Bush had a nice sense of timing, didn't he? The point was, he backed that war all the way, except when it came to risking his own body. That's cowardice.

Maybe it was a kind of cowardice for someone like Gore who was against the war to allow hinmself to be part of it, but it's a different kind of cowardice, if that's what it was, and you can read it as a kind of courage too.

I can't imagine any reading of it that would mean Bush doesn't have a yellow streak running down his back - and his efforts these last few days confirm that. He's frit. Maybe he'll make it to the White House. But he's a lame duck already.