Just plain pathetic:
Move over, Oprah. President Bush is making himself into television's newest talk show host by making audience participation a feature of his appearances.
Bush has been taking questions from audience members in recent speeches, and the White House says none has been prescreened. The sessions are not open to the public, but instead limited to invited groups...
The White House has grown so comfortable with the format that most of his appearance Monday at Kansas State University scheduled for 12:30 p.m. ET was reserved for Q-and-A with the audience.
Here's a story about the visit itself--and here's another one. And, if you ask me, a good, one word summary is..."bullshit."
First, we're supposed to get all dewey-eyed with pride that the chief executive has the stunning capacity to string a few more-or-less complete sentences together when a carefully screened audience member tosses a slow softball of a question in his direction? Gimme a goddamned break. And his "defense" of warrantless wiretapping--as well as the media's apolgies for it--make me wonder if they've all gone off the deep end minus their lifejackets...
I dunno--maybe they're so lightheaded they'll bob around above the water line. But this is serious business, and relatively straightforward as well: Team Bush broke the law, repeatedly, and NOT because FISA somehow forced them to...unless it's a matter of them being SO maddeningly, goddamned incompetent that they don't know how to fill out the paperwork. Although, even if that WAS the case, it'd be easy enough to have careerists do it for them (that's what the careerists are there for).
Incompetence on the part of Team Bush is so part and parcel to their way of being it might as well be chiseled in stone: Iraq, Afghanistan, the economy--their touch is, at best, leaden...and often worse (see below). But we're supposed to cheer the fact that the boy king can stop grinding his teeth long enough to speechify.
Talk about the soft bigotry of low expectations.
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