Dowd: Send in the Gowns

[kskiska]

The president and the first lady said the twins weren't public figures, yet here are their figures in public.

The strapless sisters are helping a campaign that's increasingly strapped. Barbara and Jenna, glamming like the Hilton sisters, are in gowns in Vogue, and in vogue on the trail, giving Dad some much needed cover by uncovering their shoulders.

With even Republicans like Pat Roberts, the head of the Senate Intelligence Committee, questioning whether the president would have launched a war against Iraq if he'd known how weak his case was, Mr. Bush needs all the distractions he can get.

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When the British report came out yesterday declaring that Saddam Hussein had no significant W.M.D., or perhaps no W.M.D., Tony Blair accepted "full personal responsibility" for "the way the issue was presented and, therefore, for any errors made."

Mr. Bush, by contrast, took full personal irresponsibility. Still pressing the preposterous case that he has made America safer, even though we are inundated with threats from Al Qaeda, and that he is winning the war against terror, even though there are more terrorist attacks, the president had to go farther afield to find a sufficiently enthusiastic audience.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/15/opinion/15DOWD.html?hp

[Demeter]

1. Talk About Scraping the Bottom of the Barrel

Too overgroomed delinquents are not going to do much for this campaign.

Congratulations to Maureen Dowd: not one snide reference to any Clinton, not even Chelsea. The intervention must be working!