(Video) Bush: "I've got an ekelectic reading list"

You'd better bookmark this blog entry -- this is one for the history books.  40 years from now we will show our grandchildren this interview and they will finally understand why things were so hard during our lifetime. 

During an interview with NBC News, from an objective standpoint, President Bush looked more on his toes, out of place and verbally inept than we have ever seen him before.  The stress of knowing that his war policy is a failure is finally getting to him.  Watch this clip, and pay close attention to Brian Williams' reaction at the end:

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--- Partial Transcript ---

BUSH: "I've got an ekelectic reading list...Lemme, Lemme, look.  The key for me is to keep expectations low."

WILLIAMS: "Is that what everyone doesn't get?"

BUSH: "I don't know, Brian, what they get or don't get.  Let, let, you know, my line here here --"

WILLIAMS: "We see all the talk."

BUSH: "Here's the thing.  I don't listen.  Here's the thing.  The great thing about the presidency is your're totally exposed, and people spend a lot of time, particularly if you're making decisions and hard decisions, people spend a lot of time, not only analyzing the decisions, they analyze the decision-maker.  And I understand that.  But a President must never let him get off let let that get him off track."

WILLIAMS: "Even if you're frustrated that we're getting something wrong?"

BUSH: "You have to do what you think is -- if we're getting something wrong, we change it."

WILLIAMS: "How have you been read wrong?"

BUSH: "Oh I don't know about (inaudible) wrong.  I frankly don't pay that much attention to it.  I don't wanna hurt people's feelings about it you (inaudible)."

WILLIAMS: "Still not watching television, huh?"

BUSH: "Ah, I watch some good baseball game."

WILLIAMS: "Mr. President, thank you very much."

BUSH: "Yes sir."

This transcript was the most accurate that I could possibly make it.  And yes, he did say ekelectic -- which probably meant eclectic.  Now my grammar is going to start unwinding for having listened to the clip.  Brian Williams' reaction at the very end was priceless. 

I just would like to say thanks a lot to the 54 million people throughout the country that voted for George W. Bush in 2004.  Thanks for having the short attention span to not think for yourself when the Swift Boat Vets smear group viciously attacked John Kerry.  Thanks for having the one-track mind to believe the notion seriously that we are fighting the terrorists in Iraq so we don't have to fight them here.  Thanks for giving us four more years with a Defense Secretary who spends more time scaring people than finding progressive ways to defend America.  This is what you voted for.  Enjoy the next two years.
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Comments

[George]

That a, a classic. Ummm, That's a classic script right there okay.

And it's two and half more years, not 2. Enjoy