I’m Stocking Up on Canned Goods
This snippet from today’s press conference with the President of the United States of America:
“I’ve discussed with Vladimir Putin some of his decisions. I will continue — as you might remember in our meeting in Chile. I will continue to do so. I will remind him that if he intends to continue to look West, we in the West believe in Western values.
I — you know, democracy is a, you know, progressed — you’ll see progress toward a goal. There won’t be instant democracy. And I remind people that our own country is a work in progress. You know, we — we — we declared all people equal, and yet all people weren’t treated equally for a century. We said, you know, everybody counts; but everybody didn’t count. ”
Is it really too much to ask that the “leader of the free world” be able to… well… talk?
January 26th, 2005 at 7:19 pm
Yes apparently it is. Because the election ratified everything about Bush, don’t you know?
Actually, in his first campaign, he bragged about how “plain” spoken he was. Meanwhile, McCain drove the “straight talk express” but could expres himself fluidly.
I caught bits of the press conference this morning but he seemed more smoother than I remember him being. Maybe I didn’t listen enough until he ran out of the canned bits. He answered questions with platitudes as usual. IOW, he didn’t directly address the questions which were posed so much as using the questions as an opportunity to repeat mantras and slogans.
It’s the lower expectations. And maybe given the Red State support he got, his style of speech is more comforting or familiar to them.