Translation: he is incapable of learning. But we knew that.

The successor will assume office with the most votes. That tends to make things a little smoother.

Leader of the free world?

...I was part of the people who didn't approve of Iraq.

It's good to know that George W. Bush is amongst the 55+ percentage of Americans who disapprove of George W. Bush's Iraq strategy.

Normally, the conundrum of someone vehemently disagreeing with himself would give me a migraine, but for Bush, it seems par for the course.

Has his fluence in English actually become worse? Virtually every Bush utterance here is burbling incoherent nonsense.

Mr. Interrupter indeed.

I'm just speechless after reading this interview transcript. The extent to which Bush is inarticulate is mind blowing.

It's something to read how sanguine George Bush is about Pakistan and whether their nuclear weapons are safe from extremists: "I certainly hope so . . . but, yeah, I feel good about it right now." So why the apoplexy regarding Iran? There seems to be a hotbed of about 5 people (primarily Ahmadinejad's supporters) in Iran vs. some hundreds of thousands in Pakistani Waziristan. And, by all accounts, there is substantial support for radicals among Pakistani military and intelligence personnel, which ought to drain any feelings of comfort the President might have.

George Bush advises presidential candidates "to have a set of principles from which you will not deviate, and, so that you can make good sound decisions." It would be useful if we were presented with a set of principles from candidates that translated into a cogent, coherent foreign policy. I would have preferred that from Bush in 2000. I wonder that he cannot articulate them seven years, thousands of lives and a trillion dollars later.

One of history's greatest mysteries will be how the hell that nincompoop (there, I said it) ever got to be President of the United States.

If he hadn't been born into a privilaged, well-connected political family, if he had just been born into a normal, middle-class family, he wouldn't have lasted a week as a greeter at Walmart.

I think at some point history will just start referring to the Cheney Administration. Its clear this guy didn't have a clue.

He seems himself as The Decider having oh-so-knowledgeable people give him opinions to base his wise decisions on.

For the rest of us it looks like he know absolutely nothing about the issues he's deciding on and doesn't bother to learn. Bush lets people with an agenda give him slanted views that reinforce his world view while directing him to their own desired decision.

George W Bush is a puppet and not a proper President. I have to think the job would be much harder for someone who actually did the job.

...the phrase, "Not so much" is sounding increasingly last-century, particularly since you resort to it so often. Perhaps it's time to employ something else in the same, would be-with-it clever vein?

...I was part of the people who didn't approve of Iraq.

It's good to know that George W. Bush is amongst the 55+ percentage of Americans who disapprove of George W. Bush's Iraq strategy.

I think he said exactly what he meant. He didn't say he disapproves of his strategery- he disapproves of Iraq, the country itself. It is hot, dusty and violent. Iraq's people are insufficiently grateful to GWB for imposing his special blend of democracy, terror, torture and fear. He probably still resents their failure to have WMDs too. He disapproves of Iraq, and he's going to take whatever steps are necessary to eliminate it.

"Has his fluence in English actually become worse? Virtually every Bush utterance here is burbling incoherent nonsense."

Methinks The Decider is either back on the Jack Daniel's express or fell off his mountain bike too many times.

Yeah?

Well I was part of the group of people (numbering in the millions, by the way) who didn't approve of Iraq- way back in 2003.

Can we all make a deal to, at bare minimum, make sure that our next President of the United States can at least speak coherently? I'm embarassed just reading this.

Lord I know it's been a while since we last spoke, but I'm on my knees now and I'm begging you Lord. Fifteen more months, get us throught the next fifteen months without this maniac incinerating the planet! PLEEEEEASE!!!

Listening to The Decider is decidedly cringe inducing. Reading his utterances in written form isn't any better. The fact that this man is in the oval office is just embarrassing beyond belief. And the fact that the beltway and punditocracy extend decorum and keep a straight face about this travesty is simply horrifying.

It is impossible I . . . maybe not, but I think it's impossible for anybody to fully comprehend, you know, how much incoming there is into the Oval Office, and therefore it's important, to have a very orderly . . . disciplined process...

In fact, apparently it is so difficult to comprehend, that W employs the very "disciplined process" of just leaving it up to VP Cheney to tell him what to "decide" on all that incoming stuff.

sheesh http://www.backwardsbush.com/

oh god. they really shouldn't let him off leash.

The interview continues.......

On Iran

Well, the Iranians, see....the people, over in Iran, they...want freedom. And that's good for us. If....you have to understand that...it's a tough call for me, but.....in other words, Iran is...on the road to freedom and we want to...ahh, get freedom to them. Maybe on a truck or a really big boat. It's...umm, Laura is great gal. She said I could ride my bike today if I do this interview. So..what was I saying?

He already dinged Hillary for President -- most likely so Jeb can run against her in 2012.

For the same reason that Hillary did not seem particularly excited about electing John Kerry in 2004. Because he would be running unopposed (in primary) for re-election today.

Steadfast as ever, despite obvious lack of progress with his ESL correspondence course.

There’s still time before he embarks on his post-decider, coffer-stashing, speaking tour.

Regretfully, the only “Mr. Interrupter” that occurs to me in reading this is the failure of Bush senior to apply Coitus Interruptus some 61 years ago.

WAFM!