Listened in to a conversation on the bus, between the bus-driver and a bus-driver. It seems to reflect a bit of what is going on politically in the country.

“Now they’re going after Bush’s military service. Sheesh.”
“Right.”
(I tuned out for various reasons, but it appears that she was going over the various ideas of what the released records mean.)
“I dunno. Every election cycle I’ve seen we don’t really get the issues, we end up focusing on personalities. Every time.”
“Sure. …
I saw Bush on Meet the Press. It looks to me that he doesn’t really care about any issue but the war. The only time he has any passion is when he’s talking about war. Nothing comes out when he talks about everything else. He seems unable to really focus on anything else.”
“It’s a problem.”

……………………….

Perhaps we can christian this problem “the Bush Effect.”

His assertion “I’m a war-time president” seems to have gone over like a lead balloon.

A Special House of Representatives Kentucky election is coming up… Originally, the Republicans framed it as a showing of Bush’s strength — they’ve backed off of that since the Democrat looks like he’s going to win.

And meanwhile, things are getting restless, or so say the Bush partisans:
The suspicion is that his 2004 campaign organization, a fund-raising juggernaut, is otherwise inadequate.

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