at the motherjones website, after the next issue hits the stands. I HIGHLY recommend everyone take advantage of this. If you have the money it would be well worth it to subscribe. These folks do some very good work....if you read their letters to the editor...it becomes apparent that they have the ear of some extremely powerful folks....on both sides of the aisle.


RC

to the reporter, "You have a face for radio". What a an immature statement to make. That's incredible, coming from the president of the United States. Sure makes me proud to have him as our leader........:puke:

Rome fell also because the mental capacities of their appointed Emperors kept getting lower and lower and lower...

Since the Amnerikan Empire was just created and isn't even fully in place yet I am forced to conclude that these are the Good Old Days.

And that as Bunnypants make us long for the intelligence and relatively law-abiding (notE I said RELATIVELY) od Nixon, so one day will the idiot Bushevik Emperors of the 2030s make us yearn for the the relatively wise, truthful and sober-minded Emperor Bunnypants*.

This I prophesy.

Apparently not the first time he made this degrading remark, either.

QUESTION: Thank you very much, sir, for including radio folks here.

BUSH: Face for radio.

(LAUGHTER)

QUESTION: I wish I could say that was the first time you told me that, sir.

(LAUGHTER)

BUSH: First time I did it to a national audience, though.

QUESTION: Actually my wife the last time.

SO - this paragon of righteous Christianity insults people to their spouses. THAT must be what Jesus would do. :eyes:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/28/politics/28TEXT_BUSH.html?pagewanted=print&position=

This is condescending, self-righteous, indignent, drunk frat boy statement and coming from a kid who has been a bully all his life!

If I were that reporter, I'd find away to sue the boy king over it.

"Interesting point sir...Did you sport that Clinton Signature Cod Piece in your Flight Suit Costume because you came to the same realization about your crotch?"

RC

press conference?

So Shrub basically told this reporter "you're ugly." And people laugh. And it will be totally ignored in the dominant press.

Why, oh why, didn't the reporter respond with something like "so you're telling me I'm ugly? In front of everyone here, and on national TV you're insulting my physical appearance? What, sir, makes you think you have the right to do that?"

"And by the way, you look like a monkey, and your mom looks like Mrs. Claus mummified. So fuck you."

. . . .laughed harder at that brief imagined retort than I have laughed in years at ANYTHING.

In the difficult days of the Shrub Regime, we have to do what we can to make each other smile (not smirk) once in a while.

I can't believe ANYONE thinks he is capable. He is just pathetic.

:argh:

Got to be drunk.

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

and won't get off.

the media (press) should be ashamed. I am so sick of seeing the 4th Estate kowtow to this inferior specimen of humanity.

He's claiming that questioning his policy is just Hot air. Wow:eyes:

:puke:

I only caught parts of it in the car, but this jackass is literally incapable of coherent thought in any way, shape or form. In reponse to the radio reporters (Mark Smith?) question on why the U.S. taxpaper should foot the $87B Iraqui bill, he IMMEDIATELY went to his "Saddam bad man" rote response!! I swear, if someone asks him what tomorrows weather will be the moran will respond "Saddam, bad man, terrorisths, hate us for or freedom, tax cuts."

I would now like to apologize to the rest of the world on behalf of thinking Americans everywhere.

Honestly, you are the (unelected) f*cking president of the United States...The least you could do is pretend that you care about the sickening policies that you foist on the country and the world.

Has anyone ever seen a more monatonic version of Shrub?

questions, so I can go to lunch." Oh ha ha, how charming and funny, answering questions from peons is such a bore to the little emperor, and it's hilarious when he reminds everyone of that.

usually my distaste for him puts me in such a bad mood, I can't, but this time he's so bad I can't help it.

To answer the question about his fundraising, he explained to us what fundraising is. To paraphrase, he said "we're going out to people saying hey, can you give us a little money?"

The meeting w/ Islamic leaders - 'murikans don't Blieve muslims R tear-a-wrists?!? That has been squatters unrelenting message & fueled the PNAC since 9/11 opened the door & they went scrambling thru.

Bush truly is clueless

I imagine transcripts of of shrub's speech are already circulating through the middle east as we speak.

ahh uhm, it is... ah uhm... LOL

He seemed so proud of himself for knowing how to pronounce it. I wonder if he will get a gold star from Condi to take home to his mom.

until he changed his name to Mohamed Ali and got his self
kicked out a da Army or sumptin.

Shrub

and hemmed and hawed and finally spit out the definition, I thought someone HAD to have prompted him through his earpiece. I swear he gets coached from someone off camera.

He's mentally challenged. He can't help it. Stop making fun of him.

Here we go again. Saddam and 9/11. Your safer Americans. Do you feel safer.Bush says you are, so you must be.Oh yah sure, David Kay will ferret out the truth.There were no WMD.

..

Thanks Cally,glad to be here. Nice to see a little sanity.

1. women-owned businesses flourishing in iraq
2. his fundraisers are "open forums" where anyone can hear and see what's going on
3. the world is a more peaceful place under his leadership
4. he is the only president to advocate a palestinian state

if this was true - where are all the pictures, dumbass?

Nope, it's all lies.

How painful it is to watch him attempt to field these questions.

I posted this in another thread that this was the most painful press conference I have ever witnessed. He broke up thoughts into separate sentences, his pregnant pauses seemed like they took nine months to end and he repeated the same crap he's been saying for the last two years. I mean parrots aren't trained that well. He even corrected his past by first saying that Saddam was a threat then he said, "I think what I used was Saddam was a gathering threat." What in the world was that? If anybody ever again questions me about marching on Saturday, I will point them in the direction of this disaster we call President. We have to get this man out of office-- he is the worst!

You know....the definition.

RC

he wants the title and have others doing things the way he wants it. However to be Prez he has to explain his thinking/logic to the masses and I don't think he cares to do that.

I bet he can't wait for his term/s to end. This job is so above him.

n/t

I missed it on television.

:)

how can a transcript show 'dead air'?

"Um . . . (pause) . . . er . . . (pause) . . . ah . . . Melvin Belli?"

Has anyone mentioned how embarrassing this was (apparently, since I didn't see it. I'm relying on you fine folks)?

But with the messages on this board, now we know why he never gives formal press conferences.

So can you promise the American people that there will be less troops in Iraq next Summer?

Bush's reply"That's a trick question and I'm not going to answer it."

I wonder if he'll start designating all questions as being ones of trickery, the closer the election gets.

When are the press going to all loudly groan at one of his answers or follow up with "its a trick question???? when our soldiers leave Iraq is a TRICK QUESTION? What are you? a moron?? Yeah, I know. When hell freezes over.

Each time he shows up it simply gets worse. He was poor to begin with.

How can anyone in their right mind vote for this fraud in 2004?

thanks to the time difference in Hawai'i! I thought I was having another nightmare about some brain-dead idiot stealing an election and pretending to be President...

Cripes, what if Lieberman gets the nomination? Here's your debate transcript:

Bush*: Ummmmm.... um..... ummmm....

Lieberman (doing his David Hartman impression): Duh...... duh... duh.....

Is CSPAN replaying this tonight, what about the Democratic debate? Let me stop being lazy and check their schedule.

as he was reading the statement - like he was really out of it. When it came to answering questions, he did the usual - nothing.

I cannot believe outside his immediate family that anybody can support this worthless shit.

It seems like the reporters were given the questions in advance. Bush acted like he was jumping ahead when he called on a reporter.

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

If we had that as a part of the process, Bush could never get elected. At the very least, his approval ratings would be in the low 20s.

But to the believers he looks fine.