For those of you with cable, today on Meet the Press Russert vs. Bush in likely tee ball match.

I'll read American Politics Journal's Pundit Pap to get the distilled version.

With that, I am off to feed.

pure bs UPDATE! MTP Transcript posted

My favorite item:

Russert: There is a sense in the country that the intelligence that was given was ambiguous, and that you took it and molded it and shaped it your opponents have said "hyped" it and rushed to war.

President Bush: Yeah.

Oops.

Russert should have followed this potentially fruitful line of questioning.

Bush also makes it sound like it was him on the ground in Iraq that removed Saddam. And then there is the issue of Iraqi independence. Bush made it seem like Iraq is going to have a 'conditional' democracy. That certainly couldn't the case. ;)

They managed to cover a lot of ground. Although Bush's appearance is unlikely to give him a temporary boost in the polls, from reading the transcript he didn't do that badly. Not much new stuff, but then.....

..Go ahead and read it.