Inappropriate Content: Kakistocracy©

Good stuff from the transcript, courtesy of FOXNews.

BUSH:I hear there's rumors on the Internets (sic)...

I went looking for that one, 'cause I thought Al Gore only invented one of them. But now I wonder how many times (sic) appears in the official transcript...

Okay, only twice. Once for Bush and once for Kerry. The Kerry (sic) is, oddly enough, correctly spelled:

KERRY:Is [tort reform] a problem? Yes, it's a problem. Do we need to fix it, particularly for OGBYNs (sic) and for brain surgeons and others? Yes.

The error there appears to be that Kerry failed to pronounce the hyphen correctly. Dash it.

Moving on...

BUSH: I'm not telling.

(LAUGHTER)

I really don't have -- haven't picked anybody yet. Plus, I want them all voting for me.

(LAUGHTER)

Why do they keep putting (LAUGHTER) in there? I was watching it, and putting (LAUGHTER) in the transcript creates the false impression that people were, y'know, laughing.

Then this:

BUSH:Another example would be the Dred Scott case, which is where judges, years ago, said that the Constitution allowed slavery because of personal property rights.

Hey, Bush is against slavery. That'll wrap up the black vote for him.

Okay, all kidding aside, the entire point of the evening happened here:

GRABEL: President Bush, during the last four years, you have made thousands of decisions that have affected millions of lives. Please give three instances in which you came to realize you had made a wrong decision, and what you did to correct it. Thank you.

Now, I haven't mentioned Kerry's mediocrity because of a single answer Bush gave. No matter how singularly unimpressive Senator Kerry's performance, the President's answer sharply illustrates why he lacks the responsibility required in a president.

I have made a lot of decisions, and some of them little, like appointments to boards you never heard of, and some of them big.

And in a war, there's a lot ofthere's a lot of tactical decisions that historians will look back and say: He shouldn't have done that. He shouldn't have made that decision. And I'll take responsibility for them. I'm human.

But on the big questions, about whether or not we should have gone into Afghanistan, the big question about whether we should have removed somebody in Iraq, I'll stand by those decisions, because I think they're right.

That's really what you'rewhen they ask about the mistakes, that's what they're talking about. They're trying to say, Did you make a mistake going into Iraq? And the answer is, Absolutely not. It was the right decision.

The Duelfer report confirmed that decision today, because what Saddam Hussein was doing was trying to get rid of sanctions so he could reconstitute a weapons program. And the biggest threat facing America is terrorists with weapons of mass destruction.

We knew he hated us. We knew he'd beeninvaded other countries.

We knew he tortured his own people.

On the tax cut, it's a big decision. I did the right decision. Our recession was one of the shallowest in modern history.

Now, you asked what mistakes. I made some mistakes in appointing people, but I'm not going to name them. I don't want to hurt their feelings on national TV.

(LAUGHTER) [Not really.]

But history will look back, and I'm fully prepared to accept any mistakes that history judges to my administration, because the president makes the decisions, the president has to take the responsibility.

For those of you keeping score at home, the number of mistakes President Bush is willing to cop to is precisely zero. A joke about Paul O'Neil and the vague admission that "historians" may judge him as having made some mistakes.

Bullshit.

A person who is unwilling to admit having made mistakes lacks the maturity to be trusted with any adult responsibility. Period.