EMAIL OF THE DAY

“I’m reading through your fisk of Bush on MTP. Good job. About the president’s use of the word ‘Sure:’ I think he was using it not as a placeholder, but rather as an acknowledgement that he was expecting to hear this question and was ready to answer it (misleading as that answer might have been). I think that maybe, in the president’s head, the words “Can you explain…” were grafted onto the question. I don’t know if you saw the interview or just read it, but I got the impression from body language that the president had been prepped to some degree on all of these questions, and when TR asked them a little box in his head opened: ‘Sure, I know the answer to that.’
Or maybe not.” That might be true. But then it’s another Bush family tick – going meta on us. It’s like the classic: “Message: I care.” They keep thinking about the process rather than answering the question. It’s the nittiest of picks. But it’s still weird.