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If You Break it, You Pay For It, Mr. President
Bush hits the campaign trail stumping for two troubled candidates just as Iraq and his Republican Party seem to be falling apart simultaneously
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I spent two days traveling with President Bush last week as he tried to rally
his troops for the coming election. It was a dispiriting experience; the days
were before-and-after snapshots of his Administration. The first day was what
Bush probably expected his presidency would be when he was elected in 2001: a
jaunt through North Carolina, visiting a magnet school and a wonderful camp
for children with chronic diseases established by retired Nascar star Richard
Petty, followed by the inevitable fund-raising dinner. That was George W. Bush
as I had first known him,...
