It doesn't matter how much you polish a turd

the wapo is bound and determined to take any presidential utterance and spin it to bush's benefit, and on page one, naturally...

Analysis
President Shifts Argument, Catches Critics Off Guard

By Michael Abramowitz and Charles Babington
Washington Post Staff Writers
Thursday, September 7, 2006; Page A01

With a series of forceful speeches on terrorism and a dramatic announcement that he has sent top-tier terrorism suspects to the Guantanamo Bay prison, President Bush this week has demonstrated anew the power of even a weakened commander in chief to set the terms of national debate.

[...]

By challenging Congress to immediately give the administration authority to try notorious al-Qaeda figures such as Khalid Sheik Mohammed by military commissions, he shifted the argument with Democratic critics of national security policies and competence. As Bush framed the choice, anyone against his proposal would be denying him necessary tools to protect American security.

His success in catching much of Washington by surprise showed that a president who polls show has his political back to the wall still has formidable tools: the ability to make well-timed course corrections on policy, dominate the news and shape the capital's agenda in the weeks before Election Day.

a full FIVE PARAGRAPHS from the top, we get this...

Bush's moves were partly a concession to those who have complained about secret CIA prisons abroad. Even as he acknowledged the existence of the prison program for the first time, Bush could argue that there are no terrorism suspects now in the CIA program.

we're supposed to believe that those prisons are now EMPTY...? and nary a friggin' mention of the fact that the administration has consistently LIED about the VERY EXISTENCE of those prisons...? i'm totally dumbfounded... bush admits the existence of secret prisons and it's billed as a "well-timed course correction...?" un-friggingly-believable...

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