Newsweek - How Bush Did It

Newsweek ^ | 11-18-02 Issue | By Howard Fineman

[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 Laura’s 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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[I_saw_the_light]

I thought a 7 am meeting was late for him?

[Fintan]

In a historic win, Dubya defied the experts once again.

WHAT "experts"?????

Howard Fineman?????

[Eva]

Howard Fineman explained on election night that while Bush appears to be a bumbler with poor elocution skills in public, he is actually very articulate in a folksy manner in private. Fineman attributed Bush's public speaking errors to nerves, not lack of intelligence as the detractors would have us believe. Fineman said that he gained a new respect for Bush, having followed him around the past year.

[Kath]

I guess if Time is to be believed Bush held the meeting in his bedroom. Don't you just love the liberal media.

[pray4liberty]

What a bunch of jerks. They will never get it.

I hope they never "get it." They'll keep losing.