[GreatOne]

I agree with you wholeheartedly, in that Bush should have said SOMETHING. However, as aptly pointed out by an e-mailer to one of the columnists on NRO's "The Corner", if Bush had said something, the Kerry campaign has an instant commerical, and the headlines for today are essentially the title to my thread, and would be brought up constantly throughout the campaign.

[Arthur McGowan]

I believe Bush is actually a humble man who knows his failures and mistakes--but he also knows exactly what you've said--any explicit admission of an error is an instant Kerry commercial, and will be played 500 times a day for a week.

[GraniteStateConservative]

So, that's the standard? Anything that actually is damaging or is made damaging by Kerry should be kept quiet? Would we tolerate that from X42?