I'm still baffled: Bush delivered his RNC speech without any huge verbal

[Guy Fawkes]

screw ups! How long do you think he had to practice that?

[volosong]

1. Most of this year.

[TrustingDog]

2. i think ventriloquism has been perfected - that may be....

where part of that missing trillion is - R&D.

[Cleita]

3. He was sobered up for a couple of days, I'll bet.

When he stumbles on his tongue and leans on the podium with that goofy monkey look on his face, like he's having a hard time concentrating, I think he is either drunk, medicated or both. Yet, I have on occasion heard almost normal speech when he seems more alert than usual. I think that they sober him up for those occasions.

[Lindacooks]

4. He practiced and practiced and practiced

for more than a week. Note, however, that Senator Kerry spent more than a week WRITING his speech.

The chimp couldn't write himself out of a paper bag.

[R3dD0g]

5. The Disney Imagineers are getting better everyday. n/t

[Lovecrafty]

7. Yeah! It was all CGI! The RNC hired Dreamworks!!!

[NewHampshireDem]

6. Well, considering that he read it 8 syllables at a time ...

it isn't hard to believe. Honestly, the pace at which he read made it hard for him to screw up, though I do remember a couple of pretty clear stumbles.

[slappypan]

8. he is actually good at performing that type of speech

When it counts, he can pull it off. It's when the pressure is off that he gets sloppy, makes spurious comments, demeaning quips, etc.

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

9. He always speaks fine when he's scripted

He can read, he just can't speak on his feet without rote lines.

[UTUSN]

10. When He Read Something Was "Diluted", It Sounded Like "Tootle-oodled" n/t

[shraby]

11. How can a person screw up a speech

that only has one syllable words in it?

[Piperay]

12. It's nothing but

reading and memorization and apparently he is capable of that.

[T Bone]

13. It was one of his DOUBLES or a hologram

You don't think they have doubles for this guy?