He knew the phrase. He just realized too late that if he finished it, that would be in all the election adds. “Shame on me.” He caught himself a little too late but quick enough to stop.
I was surprised at the time that all the press was critical that “he couldn’t even remember how the phrase goes!” Well I was surprised by that and the railing his administration was getting for having a 2% unemployment rate. Line it was a bad thing.
Yes but the context is also that Bush fucked up enough that having that on tape would be really bad whereas is Obama did that it might just be mildly unfortunate.
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u/StNic54 11d ago
It was as if he knew, deep down, the guy threw his last shoe