I'm sure it will be transcribed if they can find someone who can translate stumbling.
Hotibob! I thought the same thing. A school kid giving vamping and BSing because he didn't study. What channel were the reactions shots on? Didn't see them.
Condi looked in pain, as I was.
I thought his basic message was that America is obligated to spread freedom. Is that what you are talking about Bill?
So it turns out the way it always does. The 'anybody but Bush' crowd heard what they wanted to hear. And the rest of us heard the strength, resolve, and determination we were hoping for.
And yes, he's a lousy extemporaneous speaker. That's just one of the reasons I believe what he says. He's not scripted or coached. He just lays it out there pretty much as I think he would speak one on one.
Brand X wrote:I'm sure it will be transcribed if they can find someone who can translate stumbling.
Transcript on ABCNews.com
EDIT: Sorry, that was just the transcript of the opening statement. Here's the
transcript of the entire news conference.
He looked like and performed worse than one of the losers on "The Apprentice." Is this reality TV gone haywire?
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OCCOM: Do you remember Vietnam ?
OUr government insisted we HAD to win that war, or communism would take over the world.
We lost tens of thousands of young Americans becsuse of the stubborness of our leaders who would not admit their mistake.
Invading Iraq unilaterally was a mistake. The region is MORE unstable than ever. We cannot bear the costs, financial and human, of what has the potential to become another Vietnam.
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Is anyone here old enough to remember Captain Queeg? And the clicking balls in his hands that moved more frenetically as he became less and less rational?
This is the leader of the free world....?
LW, they should not have let him out without his tenders.
Foxfyre wrote:And yes, he's a lousy extemporaneous speaker. That's just one of the reasons I believe what he says. He's not scripted or coached. He just lays it out there pretty much as I think he would speak one on one.
Bush is most definitely scripted and coached. He just can't remember his lines.
To be fair, this should not be about scoring points on the "other side."
Spread freedom, kickycan? What is the bejaysus does that mean? That is a total sixty-ish construct. How do you spread freedom?
Then way he articulate spreading freedom it sounded more like a virus.
Not scripted and coached? Celebrate Christmas this year by setting up a Naivety Scene.
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We did not have to invade the Soviet Union to spread freedom. The flaws in their system, coupled with Coca-cola, blue jeans and TV, brought them down. It took time, but eventually, it was an economic war that we won against The Evil Empire of communism, not a military one.
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