Here’s a glimpse of Bush’s notes at his press conference yesterday, published over at Arianna’s place:

I took a few minutes with Photoshop, and now here are the same notes,
rotated and made a little clearer, as if we’re looking down from the
podium ourselves:

Hmm. 

First thing that leaps out is the semi-literate capitalization, but we saw that before in his note telling Condi he needed to wee.  So, sigh, nothing new there.  Moving on.

Some of the writing is too fuzzy to make out, but by blowing the picture up and fooling with
the contrast slider, this much was pretty clear on the left side:

Imagine how addled you’d have to be to need to actually write down reminders to yourself to burp up meaningless phrases like "history not written."  And in case you were wondering, yes, he actually used some of the above phrases in the first two responses he gave:

Wow.  History may not yet be written, but every damn thing Bush says apparently is.  Man.

Pretty convenient, btw, that the first two reporters’ questions just happened to lead directly to the empty responses Bush was already planning to use, right there on the top left of his cheat sheet.  Gosh, that must have been terribly lucky.

In the center we glimpse Bush’s diagram of whom he’s supposed to call
on.  You’ll notice a few of the seats down front have big, bold boxes
around them.  I can’t make out most of the names, but the two visible at bottom right seem pretty clearly to be:

And sure enough, those two got called on.  I have no idea how Bush’s system actually works, but it sure looks like the poor kids in the back might be completely ignored.

Speaking of poor people being ignored: on the right, Bush has some specific notes about Katrina.  Here’s the
best I can make of it, omitting the impenetrably teeny sub-notes: