Wednesday, September 19, 2007

The President Goes to War Over "Betray Us"   [Kathryn Jean Lopez]

Kate O'Beirne and I just got back from a meeting with the president in the Roosevelt Room of the White House for a small group of conservative journalists.

There was a lot of ground covered, and the president was in a serious but confident mood — clearly sending the message that this administration is not close to over. 

President Bush may have been most emphatic though when it came to the topic of “those left wing ads” attacking General Petraeus. The president brought the infamous New York Times MoveOn ad up without prompting, saying of his reaction to it: “I was incredulous at first and then became mad.”

“It is one thing to attack me — which is fine,” the president said. But the president's view the attack on Petraeus as “an attack on men and women in uniform.”

He said pointedly: “I was looking for the voices from leadership on the Hill and I didn't hear too many.” He said, “This is wrong.” 

The president added that the ad “was uncalled for...and so was the silence” from the Democrats on the Hill.

09/19 03:30 PMShare