I thought two foreign quagmires, the crippled US (and now world) economy and increased US national debt was Bush's Legacy Project.

Bush could have followed FEMA's lead and started calling on interns as if they were actual reporters.

He did. I distinctly remember FOX NEWS asking a question.

There's a bright side for Bush -- at least no one threw their shoes at him.

Remember how President Petulant mimicked a whine about "financial collapse on my watch".

Even now he's blameless. An earthquake would perhaps fit that description. But Bush's Recession will forever be Bush's Recession.

What a total jerk, right to the end.

Don't misunderestimate George's legacy.

His mangling of the English Language rules!

After eight years the Republican party is reduced to crackers and whine.

Couldn't there actually be a more disturbing alternative explanation--that there's no more than 35 organizations left with D.C. bureaux?

(Ah, ever since the days of Jeff Gannon, the press conferences just haven't been the same.)

MN Public Radio started to broadcast the conference, but after 3 questions they broke away from it for something else :)

What was to hear?

Bush spent 8 years dodging questions. Turns out the press prefers a president-elect who actually gives them material to wrote stories about.

I was struck by the smattering of applause at the end of the news conference. I would have thought even a very jaded press corps would at least give a hearty round of applause for an outgoing president. But no. Just two or three pairs of hands were clapping - and I assume those were of Fox News, Washington Times, and other traditional Bush sycophants. The rest of the pack just filed out, apparently fully ready to move on to a new administration and not sorry at all to see this President's final moment in the spotlight.

I only wish the conclusion of his presidency as a colossal failure extended to the press performance, as it aided and abetted his most monstrous decision, to attack and invade, preemptively, a country which had done nothing to the US.

The media did not turn on this Arab punishment program until the citizens got bored of it and it bogged down. They were in concordance with every aspect of Bush's, NOW, most colossal mistake.

Where is the accountability for the media's negligence, incompetence and outright lies? There was no "intelligence failure", everyone knew. Fuck the neo-con press.

Looks like the President who sanctimoniously vowed to "restore honor and dignity to the office of the President" (read, keep his pants on in the Oval Office) is still using interns for hos.

Was Jeff Gannon there?

Was Jeff Gannon there? -Fnord

I didn't see him, but I didn't look under the podium.

I'm sorry.

I can almost forgive Joe the Journalist for not showing up. He has that big gig covering that story which offends him to have to cover. But where was Gannon? Shouldn't he have been there for old times' sake?

doubtful: I'm sorry

Just as we must pick our battles, we must pick what we feel guilty about. I would humbly submit that this need not be one of those instances.