[gridlock]

People on this forum were all over the President and Karl Rove on Monday and Tuesday for not forcefully countering this charge, right out of the gate. But now we see that John F'n Kerry has made this losing point the lynch-pin of his campaign. If the President had countered quickly and Kerry had not sensed "weakness", the Donks would have taken the shot and would have moved on to domestic policy by now. But now we go into the critical last weekend with the entire debate being conducted on turf friendly to the President.

Sometimes when you have a winning hand, you check instead of betting the pot. You want to draw your opponent in to the point where he can't afford to give up on his hand, then you lay your winning cards on the table.

Moral Of The Story: Don't play high stakes poker with President Bush...

Full Disclosure: I would put two months salary on the table for the inestimable pleasure of playing high stakes poker with President Bush.

[Dahoser]

No doubt W is a fine poker player. I'd love to see him at the final table on WPT. Nevertheless, my conspiracy tin foil tells me the Clintonistas subversives (hey, that's redundant) made sure Lurch bit into this extremely hard.