I didn't think Bush's speach was exceptionally bad

[RobertFrancisK]

It's nothing really. The guy says the exact same thing everytime he talks. I've heard the same speach for the last year and a half. He looks like a robot when he talks, he evokes no emotion whatsoever. Reagan was at least a great orator and evoke a lot of emotion and feeling in his speachs, Bush just reads from the telepromter in a monotone voice while staring straight ahead. It's just depressing to think we have such a tool as president. When Bush does talk with passion, he looks like the village drunk, swaggering over the podium, talking like a cowboy. This man isn't presidential material, bottom line.

[paulsbc]

1. i thought the same thing

and actually Powell on MTP had the same speech, but did it in 30 seconds on Russert :)

[bigendian]

2. Did you notice this?

He delivered his obviously well rehearsed speech straight to the camera yet would occasionally turn over a sheet of paper that he had never looked at! Creepy.

[Hanuman]

10. I wonder if his pages are being projected into

a teleprompter? And this is a way of controlling the (glacial) pace of his speech?

Why else would he turn pages he wasn't looking down at?

[Beetwasher]

3. It needed to be exceptionally good though

In order to stem the tide and stop the free-fall he needed to hit a homerun and this was a bunt...

[Hawkeye-X]

6. A bunt that went straight into the catcher's glove

YERRRR OUT!

[bobthedrummer]

4. I didn't watch or hear it.

eom

[StandWatie]

5. I caught part of it...

The hubris of creating an anarchistic, playground for international terrorists out of the homes of millions of people who were completely innocent and then telling everyone that they had to come play in his new hellhole or they were immoral somehow made me want to wretch.

[RichM]

7. It's natural that a right-leaning Democrat wouldn't see what was

"exceptionally bad" with the speech. Right-leaning Congressional Democrats like Biden, after all, pretty much support the whole invasion & occupation.

What this shows is not that there was nothing "exceptionally bad" in the speech. Rather, it shows there is something exceptionally bad in the worldview of Right-leaning Democrats.

[DemExpat]

9. I think the poster was saying Bush's speeches are

ALWAYS exceptionally bad.......

DemEx

[RobertFrancisK]

13. What the fck?

Right leaning democrat?? Can't say I've heard that one before.
If you read my post, I was saying that Bush has had the same stump speach for almost 2 years now, therefore I wasn't as offended by it as I usually am because he didn't say anything at all that could possibly be seen as good or bad, just standard Bush. It was more depressing that he had put no new thoughts into his speech.

[Jacobin]

8. Amazing that when the president gives a speech and its not considered

"exceptionally bad" that there is cause for comment.

Lower the bar enough and a baboon yelping and hollering will get good marks.

[sandnsea]

11. How much worse could it be?

The righties really love him swaggering cowboy mode. So dolt on a stick didn't win him any points last night.

You've heard the same speech for the last year and a half? I don't think so, but you sure haven't heard $87 billion come out of GWB's mouth, well unless he's giving it away to his rich buddies.

I didn't hear keep WMD from the terrorists or WMD at all. I heard terrible weapons. I heard we aren't making progress and Iraq could turn into an all out war, the 'frontline of freedom' or whatever such. And I also heard alot of room for spin against the UN and anybody else who won't help defend the 'civilized world'.

This was bad on so many levels and the more I think of it, the worse it gets.

[Warren Stuart]

12. The only time he shows any life in his public appearances

Is when he's talking about death, or punishment. He's a cheerleader he's only comfortable when everyone is clapping when he speaks. To him leadership is when you are exhorting your side to smash the other side.

[w4rma]

14. A Point-By-Point Response to Bush's Speech by WilliamPitt

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=295972

[Yupster]

15. I thought

the only purpose was to get the $ 87 billion number in the record, so if he's criticized for it during the campaign, he can say that he's been up-front and honest through the whole debate, and even went on tv to tell everyone the cost rather than trying to hide it.