Here’s more on a story Atrios originally published yesterday- this is from Dan Froomkin’s White House Briefing:

Blogger Atrios and his readers are having a field day zooming in on a high-resolution version of this AP photograph and reading Bush’s notes.

Indeed, you can read the following:

“Saddam Was A Threat –

“Sworn Enemy of US

“Destabilizing Force

“Volatile part of world

“Had Weapons of Mass D . . .

“Tied to terrorist orgs . . . “

And over on the right, it looks like someone else printed a list of all the reporters in the pool yesterday:

“Deb Riechmann (AP)

“David Morgan (Reuters)

“Roger Runnigen (Bloomberg)

“John Roberts (CBS)

“Bob Hillman (DMN) [That’s Dallas Morning News]

“Ann Compton (ABC Radio)”

Runnigen and the others never got their chance. Bush only called on Riechmann and Morgan. But he did indeed stick largely to those talking points.

The thing that strikes me is that he actually writes this stuff down… why? I mean, it’s the same thing every day- “Saddam was a threat.” “Enemy…” “Destabilizing…”

After three years of regurgitating the same talking points over and over he can’t just internalize this stuff and spit it back out? This guy does not have sufficient candlepower to lead.