Monday, 5 March 2012

Drifting away from hard truths

`The president was awakened at 5:30 this morning by his nationalsecurity adviser," said a White House spokesman during a pressbriefing about the bombings of the American embassies in Africa.

And every subsequent report mentioned that the president wasawakened early, as well as how many hours (six) he had spent in theOval Office before his Rose Garden speech on the bombings. It was asif we all were relieved to have a discussion of the president'snocturnal life that did not include the president's nocturnalemissions, and an accounting of the president's Oval Officeactivities that actually involved the national interest.

The president vowed "to bring those …

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