Watch Bush tap dance around the first question to him today regarding Hamas winning big in the election. WTF did he mean by calling it a "wake up cal
January 25, 2006

Watch Bush tap dance around the first question to him today regarding Hamas winning big in the election. WTF did he mean by calling it a "wake up call to the leadership?" What does it say about the job Condi Rice has been doing over there.
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Froomkin:

President Bush this morning faced a conundrum: How to reconcile all his soaring rhetoric about democracy with the democratic election victory of a radical Islamic group he has labeled as a terrorist organization?

The answer: Spin that conundrum away The words "terrorist organization" never came out of Bush's mouth in his hastily-called news conference, just hours after it became clear that Hamas won a huge upset victory in the Palestinian elections.

Slate has more: All the President's Dodges

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