It's all over the rest of the blogs, so it might as well be here, too:
Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.
All I have to add is that I've tried, ever since Geo. was governor, to figure out whether he was evil, stupid, or both. James Fallows recently tried to make the case in the The Atlantic Monthly that Geo. was actually "keenly intelligent," using as evidence some old tapes from his debates with Ann Richards:
The man on the debate platform looked and sounded smart and in control. If you had to guess which of the two candidates had won the debate scholarship to college and was about to win the governorship, you would choose Bush.
Fallows' evidence for this astounding claim doesn't really convince this old debater (He fluently stated that schools' mission should be "excellence"! He said he was against casino gambling and that he didn't want to elaborate! He refused to talk about his business failures!) and Fallows surely feels like a dupe today. This latest and greatest Bushism certainly gives the final lie to the theory that Bush is astutely pulling the wool over his enemies' eyes and forcing them to "misunderestimate" him. If there's a reason why Geo. comparing himself and his allies with Al Qaeda and directly stating that he's trying to harm America actually helps him, it certainly eludes me.
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