Apparently President Bush and his campaign didn’t want to make it three days straight without any comment from the commander-in-chief about the al Qaqaa business.
But it wasn’t pretty.
No, it probably won’t surprise you that I thought it was weak. But I really don’t think many of the president’s supporters (at least not those who still have any critical faculties left) will be too heartened by it either.
What I jotted down just as I was listening was a line about Kerry’s “wild charges about missing explosives” and how Kerry’s “denigrating the actions of our troops in the field without knowing the facts.”
Beside that it seemed to be a mix of ‘Not my fault’, ‘We still don’t know what happened’, ‘Maybe they were already gone, ‘Criticizing me means criticizing the troops’ and then on top of that some more mumbojumbo about Tora Bora.
I almost expected him to start whining about media bias.
