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Finding interlocutors on the telephone wasn't always this hard for Ms. Burlingame. After her op-ed appeared in the Journal in June, she received calls from political players in Washington, asking her to drop her opposition to Mr. Bernstein's project. She is prepared, only, to name John Bridgeland--a former director of the Domestic Policy Council in President Bush's White House, deputy policy director for the Bush-Cheney 2000 campaign, and, after 9/11, the first director of the USA Freedom Corps Office. He called twice "to discourage me . . . no, not discourage, to 'explain what was actually going to be happening [at the Freedom Center],' and that I'd 'got it all wrong.' I said to him, 'Are you aware of some of the exhibits that they're talking about?' " He wasn't. "Here's a man who didn't know what was happening, yet he was picking up the phone and trying to effect an outcome."

It wasn't only Liberals who wanted the "Freedom Center". Why would a person connected to the Bush-Cheney 2000 campaign advocate for it as well?

Wonder what the money trail looks like....

I imagine that the Bush/Cheney guy was fed a soothing line about the "Freedom Center." I heard some of the early proponents of the museum pontificating on a couple of interview shows, and they went on and on about how it was so important to tell the "Story of Freedom." Intellectually lazy and naive people assumed that this was going to be something like an American history lesson with exhibits similar to the D-Day Museum.

It wasn't until Ms. Burlingame got involved and the web site got started that the public found out what was really going to be in the exhibits. The list of those involved told me all I needed to know.

She is quite right about people losing their anger and clarity that they had right after 9/11. We knew the leftists were not going to stick with the President, but quite a few on the right seem to suddenly have other priorities. We are still at war, and that should be our first concern.

How helpful of him to "explain that she'd got it all wrong." I just love people like these who want to tell people what they can, or cannot, think. I run into them every so often, and they are almost always liberals.