Posted by Jankdc "There was total confusion. It was 5:30 p.m. The speech was in three and a half hours. After finally getting the speech draft turned around and sent back to the teleprompter technicians, we trudged back to the Family Theater, where the president rehearsed. In the theater, the president was clearly confused about how the government would buy these securities. He repeated his belief that the government was going to “buy low and sell high,” and he still didn’t understand why we hadn’t put that into the speech like he’d asked us to. When it was explained to him that his concept of the bailout proposal wasn’t correct, the president was momentarily speechless. He threw up his hands in frustration. “Why did I sign on to this proposal if I don’t understand what it does?” he asked." Good read:
Link: Me Talk Presidential One Day
on 9/21/2009, 8:23 pm
Message modified by user Jankdc 9/21/2009, 8:27 pm
He got caught up in looking "bold" and went ahead anyway.
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