Reply #3: Yes, I agree that something has happened to the man.

[cliss]

During the presidential debates last year, there was an article in Time magazine about the debates. It showed how Bush's "handlers" were stressing out over his performance. The photos showed a group of them, sitting in the back room, watching him on TV cameras. They were ....like wringing their hands, pacing back and forth.

When Bush was done, they lectured him, primped and prissed with him, straightening his collar, carefully trying to tell him he was sulking. Karen Hughes was there.

"I didn't sulk", he replied angrily.

They started over, trying desperately to put lipstick on an ugly, hairy pig. The 2nd debate was down the toilet. They started planning for debate #3. The article just went on like this, a slick, seasoned media crew, stuck with a babbling, stuttering idiot.

I don't envy them.