Cheer up. The damage is not done. Goodness, what gloom.
It isn't quite gloom, I think the President will still win re-election. But that editor at Newsweak was right...the press is good for 15 points against Bush. They will have at least succeeded in turning a Reaganesque blowout into a fairly close run thing.
Elections are decided by 'the middle' they heard loud and clear that 'Bush lied' 'Bush Mislead the American people' 'those 16 words' and most of them will never hear or recognize that it was Bush who told the truth and his accusers and the press who were lying. The damage was done. It was not fatal, but it was damage.