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Originally posted by sgtclub
Not sure if anybody else caught this, but his performance was one of the worst I have ever seen by a publicly elected offical. Just abysmal. He was completely incoherent. Someone needs to give a wake up call to the White House if they don't want the election to be a completel blow out.
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Agreed here as well. He is unable to put together a paragraph of thought in speech. One sentence? Perhaps. But he'd immediately get off track or onto some irrelevant side point. And it was not just bobbing and weaving, because it's not like the other points were non-answers. They were incoherent irrelevancies.
As for Russert, I would say he was definitely easier on Bush than most guests in two ways. 1) He let Bush continue, rather than interjecting, which is understandably respectful. 2) He did not ask the tough follow-up like he usually does, which suggests kid gloves. He did not follow the usual Russert model of question; non-answer; repeated, more pointed question; follow-up answer more to the point or repeated dodge (when Russert drops, leaving non-answer to be replayed on nightly news).
