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SOTU photo essay

A couple of other blogs have noted the White House web site has a photo essay up that shows Mr. Bush's hands hard at work, checking every word of the SOTU address. The one with The Lie (and to the Homeland Security operatives in the audience, I've saved copies of all six pictures with accompanying captions, so if you're gonna raid me, can you do it, like, Sunday and get it over with?).

I decided to check the other pictures in the essay, and I can't resist bringing one more picture to the fore.

Created from many opinions, details and revisions, a draft is reviewed by President Bush, Counselor Karen Hughes, Chief of Staff Andy Card and National Security Advisor Dr. Condoleezza Rice (holding the notebook, foreground) in the Oval Office, Thursday, Jan. 24.

Look who's in the mix. Condoleezza Rice. I think. See, I'm not sure whether they actually didn't want to show her, thought we'd realize brown hands that close to Mr. Bush could only belong to her, or (because she actually is incredibly intelligent—maybe not smart but incredibly intelligent) she arranged for some plausible deniability for herself (that wasn't me, it was the housekeeper!).

LATER: Okay, it looks like that was the 2002 SOTU stuff. Interestingly enough, the 2003 stuff only shows him interacting with the speechwriters and Karen Hughes, though "[s]ketching notes in the margin of speech drafts, President Bush [still] rewrites portions of the address in the Oval Office." Last year Ari Fleischer, Andy Card and Condi Rice represented as well.

posted by Prometheus 6 at 7/17/2003 08:28:00 PM |

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