exactly right. he has allowed himself to be defined.
but its not just him, the entire white house political team stinks in this regard. they don't even have the sense to get rid of Scott McClellan, who is a terrible press spokesman.
Absolutely. There are so many messes. The anti-Bush's are chipping away with misinterpretations about Czech/Atta, "al Qaeda in Iraq as a significant reason to go to war, nukes, etc. It's embarassing. Perhaps worse was that reflexive and confusing response Tenet was forced to give about Bush's State of the Union speech, which was hasty, undue, and gave a semblance to the idea that "Bush lied" even though he didn't. The failure to state and define our problems in the UN after repeated embarassments there is simply astounding. Maybe Powell still hopes he'll be loved in Paris someday.
The Admin. team seems to say "just call Iraq the war on terrorism and stay the course." As you know, Bush's father's "stay the course" plan was so successful...
It all gives Kerry an opening to pretend he's any different than Bush by just claiming he's going to be different.
It's very embarassing. Bush is lucky his opponent is such a patently insincere person.
BRING BACK ARI!!!!