The lowered expectations bit isn't working this time

[Sandpiper]

I guess once you've actually been elected, people start expecting you to act, I dunno, Presidential.

Bush hasn't grown into the role, he's shrunk the role to fit his limited intelligence and capabilities. And last night, the whole world got to see it.

[CarolynEC]

1. Great line...

"Bush hasn't grown into the role, he's shrunk the role to fit his limited intelligence and capabilities."

Sums it up perfectly. :)

[carpe_vinum]

2. I agree.

Folksy man of the people isn't going to play well when you position yourself as "the war president."

[elsiesummers]

3. Bush is too spoiled/soft for "hard work" of being president!

It's like Bush thought that it was going to be all month long vacations with no one second guessing him. Remember when he quipped that it would be easier if the US was a dictatorship? Bush can't handle someone pointing out that he simply isn't up to doing the "hard work" - that he sees the war on TV but has never been battle hardened in real life. He's too lazy to seek out new information in order to make informed decisions - he's just not capable of the "hard work" of being president.

It's like no one clued him in and said "Hey, this being president thing is a tough job, it's not 9-5 and vacations, it's not study hall, it's "hard work."

Bush is just now figuring out that being president is "hard work."

[DinahMoeHum]

4. At a certain point, you don't ripen; you rot.

But Bush was too green to begin with.


:kick:

[displacedtexan]

5. In 2000, no one thought Bush* could F*&K UP so badly!

Remember how great our country was?

Surplus?

Everyone (almost) had a job?

The debates were about how to spend all of our money on infrastructure, health care, and shoring up Social Security?

[Mojambo]

6. The real problem for Rove/Bush

is that they successfully raised Kerry's expectations as high as they could and he still exceeded them.