Reply #10: Like him or hate him (the latter for me), Dubya has the worst approval record in history.

[NRaleighLiberal]

He and Laura, in rare moments of clarity (probably very rare for them), are aware of this. And they were with someone with just an incredible amount of charisma and goodwill - more than Georgie ever experienced in his entire life. Add that to he had to meet with an intellectual heavy weight, compared to himself - made for a rather stressful event, I would say.