If the earpiece/wire story grows some wings, the cabal is history, folks. Tele-prompting speeches into his ear is one thing, cheating during a debate is quite another.
And the clips of him saying "wait a minute"--to who?--fully come into context now...
When he said that during the debate I thought the moderator must have said something I somehow missed hearing.
And the clips of him saying "wait a minute"--to who?--
Bush had gotten late word on the mike to make the following response which was, "Senator Kerry, you had the same intelligence I had" - and "Wait a minute" was to the moderator, thinking maybe his time was up and he couldn't get the proper response to Kerry out in time.
I think the possibility of Bush having audio coaching is very real.
Last night, I watched and heard the first debate, for the sceond time, on C-Span and one sweeping realization cannot be disputed -- Bush's performance was filled with strange awkward incidents. His entire spiel on North Korea came out in blurts with long pauses in between and he was stammering a lot. There was a lot to remember in his North Korean response. And, possibly, he got some help. Also, Bush's response about convincing Lybia to disarm and continuing with missile defenses, etc., THAT part sounds very coached. Bush is taking it one word at a time and stumbling all over the place.
In between these stammering, awkward responses and they're the ones with the most detail (statistics; names; etc.), Bush swings into full form again and speaks quickly and forcefully.
It seems he might be getting help when he needs it.
An audio feed however, with a severely limited guy like Bush, would probably serve it's real purpose as a form of audio-adrenelin. I can hear a Bush aide saying, "Don't let Kerry get away with that one Mr. President - talk about yadda yadda..." or, "Mention wrong war, wrong place, wrong time again."
IF this story has legs, and it is certainly starting to grow them as I have visited many sites this morning where smart people are confronting this possibility - IF the President of the United States entered the debates wearing an audio device planted to give him an illegal advantage over his opponent, IT'S ALL OVER FOR BUSH and for every corrupt person in his administration.
We should spin it as okay for Bush to have help. That even with his 'lifeline' team whispering the answers to him, even with the bar set so low, an amoeba couldn't slide under it....even if he has finally learned not to make faces (as someone in his ear is telling him..."don't make faces" "write something down now.") Even with a quasi friendly audience,
