Posted on 11/10/2002 5:26:04 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Nov. 18 issue Election Day dawned in excellent fashion for a president leading a war on world terror and a political campaign for control of Congress. Thanks to a well-timed leak from the Pentagon, the morning newspapers featured what amounted to a riveting, last-minute campaign ad, a story (with a dramatic picture) about how a CIA Predator drone had incinerated a carload of Al Qaeda in Yemen. By late afternoon, George W. Bush got more good news. Harvey Pitt, his gasoline-on-the-fire chairman of the SEC, had saved Bush the trouble of firing him by voluntarily resigning.
WITH NIGHTFALL CAME the fun part, a dinner party upstairs in the White House, where the president would gather with allies and aides to toast his and Lauras 25th anniversary amid an elegant tableau of white candles and white roses. After dessert, they all would monitor what Karl Rove, his consigliere for 29 years, had predicted would be the happy results of a meticulously calculated Republican campaign effort, nearly two years in the making.
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WHAT "experts"????? |
Howard Fineman?????
I hope they never "get it." They'll keep losing.
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