Not sure about Bush making his bones as the education president, either.

"Never once did he say something negative about the war, Bush or anyone else," she added.

I've never heard the president say any bad words about Bush.

"It's about Bush getting away with doing drugs all those years, if he did," she said.

"Of course we are also worried about Bush," he added.

Oh, and you are *so* right about Bush cleaning up his own mess.

But they also thought it was unseemly to talk about Bush.

They start from a great deal of skepticism about Bush.

They were highly critical of anyone who remotely said anything negative about Bush or his administration when he was in office.

He did such a good job telling the truth about Bush, so to act like nothing's changed is ridiculous.