Where the hell is Bush...holed up in a shelter underground or what?

[Roxy66]

He sounds like he is in a bomb shelter or something.....weird

[Roxy66]

1. We were all right...he is an alien

[Barrett808]

2. I *know* -- he sounds like Alien Overlord Bush n/t

[Jeanette in FL]

3. I was just thinking the same thing

With all the technology at his disposal, this sounds horrible. Wonder why we can't see him?????

[Pilotguy]

4. I was thinking the same thing...

Sounds like he's in a bunker.

[JohnnyBoots]

10. .....if he is what is going to happen state side????

[tridim]

5. What's the reason for no video?

Did CNN say why it was audio only? Another pretzel incident perhaps?

[Pilotguy]

7. Maybe he...

fell of his bike again and doesn't want us to see the bruises.

[Roxy66]

6. What.... they cant afford a good cell phone? Weird

[TheWebHead]

8. haha.. Bush is a cyborg

he sounds particularly scary today.

[NYC]

9. This is not on free TV.

What's he saying?

[ohio_liberal]

15. He spewed some bullshit about the hurricane for a minute

Now he's spewing a lot of bullshit about the Iraq constitution. Seriously, I can't understand what he's saying. It's audio only and the sound quality is just terrible.

[Stephanie]

21. Only audio? That's too freaking bizarre! Why only audio?

[salin]

31. Did he spend more time on the hurricane (safety of US citizens) or on

self-promotion - ala trying to "win over the public" per the war in Iraq?

[Carni]

43. Iraq and self promotion from what I heard

Crap about:

*insurgents targeting the little children*
*murderers*
*killers*
*spreading freedom*
*bravery of the Iraqi people*
*spreading freedom*
*Staying the course*

Same bullshit....I just heard the typical key phrases but I zoned through it.

[salin]

46. if there is an audio clip - we should time it - and remind folks

later that in the face of a disaster he spent x amount of time on the disaster and those facing it vs y amount of time promoting his political agenda and trying to push his poll numbers a little higher.

It sorta unmasks his character a bit.

[Carni]

47. Very similar to his act during 911 with his goat book

People jumping to their deaths and that asshole sits there reading -doing nothing. Just as he has done today. Telling people to take heed and evacuate and then not providing any federal aid until AFTER the catastrophy is so george W

[Carni]

40. What the heck was I watching on MSNBC?

I caught about five minutes of the chimp prattling on about Iraq and there was video of him blathering away about nothing.

It was supposedly live (???)

[Roxy66]

11. He sounds like he is under distress......is he being held somewhere?

This is just too weird

[Penndems]

44. He's hiding from Hurricane Katrina and the protesters

Bet on it. ;)

[riverwalker]

12. he is babbling nonsense WTF??

is he wasted? We are able to broadcast from Camp Casey, but the POTUS can't send out an audible address to the nation?

[Pirate Smile]

13. Is he winging it? Part of it didn't sound like the usual reading it off

of something.

[Junkdrawer]

14. The Darth Vader voice is creepy...

"I find your lack of faith, disturbing"...

[Pirate Smile]

16. Did he say that?

[Junkdrawer]

18. Vader said that...but Dubya came close...n/t

[lonestarnot]

17. I posted a thread re this very subject, only mine was a little

more in the rough and it got deleted! LOL

[DanCa]

19. A spider hole burried deep underground.

That's where we find all dictators with a messiah complex these days.

[catmandu57]

20. Fear me. For I am the Ovvverlorrd

I didn't listen but it sounds like one of the Brains bad plots to take over the world.

[salin]

22. Didn't hear it - wondering if he did any inappropriate slipping

into political rhetoric at an inappropriate time within his speech (ala pump up me anti Cindy... even though this really should ONLY be about folks in the path of Katrina). He is prone to do this (promote self at inappropriate times.) Was he able to refrain himself?

[Penndems]

23. That was the most bizzare Presidential media event I've heard

in my fifty years on this planet. He sounded EXACTLY as if he was broadcasting from a bunker. No video, and the audio was crackling and breaking. There was something extremely chilling about that entire scenario.

Is he hiding out somewhere?

[Stephanie]

26. He hasn't been seen since Wednesday.

He held a BBQ for the press, off the record, on Thursday night and that's the last anyone's seen him, AFAIK. It's too creepy and weird that they only released audio. Too weird. WTF?

[Penndems]

42. It certainly gave me the "heebee jeebies", LOL

Here I am, watching CNN, expecting to see The Village Idiot, sitting in his office in Crawford, speech text in hand. Then a graphic appears on the screen of Bush in a cropped photographic profile, and a transmission frequency icon. And then . . . this disembodied voice, crackling and pausing.

Sort of like a dictator broadcasting from a shortwave radio in a bunker. :scared:










(on edit: typo)

[lonestarnot]

27. Rough Ro! Are we going to have a Monday morning event?

[NYC]

32. Bathtub?

Could all this audio strangeness be the result of sitting in a bathtub? Someone mentioned a 1920s telephone. Echo?

Crackling and breaking. Metal of bathtub. (I know new tubs lack metal, but mine is porcelain coated metal.)

Could it be?

[Penndems]

39. A 1920s radio broadcast. That's PRECISELY what it sounded like

A broadcast over a 500-watt radio station, with antiquated equipment, straight out of 1920.

Absolutely bizzare.

[NYC]

41. Someone said part of a video has now been shown

on CNN.

CottonBear (1000+ posts) Sun Aug-28-05 01:18 PM
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12. The audio quality was awful. CNN just interrupted Max Cleland to air video

Bu$h looked like hell. He was breathing very heavily and his face was red and drawn. His hair was a mess. He's not handling any of this well. Worst president. Ever.

From: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4483022&mesg_id=4483161

[barbaraann]

24. I thought that technology enabled Bush to be in total contact with

the government while he's at the "Western White House." Is this how he is in contact with NORAD?

[Roxy66]

25. Maybe he is getting a tune-up...and his voice chip is still on the blink!

[KayLaw]

29. Very strange

They played in on the Weather Channel. It sounded like he was talking through my son's "voice changer" toy.

[Roxy66]

28. This just too weird

[barbaraann]

30. Is it like a Bin Laden tape?

n/t

[txindy]

33. Is Junior so drunk or hungover they had to alter his voice?

Run it through a lot of changes a la Ashlee Simpson's singing?

:evilgrin:

[Roxy66]

34. Do you think this was intentional?...To create FEAR

[Spazito]

35. CNN just showed a video of him speaking, what I can't figure out is

why in the HELL can't he go live in an emergency like this???? Has there ever been another President that would tape his response to a major crisis before?

[Roxy66]

36. I think he is a robot...I watched "FutureWorld" last night.....

[jimshoes]

38. It's hard "werk"

making a spaz appear presidential. Probably had to do a dozen takes to get a passable one.

[Roxy66]

45. kick

[DemonFighterLives]

37. They played the video of the beginning on cnn

and then cut away when he began to babble about progress in Iraq. He had a heck of a coke jaw thing going today, and trying very hard not to smirk.