[Pukin Dog]

Bush does not have to respond at all. Not to the Dems, nor to the Media. They can scream all they want, they have NO real power. Anytime Bush wants, he can steal every headline in America. The Media HATES Bush, because he does not jump, when they start screaming.

Freepers are too used to the way that Clinton responded to every little blip in the media, to every poll and focus group. Bush is not a finger in the wind President. It would help also for Freepers to remember that maybe 1 American in 1000 is keeping up with this story on the web or the Cable news networks. Anyone stupid enough to get their news from CBS, NBC, CNN, ABC or CBS is not on our side anyway.

So relax, people.

[Cacophonous]

That's a better tactic - just ignoring the media - than giving them ammo (ie, the implication he sent American troops into Iraq with less than perfect evidence). I've long been frustrated at the way the right would castate itself to the media, hoping to either calm them down or win their approval. Neither is going to happen, so to hell with them.

[Owen]

If the data is in hand, the right strategy is to release something partial in a few weeks. Something highly suggestive and perhaps a gun, but not quite a smoking gun. Allow the Dems to have some wiggle room so that they can continue to dwell on it.

Then the correct day for the release of the entire package of data is the very night the Democratic nominee gives his nomination acceptance speech at their convention. It might actually cause some of the networks to break into the speech to announce the news.

[new cruelty]

So relax, people.

You posted to the wrong person.