Reply #2: I think their lack of graciousness will be noted by the independents in the middle

[karynnj]

The media will have some success with making it seem that this was a common 10 year effort, when the truth is that Bush took his eyes off Afghanistan and OBL, after failing at Tora Bora, because he bought into the neo con agenda. At this point, I honestly think that he genuinely believed in it - and felt, with almost religious fervor that he was doing God's work. He really did give that more importance than catching OBL.

This was most noticeable after 2004, because he did care about the politics - but even then their were his statements of saying he didn't think about catching OBL that Kerry called him on in the third debate. (Kerry cited date and place, when Bush said it was one of his "exaggerations", but there was little media coverage afterward that Kerry was correct or that this was important - they were too busy soothing Lynn Cheney's hurt feelings that Kerry said her out of the closet daughter, who coordinated many anti-gay referendums, was a "lesbian". (My two lesbian daughters would be angry if I were angry that some one said they were lesbians.)