[Echo Talon]

Couldn't Mr. Bush have said even as much as ''faithfully interpret, and not rewrite, the Constitution''? That's not much to ask, and such a statement would have been far more concrete.

He could have if he wanted ABC, NBC, CBS, NYT, LATimes, CNN, MSNBC and the rest all over him...
Maybe if you were trying to be stealthy you would wear a bright orange jumpsuit?

[SAJ]

Ah, so you concede that the president sometimes cannot tell the whole truth. Good.

However, it's up for grabs whether it matters much whether or not the alphabetsoupnet crawls all over him. He's not running for anything any longer. The alphabetsoup crowd aren't ever going to like him or anyone to the right of Susan Collins, so why should Mr. Bush even consider them?

Perhaps I'm very thick, but I fail to see how ''stealth'' in this matter can work either to his or to his party's advantage, whereas it's quite obvious how ''stealth'' might well work to his disadvantage (this whole thread, for instance).