WP: Bush Is Unexpected Loser in Tuesday's Debate

[Kadie]

Bush Is Unexpected Loser in Tuesday's Debate

By Dan Balz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, June 6, 2007; 2:56 PM

MANCHESTER, N.H., June 6 -- If there was an unexpected loser in Tuesday's Republican presidential debate, it was President Bush and his administration's record.

The Republican candidates offered repeated criticism of their Democratic opponents, but on issue after issue, they also shredded the president's performance over the past four years. Iraq? Badly mismanaged. Katrina? Bungled. Immigration? The wrong solution. Federal spending? Out of control.

The candidates struggled even to say they would welcome the president playing a role in their administrations should they win the White House in 2008. Former Wisconsin governor Tommy Thompson, who served as secretary of health and human services during Bush's first term, offered the unkindest cut.

"I certainly would not send him to the United Nations," he said to laughter from the heavily Republican audience at Saint Anselm College.

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[Arugula Latte]

1. Why do Republican presidential candidates hate 'Murika?

:cry:

[Lobster Martini]

2. What's the word "unexpected" doing in that headline?

No one saw that coming? When the President is mocked during a debate by Tommy Thompson, who might win the nomination for two reasons--voters might confuse him with the "Law and Order" Thompson guy and the sheer excitement generated within the GOP by the first Presidential candidate named "Tommy"--things are looking awfully bad.

[Swamp Rat]

3. The reptilian reps and their lizard drones received their new marching orders.

[Supersedeas]

4. Yuck

[Swamp Rat]

5. Thanks!

:D

[Merlot]

6. The laughter didn't seem that loud to me

On the clip I heard it sounded like a few chuckles, and most people took him seroiusly. It wasn't really delivered like a joke. Seem like most repubs don't have a sense of humor anyhow, espically when it comes to one of their own.

"I certainly would not send him to the United Nations," he said to laughter from the heavily Republican audience at Saint Anselm College.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

7. Umm, yes, bush is a death sentence to the Republicans

This is anything but unexpected.

[Cha]

8. Little fuck deserves

a lot worse. If this is all that happens to bush..he should consider himself one lucky sonava bitch.