[verga]

Among the pros on our side, the immediate assessment was that Bush bobbled the ball by not promptly ending his PR session with the kiddies. That Michael Moore and other adversaries used it against him and the GOP confirms that assessment as well-founded.

Ahh yes the unnamed invisible pros that like to monday morining quarterback like you are. Get back under the bridge troll, the billy goats gruff are coming.

[Rockingham]

It was not “Monday morning quarterbacking.” In the circles I was in, the political game was ongoing on 9/11 and Bush’s reactions to it would affect the political environment we and our candidates would have to operate in. My brother’s reaction that night was also that the prolonged session with the kids would come back to haunt Bush and the GOP — as it did.