So I haven’t really been all that political in this blog, but I was home yesterday and had President Bush’s press conference on the television for a bit. Wow, what an inarticulate human being.
Geezer that I am, I’ve lived through ten U.S. presidents. Every one of them, plus the two prior to my birth (FDR and Truman) spoke in front of radio and television microphones. They represented a lot of speaking styles, several different areas of the country, and a wide spectrum of political views.
In my entire life, there has never been a president who came across as a bigger babbling idiot than George W. Bush. When he speaks, he just seems to have trouble thinking up things to say. Yesterday’s press conference was no different. In the Washington Post today, Dana Milbank pointed out that W. conveyed nothing other than his own personal beliefs. Between babbling, stammering attempts to state his beliefs in the best words (using the phrase “in other words” no less than eleven times), he refused to answer any question directly.
The rest of the world has seen Bush as the personification of stupid Americans for several years now. On the German radio talk show SWR1 Leute, the Swiss cabaret artist Emil Steinberger expressed hopeful anticipation of the next American election, so that we’d get a decent president for a change.
Adam Curry’s Daily Source Code of February 13 opened with a (non-work-safe) song by Nice Peter that sums up my frustration and disgust with W. now. Put headphones on and listen to The Bush Song.
hey Dave
great blog & entry!
“The rest of the world has seen Bush as the personification of stupid Americans for several years now. ”
yeah this really seems to be the case – at least from the bit of travelling I have done over the past few years.
vote him/them/”their fear campaign” out!
This might only be a little related – I watched an interesting documentary the other day called “The Power of Nightmares”. The premise:
“Instead of delivering dreams, politicians now promise to protect us from nightmares.”
Link