Opie Was Listening

Me, last Thursday:

Leave aside that the ‘Administration’s plans for the country’ have not remotely been ‘upended.’ Remember that press conference back in the spring when reporter after reporter demanded that Bush admit he ‘made a mistake’ by liberating Iraq? Remember how he resolutely, and properly, refused to do so, most of all to deny the other side the sound bite they craved for advertising fodder thereafter?

Well, now he’s given it to them. ‘I made a miscalculation…in…Iraq’ will be plastered everywhere between now and November 2nd.

John Edwards today:

After months of saying he'd done everything right on Iraq and foreign policy, the president acknowledged just the other day that he miscalculated the way in which he waged the war in Iraq. He believes that he may have won the war too quickly and that was a miscalculation.

Didn’t take long, did it?

“I made a miscalculation…in…Iraq” and “I don’t think we can win the war on terror.”

Dubya would have been better off puking all over himself instead. That mess would have been a lot easier to clean up.

UPDATE: From the Democratic response to Rudy Giuliani tonight:

DNC Communications Director Jano Cabrera said in response: ‘Rudy Giuliani tonight stood in the shadow of ground zero and praised the President who said we cannot win the war on terror.’

I think the President has upchucked his version of “I voted against the $87 billion before I voted against it.” I really do.