Tuesday, March 09, 2004
NY Times Scoop: President in "good mood"!
Dawkins writes:
How does the Times' Elisabeth Bumiller get this kind of access? How does she twist the arms of these anonymous White House sources into giving her all the hottest dish on all the behind-the-scenes executive machinations we follow so intently?
However she gets it, we love it!
See her spill the beans in today's "White House Letter," entitled, "Bush Ready and Bursting to Bring It On"!
Bumiller, craftily winning the confidence of Republican campaign officials, reveals that the president is active in campaign decision-making!
Stay tuned for next week's "White House Letter" for more of that unvarnished inside dope!
posted by Blicero : 3/09/2004 02:28:00 AM
How does the Times' Elisabeth Bumiller get this kind of access? How does she twist the arms of these anonymous White House sources into giving her all the hottest dish on all the behind-the-scenes executive machinations we follow so intently?
However she gets it, we love it!
See her spill the beans in today's "White House Letter," entitled, "Bush Ready and Bursting to Bring It On"!
Bumiller, craftily winning the confidence of Republican campaign officials, reveals that the president is active in campaign decision-making!
"I don't think there are any major decisions coming out of the campaign that he's not making," said one Republican official close to the re-election effort…. "You don't have a situation where the president is removed, as maybe his father might have been."In another reportorial coup, Bumiller breaks the story on the President's unusually good moods!
White House officials described the president last week as in an unusually good mood, and revved up to engage politically after a protracted weigh-in on the sidelines of the primaries.And...
Mr. Bush was in an equally good mood at a $25,000-a-person fund-raiser for the Republican National Committee last Wednesday at the Bel Air home of A. Jerrold Perenchio, the chairman and chief executive of Univision Communications, the leading Spanish-language television network in the United States.And...!
Mr. Bush was in such a good mood last week, Republicans said, that he took the unusual action of calling Mr. Kerry to congratulate him on Tuesday night, after the senator swept 9 of 10 states to become the presumptive Democratic nominee.And...?!?!
Finally, Mr. Bush may have been in a really good mood this past week because he ignored the annual Gridiron dinner, a 119-year tradition of Washington journalists, for a meeting with President Vicente Fox of Mexico at the Bush ranch in Crawford, Tex.There you have it! Our forward-looking president, perpetually in a "good mood," ready to fight a positive and upbeat campaign against that dour, bad-mood "senator from Massachusetts who has a record of weakening national defense and raising taxes."
Stay tuned for next week's "White House Letter" for more of that unvarnished inside dope!
posted by Blicero : 3/09/2004 02:28:00 AM
