Please Tell Me People Aren't This Stupid

As he takes to the road to salvage his presidency, Bush is letting down his guard and playing up his anti-intellectual, regular-guy image. Where he spent last year in rehearsed forums with select supporters, these days he is more frequently throwing aside the script and opening himself to questions from audiences that are not prescreened. These sessions have put a sometimes playful, sometimes awkward side back on display after years of trying to keep it under control to appear more presidential.

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....the relaxed approach left some reassessing their view of him. The Freedom House audience consisted of many Democrats, yet the buzz afterward was strikingly positive.

"They were surprised that they were impressed," said Thomas O. Melia, Freedom House's deputy executive director, who has his own Democratic pedigree. "Across the board, whether they supported him or not, I think everybody went out of the room more favorably disposed toward him and his policies."

PLEASE tell me this article got a lot of White House spin put on it.

At this point, how could ANY thinking person feel positive about this man? I don't care how charming he is. Most politicians can put on the charm. Bush is a known liar, scammer, torture-loving mass murderer. There is no way any sentient, caring being should anyone feel favorably disposed to him (this obviously rules out Republicans and certain Democrats).