By Blair Golson

The video below juxtaposes two clips of Bush speaking at debates--one during the 1994 Texas gubernatorial campaign, the other during the 2004 presidential campaign. You will probably be shocked to see how--there is no other word for it--articulate a public speaker our current president was a mere 12 years ago.

This video has been around since late 2004, but it’s new to Truthdig, which saw it for the first time at a Super Bowl party last night along with a group of other first-timers. Figuring that some of our readers may have missed it the first time around, too, we’re presenting it now.

The story behind this video is as follows:

In the fall of 2004, James Fallows, a former speechwriter for Jimmy Carter, wrote an article for The Atlantic Monthly about Bush and John Kerry’s debating style called “When George Meets John.â€