100 monkeys typing.

Nothing Political to See Here, Move Along

Before the president's remarks, White House spokesman Tony Snow said that Bush's address would not be political.

This struck some in Washington as questionable, because any president, particularly one this close to a national election, cannot so much as tie his shoes without it being seen as political.

Bush said as much himself last week in an interview.

BUSH
Across the broader Middle East, the extremists are fighting to prevent such a future. Yet America has confronted evil before, and we have defeated it -- sometimes at the cost of thousands of good men in a single battle. When Franklin Roosevelt vowed to defeat two enemies across two oceans, he could not have foreseen D-Day and Iwo Jima -- but he would not have been surprised at the outcome. When Harry Truman promised American support for free peoples resisting Soviet aggression, he could not have foreseen the rise of the Berlin Wall -- but he would not have been surprised to see it brought down. Throughout our history, America has seen liberty challenged, and every time, we have seen liberty triumph with sacrifice and determination.

Nothing political about pulling in a comparison or two to the War in Iraq or bring up Democrat ex-presidents is there? Not when you're slinging the memories of thousands of dead civilians and troops around the room like a dead cat. That'd be rude.