Bush looked like a fidgety 6th grader when he "took responsibility"

[TheCowsCameHome]

He looked like a 6th grader squirming in the principals office after being sent in for a detention. This is the leader of the greatest country in the world looking like a completely immature idiot on national/worldwide TV while "taking responsibility" for the slow response to the Gulf Coast disaster.

Squirming, slumping, mumbling your words, and looking away from the cameras just don't cut it, DimSon. Try standing up there and looking presidential for once - not that you are presidential - but just fake it now and then, since we are stuck with you.

You look more and more like a complete fool to the rest of the world.

[wake.up.america]

1. I noticed that as well. He had the other guy next to him...

Could not come out as a man and accept the responsibility and consequence for his inane behavior

[niceypoo]

16. He reminded me of a little kid who is forced to apologize

to another kid. He looked like it was the first time he had ever done it in his life. He was definitely uncomfortable with doing it. I saw zero sincerity.

[livetohike]

2. As a former sixth grade teacher, that's what I thought too!

Either that or he was sitting in the confessional, feeling guilty about something he had done wrong.

[zanne]

18. As a former sixth grader, I object!

I was smarter than that in the sixth grade!

[livetohike]

19. Where you in my class?

:-) I had a lot of smart kids :-).

[Skittles]

3. LOL if they worried about telling him to cut his vacation short

imagine the contortions they went through to pitch THIS PR stun to his majesty

[BlueJazz]

4. I was thinking (as he spoke)..."Christ, he reminds me of a Kid....

...that had stolen a candy bar and been forced by his parents to go
back to the store and apologize"
How Embarrassing...and THIS is what the Repugs call "A Strong Leader?"

[Kashka-Kat]

5. also name specifics

what exactly are you taking responsibility for? gutting fema & diverting $$$ to homeland insecurity? hiring an incompetent idiot? otherwise sounds too much like words for forms sake...

[atommom]

6. I thought he looked like a child who had just been dragged back into

the store by his mommy, to return the candy bar he stole and beg forgiveness. (And who, all the way home, kept muttering, "It's not fair!")

[BlueJazz]

7. LOL...Great minds think alike!

[atommom]

14. LOL! You're obviously brilliant.

:toast:

[Botany]

8. I heard "it" on the radio then saw it on TV ..... with no sound.

What struck me was his inability to look at the camera.

[Missy M]

9. bush looked like he had been beaten into submission.....

when he RELUCTANTLY 'took responsibility'.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

10. he did not do that willingly. To the contrary, it was forcefed to him

and he was NOT happy about it.

[TheCowsCameHome]

11. I'll bet Cheney was just off-camera whispering "Say it George, say it!"

[ChairmanAgnostic]

12. i wonder how many rewrites before he agreed to say it.

That was a carefully crafted message, which could easily be spun. I am SURE the first, second, tenth and 18th drafts were shitcanned by Bush, until the writers watered it down to where he would actually read it. under protest.

[atommom]

15. Dick had to use the shock collar again...

[quiet.american]

13. And the thing is, it wasn't even an apology he was squirming over

The wording was so dubious. If Bush had this kind of shrinking reaction in just saying the words I take responsibility, imagine if he were forced to really own up to his part in this.

Saying he takes responsibility to the extent the federal government made mistakes leaves him an opening big enough to back a rig through, because we can be sure any "investigations" he leads will absolve the federal government of almost all responsibility.

[zanne]

17. He needs a new acting coach. n/t

[peacetalksforall]

20. Do you get the feeling Rove is tied up in legal concerns and is not

there to orchestrate and coach?