[GretchenEE]

In a way I feel like this is a test of the American public - will they be smart enough to see through the partisan attack it so obviously is, or will they fall for the misleading headlines and lies. I'm not optimistic.

Nor am I, so I have been saturating America with prayers today that we will see through this garbage and realize that it is not possible for Bush to have been so callous as to stand by and allow thousands of the people die, on whose behalf he took an oath to protect and defend their Constitution, and uphold it --- especially taking into mind the Constitutional provision for the national defense. On its face it is utterly ridiculous. But as you say, how many average Americans (God help us!) would look one sentence past the slander without a little help from above?

[olliemb]

Tonite with Brian Williams, Tim Russert commented that everyone knows that nomatter who the president was, that NO ONE had any doubts that if the president knew something that he would have done something about it. That no one was saying that the president would willingly imperil the American people . In fact he said that this was an intelligence problem with the different agencies not reporting to each other.