[Bahbah]

or fall back on the more reliable "this wouldn't have happened if Bush weren't so secret and criminal" campaign? I'm leaning towards the later being the take away

I'm leaning there with you. It is certainly the case that the approvals of these foreign investment deals is done under the radar, but there are some pretty solid reasons for this, and to top that off, it is a creation of the very bunch that is now complaining about its "secrecy." It still amazes me, however, that someone working on this was not astute enough politically to realize that putting the words Arab and ports together was at least going to create a problem of perception. The President was ill served in this as he was with the Abu Graib mess.

[MNJohnnie]

I disagree. Let's put the blame where it belongs. The Junk Media did a horrible job of reporting. They basically took a Democrat Election Year press release and published it without question. They then tuned out ALL correction of their errors for the 1st half of the week. It wasn't until about Thursday the FACTS actually started being reported in the Junk Journalist Coverage. Kind of hard for the WH to get in front of a story like this. That would of required clairvoyance on their part to go right from disarming the Cheney hype to preempting this story.

Conservatives might as well make peace with the reality that this is HOW the Press is going to act from now on. There is no magic bullet someone can fire to slay the Junk Journalist Monster for us There will be NO fair and balanced converge no matter what the White House does to try to preempt these attacks. People need to wake up to the reality that the Dinosaur Media is complete and actively ON the DNC's side now.