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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Selectric II who wrote (500303)	11/29/2003 1:29:40 AM
From: Hope Praytochange	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

CRAWFORD, Texas, Nov. 28 -- Administration officials said Bush enjoys surprises and showing himself in charge, and Thursday's whirlwind trip involved both. The president told reporters on Air Force One afterward that he had watched the landing from the cockpit and had spent weeks quizzing his pilot and military and security officials about the trip's feasibility, insisting that it be scrapped if it endangered any Americans. "I was pretty tough," he said. Bush smiled as he stepped from Air Force One at 4 a.m. Friday, as cable TV networks provided live coverage of his return to Texas. The 33-hour foray carried political as well as logistical risks, however. Bush's aides engaged in temporary secrecy and deception about his whereabouts, and Democrats said it might make it easier to portray his administration as driven by visual images. Donna Brazile, a Democratic strategist who managed Al Gore's presidential campaign in 2000, said the journey is likely to temporarily enhance the administration's image as "the most scripted, most disciplined White House in the history of America," Sen. John F. Kerry (Mass.) said in New Hampshire that Thursday's visit to Baghdad was "terrific . . . the right thing for a president to do." But he added that "for the next 364 days, we have a problem with our policy." Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (Conn.) said on a New Hampshire radio program that he did not "have anything political or partisan to say about it." Sen. John Edwards (N.C.) issued a statement calling the visit "a nice thing for the president to do." Retired Gen. Wesley K. Clark said he is "glad he went." A noncandidate, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), said during her own trip to Iraq that