One day a President gives a speech and says a word. A few days later he gives another speech somewhere else, in another context, and that word isn't in the second speech.
AP headline is that Bush "drops reference to" that word.
It's a different speech! Not all speeches will contain the same words. It's not news when they don't. Also, using a word in speech #1 but not in speech #2 doesn't mean he has "dropped" reference to that word. It can always show up again in speeches #3, #4, etc... The AP seems not to be aware of this basic fact.
Yup. Stupid, indeed. More AP wishful-thinking and Bush-bashing.
Yes, it does. Did you hear that speech? It sounded like Bush was struggling for the "right" words to say, and came up with the "extremist" word again. So, yes, it's true, he dropped the "Islamofacist" word.