The Sideshow on Bush’s enablers:
It really makes you wonder what the media “expected” of Bush to begin with. Personally, I expect
the presidential nominee of one of the two major parties to be, at the very least, able to deliver
a campaign speech convincingly – at minimum, to give the impression that he knows about the major
issues of the day. But this guy consistently demonstrated that he was neither qualified to discuss
these issues intelligently nor even qualified to perform as an actor playing the role of someone who
is. Nevertheless, the press talked about him as if somehow he had managed to meet the standard of
the job.