Misunderestimated : The President Battles Terrorism, John Kerry, and the Bush Haters
Sammon quotes the president plotting to beat the Massachusetts Democrat by turning his own words against him.
Bush reveals, for the first time, why ?I deserve a second term? and how he is encouraging Kerry to ?misunderestimate? him.
Rove details for Sammon ? Senior White House Correspondent for The Washington Times and political analyst for Fox News Channel ? the Bush campaign's strategy to paint Kerry as a condescending elitist whose ?blatant? attempts to capitalize on his Vietnam experience will ultimately backfire.
Card, the White House Chief of Staff, goes further by deriding Kerry as a JFK ?wannabe? who lacks the mettle to be president!
On-the-record: Bush faults his own father for having ?cut and run early? from Iraq after the Gulf War in 1991.
? On-the-record: Card, who has worked for both Bushes, describes ?43? as an action-oriented Texan with street smarts, while ?41? is the consummate diplomat who governed ?without bravado or braggadocio.?
? On the way to his infamous landing on an aircraft carrier, Bush toyed with his Secret Service agent by intentionally shaking the plane from side to side and then nosing downward so sharply they lifted out of their seats.
? The president's daughters, Barbara and Jenna, feared he would not survive his Thanksgiving visit to Baghdad, the secrecy of which was nearly compromised when First Lady Laura Bush inadvertently asked an out-of-the-loop Secret Service agent for her husband's location!
? On-the-record: Powell declares: ?The press is fixated on Vietnam.? This unhealthy obsession, according to Bush aides, threatens to influence the president's contest with Kerry, a decorated Vietnam veteran.
? Months before Howard Dean's ?I Have a Scream? speech, Rove quietly produced a TV spot featuring an earlier Dean outburst and found that even Democratic focus groups were turned off by the anger of the Bush haters.
Sounds like the reporting of a lot of negativity, attacking, and discrediting toward the Democrats, Kerry specifically. Doesn't sound like much in the way of analysis and criticism of specific issues, as has been the case in the "Bush-bashing" books from the likes of John Dean, Ron Suskind (with Paul O'Neill), Joseph Wilson, Richard Clarke, and Bob Woodward.
And some Wash. Times correspondent? FOX News analyst? Why not just let Rove write the thing himself?! :roll:
Sammon quotes the president plotting to beat the Massachusetts Democrat by turning his own words against him.
Bush reveals, for the first time, why ?I deserve a second term? and how he is encouraging Kerry to ?misunderestimate? him.
Rove details for Sammon ? Senior White House Correspondent for The Washington Times and political analyst for Fox News Channel ? the Bush campaign's strategy to paint Kerry as a condescending elitist whose ?blatant? attempts to capitalize on his Vietnam experience will ultimately backfire.
Card, the White House Chief of Staff, goes further by deriding Kerry as a JFK ?wannabe? who lacks the mettle to be president!
On-the-record: Bush faults his own father for having ?cut and run early? from Iraq after the Gulf War in 1991.
? On-the-record: Card, who has worked for both Bushes, describes ?43? as an action-oriented Texan with street smarts, while ?41? is the consummate diplomat who governed ?without bravado or braggadocio.?
? On the way to his infamous landing on an aircraft carrier, Bush toyed with his Secret Service agent by intentionally shaking the plane from side to side and then nosing downward so sharply they lifted out of their seats.
? The president's daughters, Barbara and Jenna, feared he would not survive his Thanksgiving visit to Baghdad, the secrecy of which was nearly compromised when First Lady Laura Bush inadvertently asked an out-of-the-loop Secret Service agent for her husband's location!
? On-the-record: Powell declares: ?The press is fixated on Vietnam.? This unhealthy obsession, according to Bush aides, threatens to influence the president's contest with Kerry, a decorated Vietnam veteran.
? Months before Howard Dean's ?I Have a Scream? speech, Rove quietly produced a TV spot featuring an earlier Dean outburst and found that even Democratic focus groups were turned off by the anger of the Bush haters.
Sounds like the reporting of a lot of negativity, attacking, and discrediting toward the Democrats, Kerry specifically. Doesn't sound like much in the way of analysis and criticism of specific issues, as has been the case in the "Bush-bashing" books from the likes of John Dean, Ron Suskind (with Paul O'Neill), Joseph Wilson, Richard Clarke, and Bob Woodward.
And some Wash. Times correspondent? FOX News analyst? Why not just let Rove write the thing himself?! :roll:
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