Was Bush REALLY that bad?

[Jack_Dawson]

I'm at work...but...isn't EVERY shrub press conference disasterous? Then they cut to the talking whores who spin about his "commanding" and "decisive" performance. Then they play the one clip where he sounds semi-coherent, and then that's the end of it, right?

What was so bad about THIS press conference versus every other one?

Feed the cuberats...we need it.

JD

[Thrill]

1. He did what he usually does

He didn't answe questions. And as usual he was awful and the talking heads think he did fine. YAWN

[chimpymustgo]

9. Exactly. We saw the NAKED EMPEROR, but the corporate media

and his fawning bots will assure us of the beauty of the cut, the fineness of the cloth, of *'s new suit.

[Supersedeas]

26. the most beautiful thread that a SOUND BITE can buy

[Norquist Nemesis]

2. You decide...

MSNBC now on with Meeks (D) and Smith (R) discussing Allawi's speech to Congress.

Question: Senator Smith, a lot of people believe that Allawi has gotten involved in the campaign and gave a speech designed to re-elect President Bush. ...

[Texas_Dem]

8. There ya go.

That is what my impression is as well. Allawi has reduced himself to no more than a political operative for Shrub.

[Norquist Nemesis]

14. And the nice thing is the media's asking the question

and putting it out there! :)

[notadmblnd]

3. link to discussion

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x888165

[sonicx]

4. i'm at school and i can't wait to get home to hear it

i hope randi and j garofalo play some of it too.

[The Chronicler]

5. Oh it was pretty awful, but I doubt it gets much coverage.

Too much Dan Rather and Laci Peterson news right now.

[FatSlob]

6. He did OK.

nothing great, nothing awful. a thoroughly average performance in the six or seven minutes I caught. He doesn't have the ability to get people to really listen to him, he isn't a good speaker, just average. Think high-school speech class.

[Clinton Crusader]

10. huh???? did you see the same one I did???

:kick:

[FatSlob]

12. I caught a bit between trips to the grill.

I caught snippets totaling about six or seven minutes, Alawi talking included. The portions I caught seemed totally average. Just like high school. Didn't seem like a polished speaker, just seemed average.

[Sparkly]

15. No way -- it was disastrous!!

I didn't see the beginning, but in the portion I heard he said:

- The right-direction/wrong-direction polls in Iraq are better than they are here.

- The army that went into Najaf is an Iraqi army.

- It's important to be clear so Iraqis don't get mixed messages, "That's why I gotta be as clearly as I can."

- He doesn't really know what's happening in Iraq because he's not there, he's here in America where it's 'nice and safe.'

I'm sure there was more.

[Lancer]

7. Dubya is a walking, talking version

of the "shuffle" feature on your CD player.

"These people want freedom/this is hard work/We can't turn back/give in/negotiate with terrists/We are safer."

He was also blindsided by a question about Gen. Abizaid asking for more troops. Whoa! Straight up props to ABC's Terry Moran for that one, I think. . .

[rock]

11. No

It was much worse than "that bad"

[Francine Frensky]

13. America's First Retarded President

The only people still voting for him didn't watch this.

[ellie]

21. LOL!

I'm sorry I missed it! I'll have to check the replay.

[Clinton Crusader]

16. David Gregory is on IMUS alot, maybe tom. AM

:kick:

[slappypan]

17. "um ... uh ... 9/11 changed everything ...

terror tactics ... I seen it ... can't sent mixed messages to our troops ..." With the no-neck Iraqi (Saddam 2.0?) standing next to him grinning ... it was pretty bad. He has been good with scripted bs he dishes out on the campaign trail, but he seeemed lost today.

[Jack_Dawson]

18. How embarrassing

Seriously. How stupid do we look if this moron gets re-elected?

[democratreformed]

19. Pretty damn stupid, IMO. Like I said many times, if that happens,

God help us ---- somebody needs to.

[mimitabby]

20. so based on what you saw guys

do you think the chimp is going to be able to polish his form up for the debates?
or is the suggestion that he is in early onset alzheimers looking more accurate??

[rocktivity]

22. Check it out at cspan.org

http://www.cspan.org

Click on "Pres. Bush & Interim Iraqi P.M. Iyad Allawi Joint Press Conference (09/23/2004)" The questions start at the 19:45 mark.

:headbang:
rockantion

[Jack_Dawson]

23. I'm listening

I can't believe D. Gregory actually grew a pair. Are there any other good questions?

[BootinUp]

24. watching it on cspan.org, its bad Jack, heh

The media is putting him under a lot of pressure, more than I have seen in a long time. I think the latest polls have emboldened them. Wait till you see it, he embarrassingly tries to find an Iraqi journalist because the Americans are tryin to kick the shit out of him.

[elf]

25. that's what I saw too!!!!

he was somehow helpless and got a heavy load from the American journalists!

[pacalo]

27. Other than the fact that he isn't a presidential speaker,

there was nothing that I saw extraordinary about it. Don't waste your time watching it: the coWard-in-chief was simply presenting an overly-optimistic view of Iraq to the press. That was the only thing I could term as "bizarre" about it.

[discopants]

28. Transcript link here

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/09/20040923-8.html

[cyr330]

29. A blithering idiot, as usual

Just watching his ugly face makes me ill. One would think that a person of such modest abilities would be ashamed to stand in front of the world and talk as if he merited being President of the U.S. He made a complete and total ass of himself. No, I take that back. He IS a complete and total ass, and he just reinforced what all of us (except clueless Repukes) already knew. How the fuck can any Republican stand behind him? Jesus Christ. The man is an utter failure in EVERY regard AND he's an idiot to boot.