Okay Charles, I'll talk to you. Cause I sense sarcasm here.
Remember that I did state that he handled admitting he lied quite awkwardly. It seemed prolonged, almost daring us to fill in the silent space.
Everyone KNOWS they LIE to Reporters. But...
Ah well. I agree on your cautious appraisal of matters right now.
I still feel something mighty wrong with this whole thing but I gotta go find my wits.
I believe they are framing the election as entirely about Iraq.
This is, in my opinion, a great move if they pull it off, because it undercuts any thought that the democrats have a mandate for anything they want to do.
You know Bush won't abandon the guys in Iraq, even though Rumsfeld is gone. By doing this now, it's the new story, NOT the democrats winning. The democrats probably can't take credit for it, because he hasn't talked to them yet, and he's said he was working this last week.
So this is all about putting Bush back in charge of the story, for putting Iraq front and center, for Bush framing the debate as success in Iraq, that the democrats have to stop using the war as a political tool, and actually step up and take their responsibility seriously to win the war.
I don't know if he'll succeed, but holding out for a few months wasn't going to help things any.
I don't know how we can be happy, we lost the election. I know Rush believes the democrats don't care about the country, and maybe they don't, but Bush saying they do helps set up the idea that they should, and that they better, or else.