even when he is reading directly off of a teleprompter, often don t make any sense. the bizarre whispering, the turning the back, who is he talking to? the shaking hands with people that don t exist, this is a time that is not in control i don t take any joy in it because all of our enemies are taking advantage of the fact we have an empty suit right now in the white house and it is only going to get worse over the next couple of years, and pete, he is telling everybody, at least obama reportedly, that he is going to run for reelection at the age of 82? this is madness. he is in worse control of his faculty than any president we have ever had in modern american history. this is an embarrassment. i don t how we get out of this mess but i know it is not getting any better. pete: there are some moments when playing the what if it were trump game, if trump had done one-tenth of the things joe biden is doing now other cable pundits would be yelling 25th amendment, there is no doubt ab
jeb bush. spent part of his reinvention speech tort la meanting the fact that everybody everywhere seems to be telling him he needs to change something that no great leader like, say, abraham lincoln had to face in his day. if lincoln were alive today manage anyone the foolishness he would have to suffer. think about it. advisers telling him to shave his beard. cable pundits telling him to lose the top hat. opposition researchers calling him a five-time loser before he was 50. but lincoln actually did have people giving him advice on his appearance. in october of 186011-year-old grace wrote this letter to then candidate lincoln. dear, sir, my father has just gotten home in the fair and brought home your picture. i have got four brothers and part of them will vote for you anyway. and if you let your whiskers grow, i will try and get the
his republican rivals. here he was. the answer isn t sending someone from one side to the other. the solution will be found in someone who has never demonstrated the capacity to implement conservative ideas. you can t just tell congress you re fired and go to commercial break. you have to bring people together to solve problems. the challenges we face as a nation are too great to roll the dice on another presidential experiment. so jabbing at others in a more comical ways, taking some jabs at himself. if lincoln were alive today, imagine the foolishness he would have to suffer. think about it. advisers telling him to shave his beard. cable pundits telling him to
have to suffer. think about it. advisers telling him to shave his beard. cable pundits telling him to lose the top hat. opposition researchers calling him a five-time loser before he was 50. i ve gotten a lot of advice lately myself. more than enough, thank you. more than enough, thank you very much. let s bring in cnn s chief political correspondent dana bash for more on this. so, what s the message here? i m like lincoln? reporter: i think it s kind of like a popeye speech, i am what i am. that s seems to be the tone throughout. certainly he takes some partisan shots at the president and tries to frame what he s been talking about since he launched his campaign back in june, which is he has leadership skills, he did a lot in florida that could be translated to washington. but at the end of the day this
little better at it in terms of going to that broader group of potential voters. because i want to play this david letterman bite so badly. here is david letterman on his top ten of donald trump. number seven, he wants to build a wall. how about building a wall around that thing on his head. number two, donald trump has pissed off so many mexicans he s starring in a movie titled no amigos. [ applause ] paul okay. a joke to some but his poll numbers are very real. do you believe that they ll last? no not over time. they ll last a while. the damage will last. the damage he s doing with latinos will last it will hurt the republicans and it may cost them the presidency. for now mr. trump is god s gift to democrats, to cable pundits, of which i m both and to late-night comics and even david letterman had to come out of