#427...is that bulge a wrinkle, or are you just happy to see me...

Because this story shouldn't die an easy death -

there is a difference - a rather big difference - between being a poor, unprepared and unpolished speaker....

and a bobbing headed marionette puppet President of the United States of America....

                                      

 

"Sure, Bush uses an earpiece sometimes," a top Washington editor for Reuters said to me last spring. "State of the Union -- he had an earpiece for that. Everybody knows it," he said, or assumes it. But everybody doesn't know it, I said. Why hadn't Reuters investigated? The editor shrugged and said it wasn't so different from using a teleprompter.

Except that a teleprompter isn't a secret. And Americans have the right to know if the president can't or won't speak in public without covert assistance."

so like many of you watching the first debate, I saw the "bush bulge" with my own eyes and thought, oh - look he's wired for a lapel mic....

until I realized there was no lapel mic...

So just who was he channeling? God, Elmer Fudd, Karl Rove perhaps?

Either way, the transmissions must have been garbled from time to time, which would explain his halting and poor responses and frustrated body language...and just who was he talking to when he stated blankly - "I, I , uh...Let me finish!.." when no one was trying to interrupt him... 

to use Bush's own words - it's an "absurd asinuation,"  of course.....I'm just saying.....