Topic: So...Bush used to be a good debater...

[Slayer]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=pw4Bhmm22xo
Question: What happened?

[ringo]

In Reply To #1
Somewhat unrelated, but nice sig!

[Grethor]

Bush is a vigorous Mass-debater.

[Mooning Freddy]

How about you try to be president of the USA for 8 years. You'll have far worse problems than linguistic ones. 

[Rugal]

This country is lucky I am not president. Those caught breaking my laws will be executed on site.

Also, I'd tear down the white house and turn it into a massive castle. I will then take over the world and rename the planet earth to Rugal.

All will kneel down trembling before me, and those who don't will be smashed.

[Slayer]

In Reply To #5

Good thing I have a second home on Mars, then, huh...

[Think Tank]

How about you try to be president of the USA for 8 years. You'll have far worse problems than linguistic ones.

[Slayer]

I know I wouldn't make a good President, but only because I'd eventually, if not immediately, be haunted by some of the (life-depending) decisions I may have to make. 
If I were President, though, I'd have Free-ColdStone-IceCream-Fridays; Everyone and their mother would run out of school at the end of the day to their nearest ColdStone Creamery, and listen to the music that those fine clerks sing when they get tipped...ah, one could dream...

[Mooning Freddy]

LOL, are you defending him?

No, I'm just saying that every president, in every country, will sooner of later be criticized and made a fool out of. It's yours to decide whether it is right or wrong, but even if you look back you'll see that each and every president of America was heavily criticized in some period, and only years afterwards you can judge how much use he brought or damage he caused.
In my country, for example, there was no good Prime Minister for over 15 years. They all made mistakes, which in turn, harmed the country in one way or another. For Yitzhak Rabbin, it was the Oslo Accords. Benjamin Netanyahu led a ruthless Right-wing policy which made him hated among the Israeli Left, and questionable economical reforms. Ehud Barak had a weak defense program, that together with his lack of political skills led to the start of the Second Intifada, and the rushed-up, irresponsible retreat of IDF's forces from Lebanon that he ordered in 1999, was the reason a second Lebanese war started 7 years later. Ariel Sharon's biggest mistake was the Disengagement, that resulted in Hamas gaining power and taking over Gaza. And now... Now we have the worst Prime Minister in ages, hated both by the Right and Left. Think you've got problems?   

[DoctaMario]

In Reply To #9

That's funny what you say about Peres. It's gotten to be the same here, both the left and parts of the right hate Bush. Yet a lot of them still go along with his policies without raising a stink.  We've been sold out.