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To: CYBERKEN who wrote (12152)	10/3/2006 1:52:24 PM
From: Mr. Palau	Respond to of 14758

White House denies Bush called Ohio election official 'a nut' Associated Press The White House denies President Bush called Ohio's chief election officer Ken Blackwell "a nut" on election night in 2004, as a new book by a celebrated Washington journalist states. In "State of Denial," which criticizes the president's handling of the war in Iraq, writer Bob Woodward, known for his reporting on Watergate, recounts a scene inside the White House at 3 a.m. as Bush waited for results from Ohio. The state ultimately clinched Bush's re-election. Bush was incensed about waiting for a statement from Blackwell, Ohio's Republican secretary of state who is running for governor in the November election, Woodward wrote on Page 347. The passage reads: "'I'm the president of the United States,' Bush said fuming, 'waiting on a secretary of state who is a nut.'" White House spokesman Tony Snow said Bush didn't make the remark. "It didn't happen," Snow said Monday at an appearance in northeast Ohio. Blackwell, who was honorary co-chairman of Bush's re-election campaign, expressed doubt Monday that Bush made the comment. "If you get the president to confirm that he said that, then I'll respond to it," he said. Blackwell trails Democrat U.S. Rep. Ted Strickland by double digits in numerous political polls. Just days after its release, "State of Denial" went into its third printing, with 900,000 copies in print, publisher Simon & Schuster has said. Republicans have disputed the book, which suggests Bush misled the country about the severity of the violence in Iraq and that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice brushed off a CIA briefing about terror threats just about two months before the Sept. 11 attacks. Rice's chief spokesman says the information presented at the briefing was not new