[dogbyte12]

It's useless without context and inflection.

The President could have been snarky and snippy, or he could have been compassionate when he said, "That isn't what I asked you". Just reading the text, it honestly sounds snippy to me in text. But, again, lack of context.

[rhombus]

Agreed, context and inflection are essential. I expect I would have been snippy too given the past 6 years. Even so that wasn't my first thought when I read it. I guess it shows we hear what we want to hear when we read these things.

[Miss Marple]

Here's another thing: we don't know that this is actually what President Bush said. Although Webb's people have been complaining that the White House leaked the original story, that leak had to have come from the Webb camp.

Why do I say that? It is because Webb's THOUGHTS ("I wanted to slug him") were quoted.

Therefore, the President could have said something like, "I know how you feel, but I just wanted to know how your son is doing."

Democrats lie. It is part of their fabric of being.