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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 on March 25, 2004 06:26 PM |

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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 | March 25, 2004 06:50 PM

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