Well, he didn’t stumble over himself, but he continued to show the apparent inability to navigate off the message , indeed, the very words and phrases of the message, and did it with his normal lack of eloquence. And he continues to lie about his administration’s destruction of practically ALL environmental advances and protections.

“He more than held his own”. Who’s this guy from the NY TIMES? I just can’t see how what Bush put forward can be considered “strong”, when it is obviously a regurgitation of simplistic, deceptive, word-driven politics with a record over the past four years of dismal failure on ALL counts. ALL counts.