UPDATE: Listening to Barack now. Ah, the sweet sound of intelligence. Now he sounds presidential.
Thinking must be collapsing pretty bad as Bush holds a surprise news conference. The market drops below 10,000 and someone nonsense being spouted from the White House is "supposed to calm nerves." There are only nerves because Bush is still in the White House.
He is now babbling about the FDIC protecting deposits. Bush is now answering questions. How pathetic.
BY THE WAY: Need more reccs to keep the discussion on top of the diary list. Rec away.
As he struggles to explain himself, why aren't we surprised that the economy is struggling. When you listen, it always seems he is explaining basic economic principals that was explained to him 5 minutes before he took the stage? As a teacher, to me he sounds like a student is repeating something he read, but really doesn't understand it.
Update 10:40: He still selling the policy that we need to tear up our environment for more oil instead of moving away from oil. Hopefully this dinosaur will soon become part of a future oil pit.
Update 10:41: Bush wants us to listen to the Iraqi. We will be out to noon tomorrow then? No, we will still linger like bad house guests.
Update 10:43: "We want to getaway from hydrocarbons." Well, certainly not while your in office. He is now trying to say that he foresaw this crisis. Well, if he foresaw this crisis, he did nothing to forestall it. And I would sitll like to see the results of the secret energy meeting in 2001.
Update 10:48: Stumbling into the war of terror. "Troops are coming home based on success." Um, where. Aren't they being shipped to AFghanistan? I don't thing he mentioned Afghanistan. Ah! A reporter brought it up for him.
Question: Does anybody go back and factcheck these press conferences?
10:51 a.m.: From the comments below, Barack's foreign policy speech was to start at 10:45 a.m. Is that what this speech is about? Grandstanding? Politics? What a hateful man.
Update 10:55 a.m.: What is with the googy sidelaughs? Bush and McCain both do it? To me it is the snicker that says "I just pulled another one over on you" or "You really are pretty dumb to believe in that whopper."
Oh God. Bush has just become an oceanographer and is telling us how to drill for oil under coral reefs. Is anybody going to factcheck what he just stumbled around?
11:04 a.m.: Did he just say we have to transition away from hydrocarbons and then say we need to dig for oil shale? That's still OIL! Dumbass.
11:10 a.m.: IT'S OVER. Thank God.
BARACK'S SPEECH
The lost opportunities. Makes you want to cry.
Update 11:25 a.m.: Good speeches state the truth simply. Like this one. Maybe speeches like this will take the campaign out of the "gotcha" stage. Yeah, right.
Update 11:29 a.m.: No "green screen" speech here. No snickers, either. How about that.