The lying bastard's voice is quavering.

We believe you Mr. LiarLiarPantsOnFire

Bush trying to hide behind "new information..." BUSHIT, Chimpyboy!

He is not a particularly gifted liar under pressure.

or he's not massaging the shoulders of the German head of state, he can't handle it.

that Cheney sent him out today.

He has all the traits of Narcissistic Personality Disorder, after all.

create this type of reaction. Subdued, tragic, stumbling, weakly doing the TP's, unable to muster anger.

You would think that the POTUS was addressing a heartrending crisis.

In this case- peace.

What would he look like if ready to resign or be impeached?

Damn, they should have put the screws to this guy years ago. Watch out if he becomes chipper again. Then you can prepare for another catastrophe he won't be so sad about.

He seems on the verge of breaking down and the fool's court chuckles, cajoles and otherwise is insanely supportive even as they, by the way, mention one disaster and issue after another that are all the worse for being inanely placed in softball mode.

that he has been discredited on the national stage. The NIE combines a wide range of intelligence groups, and each of them has contact with intelligence agencies in other countries. Unlike the British willingness to cooperate in the Big Lie (re: Downing Street Memo), this time I assume that countries including Russia and China were saying the lies wouldn't fly.

Iran is ah ah Iran

moral capacity to tell the truth, even when confronted with his lies.

ask bush why HIS republicans won't let the Democrats vote on the bill they have? And why doesn't one of the so called journalist ask him why he vetoed the first bill.

raise the issue of how we gave the Iranians GE nuclear reactors during the Shah's regime? What about AQ Khan?

weeping about Katrina or remembering the victims of 9/11 or sorrowful about the dead and wounded GI's and dead Iraqis. Expect him to cry any minute now.

So we're supposed to believe that NOT ONE PERSON in the intelligence community shared ONE PIECE of this information with this chimp until last week??? He's actually standing there and stating that he is so f*ing out of the loop, or so f*ing not paying attention or kept so far from real information that he didn't know?


Who, exactly, are they trying to fool?


So our foreign policy is now based on theoretical presumptions of what some country may be able to think about doing at some undetermined point in the future?

Oh my f*ing god, this sh*thead is amazing.

the press was still being a collective laprat. What is encouraging you?

TV on when he is speaking.... This guy just turns my stomach so badly that I need Pepto Bismol to settle it down...

my husband calls it my "cardio workout" every time he's on TV, and since my post-op instructions restrict me from any strenuos activity for another 6 weeks, I figure why risk it;)

I won't even have a negative bushit joke thing aound like some can have.. those crap things they sell with bush on tp or something. I don't want anything to remind me of what a loser a$$hole we have in the now converted chimphouse.

"McKinnah"

Comes natural with the territory.

The territory being Connecticut.

we are as embarrassed of him as you are - it is NOT OUR FAULT

quarrel with Connecticut at all.

In fact I'm looking for Ned Lamont to eventually take on Lieberman and we'll have a proper liberal in that Senate seat.

I blame Dubya for not sticking around, not Connecticut.

over a round of drinks. The soft questions are hilarious because they lob tremendous crises in order to say anything and the spin boy jyust gets dizzier, repetitive. Hardly has the heart to be even snippy. Looks more ready to cry.

This demeanor is very very good news that the war against Iran is really setback- for now. It all shows.
"Hard hard work." Aha, the BUSINESS world is putting the screws to him. Aha, the idiot by his choice of "opponents" to the Iran war BEGINS with them. It shows one of the columns of his power is gone.

Very good news for a very tortured nation.

He's still hung over.

and the reporter even noted it for the closer!

Nixon on the verge of resigning never behaved this poorly. The parade of soft questions on huge disasters and setbacks was like an unintentionally satircal chorus to his general depression.

All his compassion is reserved for himself. I consider this good news for peace and our nation. When Bush is genuinely chipper he is convinced we will be the ones to suffer.

What a weird press corps, but oddly their own tone kept him from sparking up or cuting things short.

Thanks is advance.

Total body and facial language depression. He fumbled around speculating about a future that he signaled was totally dismal and isolated and defined by defeat. He squinted back tears, couldn't get beyond the numbness or feeling for even set answers, seemed to forget and not really care what set response lead to another. The question about the Saudi girl he said made him think about his daughter. That extraordinary
awkward dealing with his Saudi buddies in a totally unanswerable question might have provided him cover for a few misinterpreted tears. It was so close.

Couldn't raise a glimmer of gloating about Chavez. All that was on Bush's mind was obviously very bad news- for him.

The reporter finally noted what the scripts can't see. Perhaps he was coaxing some sentimental walk to the exit. Bush tottered a bit down that lane, half-heartedly sputtering a few snippy denials and deflated talking points. That such a conference went on like this shows a breakdown all around Bush as well.

I've never seen anything like it.

papers that advance the agenda of Israel? We haven't seen the big picture yet, I believe.

a major enough influence to rival Bush's big money people. They can only coax him to gamble big against his real allies in business. He has never acted like he gave a damn about Israel's welfare, only as a policy tool.

I'd like to see the next one live if possible. It should be very entertaining to see Smirky taking heat with his tail between his legs.

Oh, he's probably devoting his whole day to a big self-pity jag. As numerous other posters have observed, he only cries when it's about HIM. Otherwise, he frisks around like Little Miss Sunshine when he's facing natural disaster victims, injured soldiers, death-row inmates about to be executed, and the grieving families of Americans killed overseas. He has the tactlessness to make stupid jokes about "looking for WMDs", but gets all sobby when someone gives him a cowboy hat. What a self-centered phony.

Although I admit that I'm kind of impressed that he managed to find his way to the lectern.

I found this interesting quote in a piece by Louis Dubose ("The making of a president: dressing like Johnson and acting like Reagan"), in the Austin Chronicle's coverage of the 2000 campaign. It describes an event at the Governor's mansion, where Bush was directed to follow "a path marked on
the hardwood floor with masking tape and ending with a masking tape arrow that pointed to the podium before him".