[Wiseghy]

The tactic here seems to be to show an artful turnaround.
Rather than swim upstream against the mountian of bad, inaccurate press, he's going to roll with it and illustrate humility in, dare I say it, Clinton style. His kick *ss posture now on relief and long term commitment to the entire gulf region will be turned against the Democrats now and eliminate its use as a weapon for '06.

The Dems will also be unable to apply the "out-of-touch" and "in denial" labels to a President that acknowledges error.

Eventually, the word about political game playing in LA will come out, then it will be difficult for the Dems to swim against the stream.

[softwarecreator]

Right.  This wasn't some "spur of the moment" admission, they discussed this one thoroughly over the last few days.  There's a reason he's saying this and it'll be interesting to see what the final outcome will be.

[Paradox]

The tactic here seems to be to show an artful turnaround.

Strategery. The MSM (well, CNN) think they have him admitting to something really awful, really bad (thus their pathetic BREAKING NEWS email). What a sad bunch of loons. They are betting that this will be Carter-esque (Iran hostage rescue), I think its more Trumanesque..