You have to read
this. It's a CNN article so bizzare, it's like something from The Onion.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush offered a broad defense of his foreign policy and said his message that "the world is more peaceful and more free under my leadership" will be a prominent theme of his bid for a second White House term.
Actually, I guess that's exactly the opposite of the more truthful headline provided by The Onion "Bush -- our long national nightmare of peace and prosperity is over"
Also note that in the bizzaro world of Bush, none of his current activity, including fundraising, is campaigning.
In a Rose Garden news conference Tuesday with reporters, the president asserted, however, that his re-election campaign had not yet begun, even though the Bush-Cheney team has raised more than $83 million, much of it through personal appearances by Bush at 27 fund-raisers across the country over more than five months.
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Still, by the definition that Bush offered on Tuesday, none of this amounts to political activity on his part. He differentiated between what he called "laying the groundwork for the campaign," which he said includes activities considered by many to be crucial campaign components of fund raising, organizing in states, deciding strategy and running get-out-the-vote efforts, from directly confronting his opponents.
We've reached the point where Bush feels he can say abso-freaking anything and get away with it. Raising money is not campaigning. All that activity in Iraq? That's just the world getting more peaceful.
If this guy wins, I think I will have some kind of immediate siezure.