[jjsheridan5]

Bush would have ignored it — and so? Laughing at it in public would say more than flying into a temper.

Bush was an absolute disaster, politically. He allowed his opponents to define who he was, especially to lower-information voters, at will. He "accomplished" this, in part, by refusing to do anything other than ignore or laugh at these types of things.

A good rule of thumb, politically, would be:

1) What would Bush do?

2) Do the exact opposite.

[HiTech RedNeck]

In that case don’t go to war, don’t comfort the 9/11 victim... your formula looks ridiculous very fast!