Obama speaks better off the cuff? C'mon... that's been one of his biggest criticisms. He stammers, hesitates, etc.
I didn't say he was amazing, but he's better than Bush. He does stammer, umm, hesitate and whatnot but he still manages to pull off sounding more polished, knowledgeable and authoritative than Bush. Content of either ones public speaking aside if you asked me how much each one stumbled Bush was worse. I have different problems listening to both of them. Bush could be hard to understand at times but the worst part was just how bad he was at speaking, conveying power and motivation, and how he seemed to often fail to understand the questions or would give answers that lacked insight. Obama may sound a bit more polished and confident but his content can suffer from similar problems. While he can't talk your ear off without saying nothing like Palin did he can still go on too long while talking around his point without getting to it for a while. And like any president he will deflect questions and answer something else. It makes the debates useless to me for determining much more than their presence and personality.
This is where you I go wrong.
how can you admire Bush looking like a moron every time he opened his mouth?!?!
The difference between you and I is that regardless of my dislike for someone, or my disagreement with someone, I do my very best not to make silly blanket statements like that. You may disagree with Bush and you're one of the haters... I get all that. Calling our President a moron or suggesting he's a moron, or saying he's always looking like a moron... is that left style rhetoric which just reeks of false pompus arrogance as if you (not you specifically) are somehow privy to some higher understanding and that anyone who disagrees "just doesn't get it" somehow.
That's not a tactic reserved for the left so I suggest you avoid making blanket statements as well
Don't even try to make anyone think the media didn't have everything to do with Bush's approval ratings.
The media does a great job of going on about everything, be it Bush's bad speeches or approval ratings or Clinton's infidelity (and subsequent lying which
is bad), or Howard Dean's "yell."
Congress dropped the ball and it's all Bush's fault, yet he would have had little power to get a Democratic Congress to do what he wanted in hte best of times.
Two sides to that as well, when Bush has a Congress that backed him it wasn't like things were good either. Both of them screwed us but in different ways. The majority of his time in office he had a Republican Congress.
You do know that the Democratic Congress is about as mule-like as they come, right? They're far from being interested in what's right for the country and much more attentive to what makes their party look good.
This was good for a giggle, thanks. They're all like that though not just the Democrats. I forget who said it but the people you want in politics won't run and the people who want to be in politics are the last you want holding power.
Yeah, Bush screwed up- they all do. Iraq is more of a quagmire than it would have been if Congress hadn't started to micro-manage it.
But it was quite the quagmire and fueled by plenty of misconception before Congress micromanaged it as well.
