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im_2_ugly wrote:

> The man has a foible. Are we any different?

We aren't the leader of the free world.  Funny how you minimize his faults
but maximize Bill's or Al's. Balance, anyone?

> What Bush clearly does is speak not verbatim from a written speech, but
> instead from an outline. He probably has before him a list of bulleted
> points. He looks down, reads a bulleted point, then expands on it
> extemporaneously. I do it routinely myself.

Probably?  You know this because... (or are you simply guessing?) BTW, he
really doesn't do a good job, regardless of how he does it.

> I give him high marks
> because he speaks from his soul, and not from a rehearsed theatrical
> event that was written by a professional speech writer.

Professional speech writers tend to make people look coherent.  Dubya
should try it for a change. (I think he does use speech writers, but they
keep using words outside his intellectual capacity.  They should be
sacked.  Hell, even Reagan sounded coherent, at least early on.)

> I think his verbal stumblings are great, and I'll even add one.
> Yesterday he introduced a new Cabinet member, HUD (Housing and *URBAN*
> Development) Secretary, Mel Martinez, as his "Sec'etary" (no r
> pronounced) of "Housing and *HUMAN* Development." I even thought to
> myself, "Dubya, it's called HUD. Where in Hell do you get 'Human' out
> of the letter U?"

It frightens me that you find a silver lining in this.  Consider the first
international negotiation at which he commits a "verbal stumbling."  His
credibility will be shot, if it is not done by the time he shows up.
...Housing and `Uman Development... God I hope he hires good people...

> Hey. What the heck. I love the guy. He is real. And his gaffes are a
> welcome relief over Clinton's phony lower-lip biting that feigns
> sincerity and care.

His gaffes include bankrupting a few oil companies that were handed to
him.  One business failure during the OPEC oil crisis, maybe...but two
failures?