March 25, 2004 October is Koufax Pledge Drive month

They Should Be Doing Stand Up

The New York Daily News has an article about how the Clarke testimony and book have knocked the President’s reelection campaign off stride:

President Bush's best campaign week of 2004 came to an abrupt end when explosive charges that he was snoozing at the wheel before 9/11 knocked the White House back on the defensive.

"This guy popped up at the wrong time for us," one Bush counselor complained. "We had [John] Kerry on the run, and now we have to deal with this distraction."

The Bushies didn't see it coming because the frosty-haired terror czar's testimony to the 9/11 commission was relatively benign.


There was one other reason that the Bush campaign was caught off guard:
One aide said the White House was further blindsided because they never expected 9/11 to be politicized.

Hahahaha. Robin Williams has nothing on those guys.

Posted by Dwight Meredith at March 25, 2004 06:26 PM | TrackBack
Comments

Uh-huh. Blindsided by a book they read three months before any of us did. Which if they'd released it then wouldn't have interfered with the campaign in the least. Uh-huh.

Posted by: Elayne Riggs at March 25, 2004 06:50 PM