We've known he was unfit for so long. Remember this?

[Rose Siding]

http://static.crooksandliars.com.nyud.net:8090/2006/07/Bush-99.jpg Bush undergoes a quiz about foreign leaders in 1999.

http://www.crooksandliars.com/posts/2006/07/23/bush-quiz-from-1999/

He really acts as though he's enjoying a big joke over how unprepared he was.

Andrea Mitchell and David Gregory have a chuckle about what EVERYONE in the media should have been warning us about way back when.

[liberal N proud]

1. The media was in on the sham from the get-go

The neocons did what Nixon failed to do, they recruited the media before taking power. Owning the media allowed them to drive their message.

[EFerrari]

3. Nixon made Rove not only possible but necessary. You're right. nt

[EFerrari]

2. hence, "Bush can't find the Earth on a globe."

Is it just me or do other people wonder about the focus on the frontman?

Most of the time, I think Junior was put out there as a target so we'd look at him and not at the corporatists that defraud us every day while training us to hand over our resources -- even our children.

I sound :tinfoilhat: and darn, that's what I really think.

[Nikki Stone 1]

4. Not tinfoil. Junior was the packaging.

A Ronald McDonald hiding a group of vampires that is bleeding America dry

[EFerrari]

5. Has it always been this way? I don't know any more. n/t

[wtmusic]

7. A tool

The neocons thought "Bush" name recognition would help get him into the WH and they were right. Since there, he's been putty in their hands.

Not :tinfoilhat: at all.

[EFerrari]

8. Putty eventually takes shape. This lamentable person

never will.

I don't hate Junior. He barely exists, as far as I can tell, as an independent organism.

[oberliner]

6. wonder how he'd do if

Somebody asked him to name the 10 Commandments!

[EFerrari]

9. What a great point. I'd love to see that one.

:hi:

[Rose Siding]

10. I'd like for someone to ask if he knows the US caualty total for Iraq-

The current total.

[EFerrari]

11. He probably can't count his own change.

I don't mean to dismiss his obligation. But, he clearly couldn't function as a human being in adult life without a ton of help.

[Rose Siding]

13. He has a real knack for getting that help

He's a hustler, and he's good at that. It's doubtful, though, that anyone keeps him briefed on the little details like how many lives his policies have cost. They wouldn't expect the press to ask the question. What a revealing, humiliating, undeniable gotcha that would be.

[EFerrari]

14. You bet. My consolation is that Senior Junior is humiliated

every time Junior opens his mouth.

Not a great consolation, when you think of it.

Too bad we have a propaganda organ and not a free press. It's funny because, even in our slight capacity as comedy writers for an independent small paper, we put out more facts than our local paper. And our small paper's readership is picking up because of it.

Most days, this feels like Bizzarro World.

:(

[Journeyman]

12. His lack of knowledge didn't disturb me so much. . .

there are plenty of issues about which each of us is ignorant, and no one can reasonably be expected to have ready answers to every question -- it's why Presidents and the like have Staff who can refresh their memories and feed them info as needed.

What bothered me most about this incident was that Bush allowed himself to be put in such an embarassing position and proved incapable of deflecting the questions or changing the direction of the interview. What would he do, I wondered then, when confronted by foreign dignitaries bent on discrediting the nation. If he couldn't parry questions from a "bush league" reporter, how would he extricate himself when confronted by Putin or the like?

And as we now all know, he's proved even less adept in action than he gave indications he would be so many years ago.

[EFerrari]

15. Are you old enough to remember JFK's press conferences?

He had the facts AND he was a great player of the press.

You wouldn't recognize the Office as the same one.

Ack. I better go pull some weeds.

[Rose Siding]

16. It sure disturbed me.

For the job of pres, knowing the names of a few dozen world leaders seems like the least the applicant could bring to the interview. One sure way to have avoided the embarrassing position would have been to have prepped for the job he desired.

[EFerrari]

17. My hubby is on the autism spectrum. He remembers things so

amazingly, I want to overnight him to Jeopardy!

But, on the fly, he doesn't do very well. All that relating and listening and eye contact and observing boundaries that are invisible to him and stuff get in his every way.

I hate to draw any comparison between my good man and Junior, but to be honest, Junior comes off as on the same spectrum to my highly untrained self. :shrug: