George speaks, badly

[flashl]

Watching George W. Bush address the New York financial community on Friday brought back many memories. Unfortunately, they were about his speech right after Hurricane Katrina, the one when he said: "America will be a stronger place for it."

"You've helped make our country really in many ways the economic envy of the world," he told the Economic Club of New York.

You could almost see the thought-bubble forming over the audience: Not this week, kiddo.

The president squinched his face and bit his lip and seemed too antsy to stand still. As he searched for the name of King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia ("the king, uh, the king of Saudi") and made guy-fun of one of the questioners ("Who picked Gigot?"), you had to wonder what the international financial community makes of a country whose president could show up to talk economics in the middle of a liquidity crisis and kind of flop around the stage as if he was emcee at the Iowa Republican Pig Roast.

We're really past expecting anything much, but in times of crisis you would like to at least believe your leader has the capacity to pretend he's in control.

IHT

[grannylib]

1. That little imbecilic imposter is nothing but an embarassment

to our nation. Listening to him trying to "speechify" is enough to make me nauseated. The smirk, the way he speeds up at the end of particularly mendacious statements, his inability to put together a coherent thought WITH a teleprompter, let alone ad lib...
what a fool.
He's gauche and uncouth and oddly arrogant for such a stupid fuck.

[cdsilv]

2. stupid fucks are always arrogant....

...that's why we know they are stupid.

If they kept their mouths shut, we might think they were at least average.

No insult to the average, I'm one of them.