May 7, 2003

Meow!
'Up to his usual stunts.
'You do have to hand to it to the guy. He swooped on to the flight deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln last week - the most spectacular entrance since the last Broadway production of Hello Dolly! - and he did look, in his bomber jacket, quite fantastically butch. As Lincoln himself said at Gettysburg (wrongly, that time), no one will remember a word the president said. But they will remember the scene and his smile and the cheering soldiery and his bomber jacket, and believe that George W Bush had just defeated all those pesky Eye-raqis single-handed. Of course, it is remotely possible that the American electorate will decide that there are some political stunts so blatantly manipulative that they are actually intolerable. But we can probably rule that one out.' - Matthew Engel, in the Guardian.



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