Posted on 03/22/2006 2:42:48 PM PST by mathprof
President Bush had a senior moment midway through his news conference yesterday. Referring to an earlier question from the Los Angeles Times' Jim Gerstenzang, who has covered much of Bush's presidency, Bush looked at the veteran correspondent -- and forgot his name.
"Back, to, uh, this man's question right here," he said, and then he looked down at his seating chart for a refresher before adding: "This man being Jim."
"Sorry, Jim," the president said after everybody had a chuckle at his expense. "I got a lot on my mind these days."
That he does. Bush's presidency is in trouble, his approval ratings are in the 30s, Iraq is approaching civil war, and congressional Republicans are in open rebellion. But Bush has maintained his equanimity. He may be a lame duck, but he seems to be enjoying his swim.
He identified Terry Hunt, the Associated Press's veteran White House correspondent, as the generic "AP Person." He accused New York Times correspondent Elisabeth Bumiller of sleeping through his speech Monday in Cleveland. After USA Today's David Jackson interrupted a Bush non-answer, the president queried: "Now, what is your follow-up yell?"
And he made a show of reading from his stage directions. Rambling his way through a question about interest rates, Bush paused to confess, "I'm kind of stalling for time here." Checking his seating chart before calling on a questioner, he confided, "They've told me what to say." After announcing that "there's going to be a P-5," the president translated his own jargon: "That's diplomatic sloganeering."
Whether it's the strain of the office, the weight of international crises, or simply his old Delta Kappa Epsilon roots showing, Bush has been President Punchy of late.
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What stellar journalism. He pulls a bunch of disjointed quotes out of context and then cites the collection as proof that the answers were disjointed and lacked context.
I LOATHE dana milbank. He is an ignorant moron.
nonsense.. Hillary's "I don't recall" moment out does anything in recent memory
In trouble only in the drugged and alcohol dazed brains of the media.
Here is a pic of wanker boy
More propaganda from the DNC, I mean the WAPO, paid for by George Soros and the other america-haters. Politics of personal destruction, under the guise of "journalism". God, these people make me sick.
I'll bet Bush could name dozens of family members of fallen soldiers.......
why would he even waste his time with media whores?
the press think that they are celebrities. maybe they should report the news and stop trying to be the news.
Sheesh, what a pathetic article. It bugs the hell out of Dems that President Bush can make a crowd chuckle, and that he is good at self-depricating humor. Dana Milbank: "Waaa, I wanted to insult you, but you just went and made a funny about yourself first!"
Yeah, sure it is. The WaPo said so...
Milbank better pray his readers didn't see or don't have a chance to see that presser.
The presidents statement that "they told me what to say" did catch my attention during the press conference. It was out of context and I wondered what he was referring to. As for the rest of the news conference, I thought he kicked a$$.
What a chicken sh** piece of propaganda from this fool....
Its better to have PresBush engaging the press on his terms and as often as possible, then to allow the media malcontents like Dana Milbank any opportunity to spin events based on their anti-Bush agenda. I'd still like to see Dan Bartlett and Scott McClellan replaced. These two PR underlings are very weak, and aren't helping Bush get his message out to the people.
LOL...the whole time I was reading this...I pictured him looking like Elmer Fudd....
therefore, it was the joke he is.
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