Bush goes phonetic to avoid tongue slips (pronounciation guide popped up on screen)

[The Count]

When Bush addressed the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, the White House inadvertently showed exactly how - with a phonetic pronunciation guide on the teleprompter to get him past troublesome names of countries and world leaders.
The White House was left scrambling to explain after a marked-up draft of Bush's speech popped up briefly on the UN website as he delivered his remarks, giving a rare glimpse of the special guidance he gets for major addresses.

It included phonetic spellings for French President Nicolas Sarkozy (sar-KO-zee), a friend, and Zimbabwe leader Robert Mugabe (moo-GAH-bee), a target of US human rights criticism.
http://www.theage.com.au/news/WORLD/Bush-goes-phonetic-to-avoid-tongue-slips/2007/09/26/1190486346619.html

[LisaM]

1. That explains his weird enunciation

Though of course I've seen him do it with words that he seemed to be using all on his own - like exaggerAtion......but still, it seems that he always putting the accent of a sentence or word in the wrong place - and then saying that syllable more loudly than the rest, not just putting more emphasis on it. I mean explain in the sense that this is where he comes up with these pronounciations - I don't think it explains how someone who is so unqualified for public speaking is up there giving these speeches in the first place.

[The Count]

3. Also unexplainable, why someone intent on world domination is speaking

at the UN at all - but I guess smoke and mirrors are still necessary...

[L. Coyote]

2. Compare this to every college professor you know. Who is least qualified to be POTUS?

[PinkTiger]

4. Most of the professors I know (and I am one) are not good speakers.

However, anyone in a community who is a leader and gives talks occasionally can usually out-talk Shrub.
He sucks.