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Shoot, I missed it. Was it a good swipe?

I did come in just in time to see the tail end of a Jeb commercial (Pensacola station is only an hour from here). It's adorable! A lady has evidently called the gov's office and expressed her concern about a particular traffic intersection with children crossing ont their way to school. She and Jeb are standing looking at the heavy traffic and Jeb says he knew what needed to happen. In the next scene there's a bank of new traffic lights at that intersection and a little band of children who yell into the camera: "Thank you Governor Jeb!". Precious.

Was it a good swipe?

Yes it was. Wish I could remember it word for word. Something like, it makes good foder for late night talk shows, but I'll leave details up to the professionals at the DOD.

I'll get the transcript when they post it on msnbc.

Have seen the Thank you Gov. Jeb commerical, like it very much. I hope the Gov.'s people are busy making new ones with McBride and Reno on tape saying this latest election fiasco it Jeb's fault. He didn't spend any money on improvements and how it's his responsibility to run the election. Both points being flat out lies.

Meet the Press excerpt:

MR. RUSSERT: On September 11th, former President Clinton appeared on “The David Letterman Show” and offered some words of advice. Let me show you what they were about the war:

(Videotape, September 11, 2002):
FORMER PRES. BILL CLINTON: You’re looking at a couple of weeks of bombing, and then I’d be astonished if this campaign took more than a week, astonished.
(End videotape)

MR. RUSSERT: Do you agree with that?

SEC’Y POWELL: Oh, I’m not going to comment on that. I will let our military authorities and Secretary Rumsfeld, in due course, comment on what the nature of any campaign might be. We’re not talking about war right now. We’re talking about the declaration of purpose that the president put before the United Nations the other day. He retains his options, and I can assure you that my that colleagues in the Pentagon, who I know very well and I know exactly what they’re doing right now, will put together a plan, if it ever comes to war, that we’ll try to resolve it as quickly and as decisively as possible.

MR. RUSSERT: Ken Adelman, who worked in a former Republican administration, said it would be a cakewalk.

SEC’Y POWELL: You know, there are a lot of people who think combat’s going to be a cakewalk, but it seems to me you’d better let the military leaders who have to actually run this campaign decide how to conduct such a campaign, if such a campaign is necessary.

MR. RUSSERT: One concern that was raised is if we begin to build up for a military operation, would Saddam Hussein try his own pre-emptive strike. Again, here’s President Clinton:
(Videotape, September 11, 2002):

MR. CLINTON: But if he’s got these stocks of chemical and biological weapons and if he knows he’s toast, don’t you think he’ll use what he can and give away what he can’t to people who will be using them on us for years to come, so he can have the last laugh?
(End videotape)

MR. RUSSERT: Would we, in effect, put Saddam in a position where he would use his chemical and biological weapons before we had a chance to be ready?

SEC’Y POWELL: These are all hypotheticals which are charming to talk about in late-night talk shows, but I think that a serious show like this morning, we should not just wildly speculate about what he might or might not do. We know what capability he has and you can be sure that all of that has been factored into whatever planning we are doing now. Link

Take that clintoon!