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Its pretty easy to criticize the president these days. After all he's just so stubborn, can't admit a mistake, and won't seem to do what he needs to do to make amends for them.
Take today's speech at the energy department: Here's this speech where he's telling the American people a pretty important thing. He says that he will tap into the Nation's strategic petroleum reserves to help with the gas problem (not really a shortage in most of the country) and then he tells people that we need to car pool, take mass transit and consider putting off any unnecessary car trips.
Watch it here: (fast forward to about 1:20 into it)
http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/09/26/bush.ap/index.html

That's a pretty important speech. But when he gets to the part about asking people to conserve, notice he doesn't do the presidential thing. He doesn't look into the cameras, and say what he wants to say clearly. If I'm he speech writer I have him look dead into the camera and say: Today, I have a message to the American people. We need your help. You can help make up for the gas shortage. Take public transportation. Have your husband or wife drive you to work, or take a car pool. Put of any driving you don't have to do. Give us a month to get this situation back to normal, and then we can all go back to doing things the way we used to."

Instead he 'hums' and 'haws' he looks down and off camera.. exactly how you'd look if you were telling a girl you were breaking up with her, or tell your boss you want to take a new job. Why can't he just stand up and say one complete sentence about what he wants to happen. It must be that it pains him so much to actually ask people to sacrifice. Its no wonder he partied so much in college, he's the good times president. We're spending too much money in Iraq? Tax Cuts! Huge profits for oil companies.. while gas is $3 a gallon? "Uh.. drive a bit less" The worst natural disaster in recent memory? "I'm looking to go back to Senator Lott's beach house when its re-built."

This guy doesn't have a clue how to lead.