Well, folks, hang on! This Tim Russert thing was nuthin' more than a piece of Bush PR re-selection stategy. What his handlers have cleverly done is go into a think tank mode and asked "What are our liabilities?". And there are quite a few. When is the best time to get them out in the open? Now, or in the heat of the campiagn?

Ahhhh, like now... Gte 'um out. Defuse 'um and then when the Dems hit Bush on his failings during the campaign he will just yawn and say "That's old business, lets talk about where American needs to go from here..."

Hey, if I were running Bush's campaign, I'd be doing ther same thing.

And my hats off to Tim Russert, a dyed in the wool Republican, fir his Academy Award level performance in trying to look like he was really asking the tough questions. Had Russert been as intense as he was on Howard Dean, Bush would have called the entire thing off and had Russert sent to Guantanamo....

Bobert