[My Favorite Headache]

Great article...BUMP

[Cicero]

Certainly many good points. But I wonder about this:

He has never really stopped campaigning, except for a relatively brief stretch after Sept. 11. And, according to one recent calculation, he is surpassing Clinton as a political fund-raiser and in the number of political events he has attended at this stage in his presidency.

I simply can't imagine that this is true. Clinton went to three or four fund raisers a week for eight years. Bush may possibly have raised more money, but not be selling the Lincoln Bedroom or going on the rubber chicken circuit.

Maybe I've missed something, but it seems to me that Bush has gone for weeks and months at a time without campaigning--very much unlike clinton.

This simply seems untrue, unless you count as political events Bush's holding little-league ball games or visiting schools and national parks. But that's not the same thing as celebrity dinners.

[Blue Screen of Death]

One of Bush's greatest advantages is that he is following Clinton. After 8 years of Clintonian Hell, George and Laura are such a pleasure to watch. When Bill-Hill were president, I wore out the mute switch on 4 TV controllers. I could not stand to see or hear either of them. Laura acts and looks like a First Lady is suppose to. While there are things I do not agree with, I do think George is what Presidents are suppose to be.

[dyed_in_the_wool]

For Cheney, the reverse is the case. He is so intricately involved in everything that goes on, the question isn't whether he has influence; it's whether Bush has been willing to overrule Cheney on matters of national importance. When '04 rolls around, look for the Bush team to reveal a few times that the president rejected Cheney's advice and was proved right - if such cases exist.

I want to ask 'Why?'. I mean, this (even if it were true) would be stupid. If something sounds false. And it's negative sounds false. It's usually made up.
This sounds like he just made it up.

[AlienCrossfirePlayer]

Regarding Myth Two: Did anybody notice that this consortium finished work some eight months after the inauguration? It is not practical to count and recount into the new president’s term. SCOTUS made the point that timeliness does matter.

[foreverfree]

Who would have predicted that the man who didn't know the name of the president of Pakistan during the campaign would be transformed into a foreign-policy president?

Dubya also got it wrong in one of the presidential debates...

"'All three of the men responsible for the [James] Byrd murder will pay the ultimate price, they will pay with their lives,' Texas governor George W. Bush told the audience during the second debate... . As the credits began to roll on the second debate, Bush operatives had rushed out to the press room. They needed to amend the candidate's statement, they said; only two of the killers had been sentenced to death, not all three [the other got life]." SOURCE: A Death in Texas by Dina Temple-Raston, Henry Holt, 2002, page 261-2.

foreverfree

[looney tune]

George W. is nobody's fool.

'nuff said.