[weegee]

Or, wearily listening to a business speech, nodding like a bobble-head doll and repeatedly checking his watch. (Déjà vu, anyone? Remember Daddy Bush checking his watch during the 1992 debates, a move that helped cost him the election?)

Bitch bitch bitch.

Here in Houston I saw some footage of President Bill Clinton at some meeting with Mayor Lee P. Brown (a former Clinton crony). It was being aired on public access in all its uncut glory. The mayor was babbling about issues that mattered not at all to Bill Clinton. He carefully grabbed a soda off the table and brought it below the table top. At first I wondered if he had a woman under the table and was just offering her a soda. No, he tried to open it quietly and so he's manipulating this can for something like 2 minutes before he has it open and then takes a drink. All the time he keeps nodding to what the mayor is saying, just waiting for him to show how much he "cares".

The left is desperate.

This "tape review" discussion shows what became apparent in the 2000 election. The Bush gaffes we heard were a prank by the press pool who followed Bush around. They confessed that they got bored hearing the same speech given in 3 locations in a day. They took joy in those moments he screwed up and those were what they aired.

He was governor of Texas and was never portrayed (even by his opponents) as someone who had trouble talking or was "dumb".

The big lie comes from lying liars.

[adam_az]

"Here in Houston I saw some footage of President Bill Clinton at some meeting with Mayor Lee P. Brown (a former Clinton crony). It was being aired on public access in all its uncut glory."

Careful using the words "Clinton" and "uncut glory" in adjacent sentences around here. After all, this is a family forum! :)

[Verginius Rufus]

One explanation I heard for why President Bush looked at his watch during that debate in 1992 was that Clinton had gone way over his allotted time, and the moderators were doing nothing about it. I don't know if that is correct.