Summarize the Monkey's "performance" last night... he's getting panned

[npincus]

on "Morning Joe"... someone said it looked like a hostage tape. What about last night was different or worse than every other cue-card reading by America's Worst President Ever?

[MrModerate]

1. He's always been a sack of shit . . .

But now people are ever-more comfortable acknowledging it. Also, the lame duck syndrome is kicking in big time.

[obiwan]

2. Bush doesn't give a shit. There's nothing in it for him.

[Indenturedebtor]

3. I bet there's a 20 million dollar speaking tour in it for him

Watch, if ANYONE pays to hear that infantile shit for brains maul the english language for an audience - it's payback for political favors.

[npincus]

5. I must disagree... I believe that without the power of the

presidency behind him, he will be universally rejected as a pariah, who almost destroyed his own political party, hated by the rest.

[Indenturedebtor]

7. It's not about them liking/respecting him

It's just one of the ways that our politicians are bribed.

[WinkyDink]

18. He doesn't care. "History? We'll all be dead."

George W. Bush, when asked by Bob Woodward "how is history likely to judge your Iraq war?" replied, "History, we don't know. We'll all be dead." (Woodward Shares War Secrets, CBS News, 60 Minutes, April 18, 2004).

[WinkyDink]

16. NO WAY is Incurious George WORKING after this term! He's GOT his billions.

[npincus]

29. and a homestead in Paraguay

(it is Paraguay, right?)

[deminks]

4. I thought he was ice cold, talking to his rich cronies, not the American people.

He lost his drawl, used big words, and talked real fast. These were no words of comfort, no "dead or alive". He blamed us, not one word about deregulation.

The "hostage tape" comment really summed it up for me. We're the hostage. Congress pays his cronies or off with our heads.

[Political Tiger]

6. I didn't watch it

Watching Dumbya speak literally makes me sick!

[PetrusMonsFormicarum]

8. What was with the creaking podium?

Sounded like Chimpy had eaten the #3 from Taco Bell for dinner.



Looks like it went right through him, too.

[ladjf]

15. It sounded like someone was snoring. It cracked me up.

[WinkyDink]

19. Thanks for the Loathsome Pic of the Day.

[Starry Messenger]

9. I watched a little last night (husband turned it on)

and my first thought was "He obviously hates all of us." He takes absolutely no joy in being a part of the American experience. He is a clueless scold. The parts I saw were just mean (as in small of soul).

[WinkyDink]

20. Bush has ALWAYS hated us. He's KILLED THOUSANDS of us, e.g. He resents actually losing in 2000.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

10. To thy own self be true

After seeing John McDildo in action George Bush* looks like Winston Churchill...If you took Bush* out of a presidential setting I think he would be a half decent guy...

[WinkyDink]

22. If you liking hanging around psychopathic mass murderers, he's your guy!

Take your beer with you to the men's room, though!

[CJCRANE]

11. * seems disconnected from his own presidency

as though somehow he isn't potentially the most powerful man in the world but a passive victim of circumstance who hasn't been doing (or able to do) anything for the last 8 years.

[kedrys]

12. I thought he read abnormally well

which to me means they tweaked his meds again. I'm thinking speed or cocaine, since his nose whistled and he sounded like he was gripping the lectern outside the camera's field - that weird noise we heard was a lot like sweaty hands on lacquered wood.

[terrya]

13. He read the big words off the teleprompter reasonably...acceptable.

I was wondering why he gave the speech from the East Room instead of the Oval Office. Was it supposed to make him look Presidential or something?

[DeeDeeNY]

14. Just remember, he got an MBA from Harvard

That is quite scary, IMHO.

[EstimatedProphet]

17. America's paying attention this time - that's what's different

He said the same kinds of things he always does, but people are waking up thanks to the election.

[daggahead]

21. I must say ...

He did use some big grown-up words last night.

[seabeyond]

23. husband (repug) says he was very bad, in that he used keywords

that no responsible pres would use. we are changing names on one of our cds this morning and hubby is pulling another cd to put in another bank so will be covered by insurance if there is a run on the banks. that is what he got in feel from pres last night. i didnt watch. he said his tone and words used could "create" a problem

[CJCRANE]

24. It's the "financial 9/11".

Both this crisis and the original 9/11 were set up to terrorize the taxpayer into handing over a blank check.

[seabeyond]

28. that is the feel i get with it too. and a ploy to help out mccain, .... bush speech last nite.

i agree

[Jennicut]

25. He looked pale and wan. Like he had a hangover.

[mscuedawg]

26. I didnt really appreciate "Finances 101" speech...

by the highest seat in the land who helped get us in this mess simply by doing NOTHING when it was "just" the little people losing their piddly $150k houses....

[Alter Ego]

27. I forgot he was still President.

[Virginia Dare]

30. True. You could just picture Paulson behind him with a gun in his back..

give us the money or everybody gets it!

This is actually the first shrub speech I've ever watched in it's entirety, and I actually enjoyed it. I enjoyed watching him up there trying to squirm his way out of this.