Comments on: Bushisms http://michaelsiegel.net/?p=1093 Missing Sleep Since June 2007 (Blogging Since 2005) Thu, 04 Apr 2013 16:22:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Mike http://michaelsiegel.net/?p=1093&cpage=1#comment-865 Mike Wed, 14 Jan 2009 18:51:10 +0000 http://michaelsiegel.net/?p=1093#comment-865 Agreed. A perfect example is the “Goodbye from the world’s biggest polluter” quip. This might — might — have been amusing from a competent President. From this one, it just sounded assholeish.

]]> By: rpl http://michaelsiegel.net/?p=1093&cpage=1#comment-864 rpl Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:03:31 +0000 http://michaelsiegel.net/?p=1093#comment-864 You can excuse a certain amount of stammering, particularly in extemporized speaking, because sometimes your words really can outrun your thoughts (or vice versa). Still, after doing it for 8 years you’d think Bush would have gotten a little better at it. More importantly, so often he seemed to be stammering mostly because he didn’t have anything to say, or because he was being disingenuous, or sometimes even because he was trying to use some big words, and he didn’t seem to know what they really meant. We really should expect more from the guy we hired to run our country.

I also think that Bush’s folksy mannerisms got tiresome as he began to exhaust the goodwill of even his supporters. Cutesy nicknames, casual posture, country aphorisms, these are all endearing when you’re doing a good job, but when you’re generally perceived as a colossal screw-up, they make people think you’re not taking the job seriously. I’m glad we’re finally about to be shut of him.

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