In the
Boston Globe 3/7/2004
Obviously, President Bush planned it all this way.
For the week when his reelection campaign was launched with the most immense TV advertising campaign ever, the idea was to have his administration top it all off with an announcement that there was almost no job growth last month.
You can also just imagine the meetings during which his advisers plotted to ignite a controversy over how tasteless it would be to use images of the destruction and death from 9/11 as reelection props. Another round of mass murder in Iraq was icing on the cake.
The grand themes of his campaign rollout were supposed to be trust, a return to prosperity, security, and reassurance.
Feeling better already?
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