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Originally posted by Locobot
Yeah are we talking about grammar or a political mistake? If it's the former then wow, he flubbed a few verbs during an hour long interview. We all know that Bush would never make these mistakes because he's incapable of carrying on an open hour-long interview. Bush just cant think on his feet. Note: I'm not calling him stupid, he's not. Doesn't it bother some of you that our president and leader of the free world almost never speaks without a reading from a scripted speech? Isn't the ability to synthesize and generate original thoughts on the spot a quality we should require in a president?
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I agree, he is not stupid. He may not be the most eloquent President ever, nor the quickest, but he has definitely given non scripted interviews and shown at least some capacity to thinking on his feet (there is most definitely room for improvement in that area though).
A quick Google search shows he has given interviews of at least an hour to the following:
Barbara Walters
Charles Gibson
Scott Pelley
There were also quite a few hour plus interviews detailed to news services or television programs but they didn't supply reporter names. These included Reuters, Czech tv, and several other outlets.
I am sure he was not reading from a script on these occasions. Plenty of appearances by Presidents throughout history were "scripted" because there are certain points he wants/needs to get across. The Gettysburg address was "scripted" but is still quite historically compelling.