In two debates now, Bush has appeared tense and uptight -- and his answers have been, for the most part, memorized stock lines from his standard stump speech.

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Part of his dislike of the whole experience came from when he inevitably forgot one of those memorized lines, and went into a tizzy trying to recall it so that he would give the audience the entire speech as written.

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