I heard a clip of gwb's radio address. He's not even trying, anymore.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

He was reading off his script in a hurried, "get it over with", manner. Not even his usual pathetic attempt to seem engaged in the words he was speaking. (you know, the weird cadence he speaks with emphasizing the wrong words) Now, he has a "why bother" tone.

I think he needs all this time at the "ranch" to train for the inauguration. Somehow, he has to give a coherent inaugural speech and probably needs intensive coaching for the next few weeks. MKJ

:puke:

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

1. Pat Buchanan's prediction...

About Chimpy's approval numbers ending up in the low 40% range may be too generous. If this sort of thing carries on, people will get it. If he "moves on" they will do the same.

[The Backlash Cometh]

3. How can a candidate's numbers hit rock bottom even before

he even gets inaugurated? I don't believe for one second that people just suddenly woke up in the last two months. This just means to me, that Kerry really won and the media has been in control from the beginning. They lied about Bush's poll numbers before the election, and now they're going to let the real numbers show in an effort to temper Bush's swelled head.

I lose respect for this country, day by day.

[pretzel4gore]

13. 911 burnt their bridges on them!

the media somehow bacame reactionary in defiance of a country moving the other way and went after bill clinton until their souls became maggoty infested by the time of the so called inpeachment....they went on to secure the presiduncy for geeb bush (brother of floriduh guv john ellis, or 'jeb') and it was all chuckles and laffs until...sept 11/01 when the mediawhores realized bushinc had trapped the slimy souless pigs on wrong side of the river! (the rubicon?) they have no choice but to 'press on to total victory or total ruin' as trotsky famously said after lenin had the czar and his family murdered in 1917 russia.....if bush goes down for his blatant crimes the entire mass media will be in up to their chins too!

[Supersedeas]

12. maybe you underestimate the political apathy of the 'Merican public

much more than thirty or fourty percent misses his scripted radio dates.

[the_bidenator]

21. Bush will probably have to....

go to a shrink after he leaves office. His personality and self-worth has been torn to shreads for the past 4 years.

[Ironpost]

2. The Emperor speaks

[rock]

4. How can you tell?

bushsucks* always stuck me as a pathetic incompetent bastard, hardly capable of showing any "trying" at all.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

6. Amazingly, he sounded even more pathetic and incompetent than ever.

I thought it was so evident over the past four years that it wasn't worth remarking on, however, this address was almost farcical in its "reading as fast as I can to get it over with" sound.

He was addressing the tsunami disaster, and could not have sounded less interested. BTW, he ordered flags to fly at half staff next week. No additional funds were pledged though. gwb is the king of empty gestures. MKJ

[havocmom]

11. Reading fast? Coke for Christmas?

hmmm, on the 'ranch' and out of reach...

[Dudley_DUright]

5. Here is his pathetic attempt to express condolences

to the families of those lost in the tsunami without a script.

"It's a time of sorrow and sadness when we lose a loss of life."—Washington, D.C., Dec. 21, 2004

Anyone in my wife's second grade class could do better than this.

http://slate.msn.com/id/2111461/

[itzamirakul]

18. Everytime this idiot opens his mouth,...

I thank God that my parents were not blood relatives.

Like mother, like son
Both, uncaring and dumb.

[Contrary1]

23. Gee...Thanks for posting that link.

Just like going by an automobile accident, I couldn't resist the urge to look, knowing all along I may end up regretting it.
Are you happy now? Somehow, I had managed to miss the following gems...before today, that is.

"They can get in line like those who have been here legally and have been working to become a citizenship in a legal manner."—Referring to immigrant workers, Washington, D.C., Dec. 20, 2004

"And so during these holiday seasons, we thank our blessings. ... "—Fort Belvoir, Va., Dec. 10, 2004

"I always jest to people, the Oval Office is the kind of place where people stand outside, they're getting ready to come in and tell me what for, and they walk in and get overwhelmed by the atmosphere. And they say 'man, you're looking pretty.' "—Washington, D.C., Nov. 4, 2004

"I believe that, as quickly as possible, young cows ought to be allowed to go across our border."—Ottawa, Nov. 30, 2004

"They can get in line like those who have been here legally and have been working to become a citizenship in a legal manner."—Referring to immigrant workers, Washington, D.C., Dec. 20, 2004

"And so during these holiday seasons, we thank our blessings. ... "—Fort Belvoir, Va., Dec. 10, 2004

"I always jest to people, the Oval Office is the kind of place where people stand outside, they're getting ready to come in and tell me what for, and they walk in and get overwhelmed by the atmosphere. And they say 'man, you're looking pretty.' "—Washington, D.C., Nov. 4, 2004

"I believe that, as quickly as possible, young cows ought to be allowed to go across our border."—Ottawa, Nov. 30, 2004


"The president and I also reaffirmed our determination to fight terror, to bring drug trafficking to bear, to bring justice to those who pollute our youth"—Speaking with Chilean President Ricardo Lagos, Santiago, Chile, Nov. 21, 2004

"We thought we were protected forever from trade policy or terrorist attacks because oceans protected us."—Speech to business leaders at APEC Summit, Santiago, Chile, Nov. 20, 2004

"I didn't join the International Criminal Court because I don't want to put our troops in the hands of prosecutors from other nations. Look, if somebody has done some wrong in our military, we'll take care of it. We got plenty of capability of dealing with justice."—Niceville, Fla., Aug. 10, 2004

There's more, but I just couldn't take it.

[calimary]

26. "...when we lose a loss of life"? And 51 percent of the people love this

guy. Good God. "...when we lose a loss of life." My cat is more coherent. I'm amazed, day by day, how deep my loathing reaches.

[Gyre]

7. He doesn't need to do shit.

They now know how to steal elections and get away clean with it. Why does he need to worry about what The People think?

Gyre

[Nothing Without Hope]

8. "Winning" the election was the only thing he had to do.

His ability to be coherent and to speak actual sentences, let alone get the facts right, seems to be eroding all the time. How far will this go until the MSM is allowed to report on it at last and they start pushing for Cheney to take over the Presidency? He's already been running the show, but he could not have won the election as President even with the cheating. Padding numbers by 30% would have been harder to hide.

[Clark2008]

9. He must have know the people he REALLY cares about...

the corporate shills... aren't listening this morning.

[Laughing Mirror]

10. You'd probably want to hurry through it too

if you knew there wasn't anybody going to listen to it anyway, so why bother?

Cheers to you BleedingHeart for having, in addition to your heart, a stomach strong enough to take Bush speaking.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

25. I just caught a snippet of it on our local news...

I don't think I could listen to the entire address if my life depended on it. MKJ

[Tony_Illinois]

14. I agree with you--his heart certainly was not in it.

Regarding his time at the ranch--you better believe they are trying to get his sorry ass to focus both on the inauguration as well as the State of the Union speech later in January.

Unfortulately, he is just an empty slate that the neo-cons and religions nut cases all around him will fill with what matters to them. Not an original idea does this character ever have.

[ally_sc]

15. did not hear it but i don't doubt anything i have read here

it seems he thinks he has it all sewn up unless he is nervous about conyers investigation into the ohio mess...i wish someone would step forward.

[MasonJar]

16. I admire you for your perserverence in listening; I have to turn

off the radio in the car if they give a 15 second spot of some statement of the Stump; he literally makes me sick.

[AntiCoup2K4]

17. Uh, it's New Year's Day folks....

...Junior's probably got a Texas size hangover. Of course he's gonna sound like shit!

[fooj]

19. BWAAAHH!!! Too Funny!!!

A little salsa on them eggs???

WHAT ARE THEY HIDING???

[NVMojo]

20. when you work hard for something, you fight to keep it but when it gets

HANDED to you, you take it for granted. That is how he will go down....

[politicasista]

22. Shame on America

Smirky is rewarded for his incompetence and starting and illegal war by being re-selected. What a message to send to children. It's okay to reward incompetence, while it's not okay to preach about help/hope being on the way. :puke: :puke:

[nevergiveup]

24. Well said, sista