Froomkin: Bush gets nuanced

[Cocoa]

excellent take on Bush and the terror reforms. I wonder how many whores, who've been making funny faces to show how "confused" they are by Kerry's position on Iraq, will comment on Bush's position on these reforms?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36495-2004Aug3.html

President Bush yesterday embraced the Sept. 11 commission's two most significant suggestions, but with some major qualifications.

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In their stump speeches, Bush and Vice President Cheney repeatedly mock Democratic nominee John F. Kerry for his heavily nuanced statement on the massive security and reconstruction appropriation for Iraq and Afghanistan in 2003, which Kerry supported as long as it required Iraq to eventually repay some of the reconstruction money.

"I actually did vote for the $87 billion, before I voted against it," Kerry said, in what has become arguably the greatest laugh line of the Bush-Cheney campaign.

The risk for Bush is that when it comes to overhauling intelligence agencies, the president's record suggests he was against the proposals before he was for them.