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This is President Bush’s answer to David Gregory’s question today at the news conference, which I referenced earlier.

Let me make an additional point about this answer. We know the president isn’t very articulate in news conference settings. But national leaders don’t have to be articulate to be good leaders. In fact there have been a number very good ones who could scarcely speak coherently for thirty seconds.

But if you watch this passage I think you see something different. Namely, that pretty much everything that’s happened over the last three years, and certainly over the last three months has just gone in one presidential ear and out the other. He is, in both the deepest and most superficial sense, out of it.

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