Mistake prompts Bush redo

[sabra]

http://www.kbzk.com/Global/story.asp?S=4737060

Mistake prompts Bush redo

<snip>

President Bush has just gotten done talking about Iraq, and meant to comment on immigration -- but instead, mistakenly started on another topic.

The president began a statement to reporters outside Air Force One by saying he was pleased Republicans and Democrats were working together to get a bipartisan, comprehensive "energy" bill.

He realized his mistake, stopped talking and said, "Let me start over."

The president nailed it the second time around, saying he was pleased lawmakers are working together on an "immigration bill."

[saltpoint]

1. It was the booze talkin'.

[sinkingfeeling]

2. Aw, isn't that cute? The 4 year old couldn't remember his lines and

got a do-over.

[livetohike]

3. Reminds me of school plays in elementary school

He varied from the script and had to start over :eyes:

[rkc3]

4. Maybe he was thinking of burning immigrants in coal-fired plants

to generate electricity.

[C_U_L8R]

5. he must have been thinking about something else

like saving his ASS

[BrotherBuzz]

6. LOL, faulty chip implant?

:rofl:

[mike_c]

11. borg communcation glitch....

Must of been sunspots or something.

[VaYallaDawg]

7. "Energy" ... "immigration" ... everybody's being so picky on

poor li'l ole George. Now y'all stop it or he'll go get his Momma and then you WILL be sorry.

[ClintonTyree]

8. What a putz!

Why aren't more Americans totally ashamed of this ignorant cretin representing us? Seeing Americans willing to accept this behavior as a representation of our country makes me physically ill. WE CAN DO BETTER! MUCH BETTER! The village idiot is our president!

[gratuitous]

9. Did Ronnie leave any of his cue cards behind?

Maybe it's time for Stupidhead to start having folks with placards stand in front of him for what he should say. So difficult for Chimpy to hold onto more than one thought at a time.

[trogdor]

16. Ronald Reagan didn't need no stinkin' cue cards.

He was often full of shit, but he could at least talk, forchrissakes.

[Zenlitened]

20. Which Ronald Reagan are you referring to?

The one I observed couldn't talk AT ALL without a script. He was a doddering, stammering idiot when confronted with a question where he didn't have some lines ready for delivery.

His advantage over lil' Georgie? Reagan knew how to memorize his lines.

:puke:

[Lone_Star_Dem]

10. Stress can do that to a person

Make them forget their train of thought like that. I wonder what he could be preoccupied with?

[NYC]

12. While visions of sugarplums dance in my head,

Bush is preoccupied with this:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=860958&mesg_id=861438

He, himself, called it criminal.

[superconnected]

13. immigration and energy aren't too phonetically off. When I'm half awake at

meetings, I do that sometimes. It's nice he figured out the mistake.

Wouldn't it be cool if he fully woke up. I mean instead of giving us these Teri shiavo blinks moments.

Okay, sick analogy.

[monarch]

14. I can identify with that

I misheard McKinney apology as McClellan apology and thought "that was quick!"

[drm604]

15. C'mon, give him a break.

It wasn't his fault. It was the guy reading his lines through the earpiece!

[htuttle]

17. Ashley Simpson once made the same mistake on SNL

Did Bush do a little jig, too?

[Vickers]

18. Hey, he gets a Mulligan!

:rofl:

I just hope he isn't thinking about grinding up immigrants and using them as fuel. :(

[htuttle]

19. Now that would be a Modest Proposition

:evilgrin:

[Sparkly]

21. Speech Mistake Prompts Bush Do-Over

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Cameras were rolling. Microphones were on.
President Bush stepped up to comment on a Senate compromise on immigration legislation.

Wait. Was it energy or immigration?

Maybe Bush had rising gas prices on his mind when he said he was pleased that Republicans and Democrats were working together to get a bipartisan, comprehensive "energy" bill.

Realizing his mistake, he stopped and called for a Take 2.

"Let me start over," Bush said, standing next to Air Force One.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060406/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_take2;_ylt=AvhQqBhscAweUgSBWiFVc2Zp24cA;_ylu=X3oDMTA5aHJvMDdwBHNlYwN5bmNhdA--

[tuvor]

22. "Let me start over." Ha.

At January 2000, I'll bet he's thinking.

[Lisa]

25. yes, by all means -- let's go back to Nov 2000, and sub in Al Gore!

Works for me.

[babylonsister]

23. He really is a nimrod; his brain synapses must be

misfiring. No surprise there, it's been going on for years!

[MidwestTransplant]

24. HE doesn't even know what he's saying.