At first I was listening to it on the local NPR station, but at 7pm they decided to pre-empt the president for their regular classical music programing. Colorado public radio, like many other things in this fakakta state is a disgrace.

Anyway, I switched on the TV and watched as the leader of the free world dodged questions in fumbled answers full of pregnant pauses and mistakes in subject verb agreement. The guy is a disaster as a public speaker. Yet Sean Hannity praised W's performance as "articulate". I supposed that's a more fair and balanced summation of my own.

Of all the president's gaffs in the press conference, the worst has to have to been his inability to respond to a question refelecting on a point where he might have made a mistake. I think this arrogance from the administration, this inability to admit any wrongdoing whatsoever will be undoing of the president and will result his being booted out of office after one term. All he had to say was something like his failure to recognize the problem of communication between counterterrorism departments prior to 9/11. Simple as that. Done. Everyone would accept that. But not this president. He could never make a mistake.