Embarrassing to me and some others who are staunch Bush supporters.
He is rarely (though sometimes) eloquent, but he is always sincere, and accurate, and he speaks the truth.
I said the same thing in my post.
His only hesitation was to name his biggest mistake since 9/11. It was a stupid question, and he couldn't come up with an answer because he wasn't going to make one up.
No one who admires honesty should be embarrassed by that.
I'm not embarrassed by his honesty.
I am embarrassed that a good and decent man with solid convictions and excellent judgment..who is RIGHT on the issues should appear so shaky and lacking in composure when answering a bunch of hollow phony liberal media jackals.
Condi Rice did a great job of standing tough in the face of the left's attempts to make her look bad last week. That's what I want to see from Bush.
Only a liar would be.
However, I am confident that I'm not the only one that saw President Bush as a little unfocused, distracted, unprepared, and drifting on several occasions. It seemed kinda obvious to me. Of course, I'm just giving my honest opinion.
But I didn't see anything 'shaky and lacking composure' in his demeanor at all, and nothing even slightly embarrassing.
I DID see something that a hateful leftist media would grab onto in his hesitancy to come up with his 'biggest mistake,' but I don't see that anyone but a partisan would jump on that.
The rest was a strong, impassioned defense of why we must stay the course in Iraq. Not one person misunderstood him tonight, and that is the essence of good communication.
(And not fair, IMO, to compare him to Condi. Different roles. But I agree that she was brilliant).