Press conference. Preznit gets asked hard one by John Dickerson of Time.

JD: "You used to say your biggest mistake was trading Sammy Sosa when you owned the Rangers. After 9/11, what would you say your biggest mistake is and what did you learn from it?"

GWB: "I wish you'd given me the written question ahead of time so I could plan for it."

(Angry look.)

"Uh."

(Six second pause.)

"John, I'm sure historians will look back on it and say he could have done it better this way or that way. Uh."

(Five second pause, shaking head and puffing his cheeks.)

"Uh."

(Three second pause, still looking down and to his right.)

"I'm sure something will pop into my head in the midst of this press conference. All the pressure of trying to come up with an answer, but I haven't yet."

(Shakes head. Three second pause.)

"I would have gone into Afghanistan the way we went into Afghanistan."

(Four second pause.)

"Even with what I know today about the stockpiles of weapons, I still would have called upon the world to act on Saddam Hussein. See, I happen to believe we will find the truth on the weapons. That's why we set up an independent commission. They could still be out there - they could be hidden like the fifty tons of mustard gas on a turkey farm. One of the things that Charlie Dolfort (sp?) talked about ..."

(four second pause)

"... was the level of intimidation he found among people that should know about weapons. They fear talking about them because they don't want to be killed. There's this, there's this, there's this terror still in the soul of some of the people in Iraq. They're worried about getting killed. It'll all settle out, John. We'll find out the truth about the weapons at some point in time. The fact that he had the capacity to make them bothers me."

This is word for word and yes, I timed the pauses. I don't have the time or expertise to go through this and blast it, but the Preznit simply had no idea how to answer what seems to be a relatively important question. It's no harder than ones asked in a typical job interview and he answered it like someone who wouldn't get hired. Stall, then talk in circles until you get to something you feel good talking about.

He's still convinced the WMDs are out there, somewhere. Hans Blix and David Kay haven't done enough, I guess, for this guy's liking ... or he just doesn't like the answer. I'm not so much worried that he's incompetent any more. That's established. I'm worried that not enough people realize it. I would like a president who can actually think on his feet, know his own answers, put together cogent thoughts, and have some semblance of a grasp on reality.

No turkee for Time.