Missing Person: Where’s Dubya when it comes to addressing the nation about the anthrax threat?

Compare what Bush has been talking about over the last few days to what everyone else has. Last Thursday a State Department employee contracted inhalation anthrax, and deadly spores were found at the CIA and the Supreme Court, where all nine Justices have been put on doxycycline and sent to deliberate across town. That day, Bush spoke at an elementary school, where he urged students to make pen pals with their counterparts in Arab countries. (Remarkably, Bush’s one new initiative in the midst of the anthrax mailings will assure that the country is flooded with letters from the Middle East addressed in children’s handwriting.)…

Clinton aides used to wake up in the morning thinking of how to inject the president into whatever the country was talking about. The more disciplined (or rigid) Bush team, by contrast, figures out in advance what the president should be talking about, and doesn’t let intervening events get in the way. Problem is, at a time of overwhelmingly bad news, they’ve decided he’s a good-news guy. The New Republic