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I really wish I’d slept in a little later this morning. If I had, I wouldn’t be so sleepy now, right? But the bedroom TV was set to come on at 8am pst on CNN, so I got to wake up gradually to the press conference of President Bush.

There were so many sumblime moments in those roughly 45 minutes that my little GE conveyed the personage of power into my hermitage. But my favorite was this:

QUESTION: “You recently put Condoleezza Rice, your national security adviser, in charge of the management of the administration’s Iraq policy. What has effectively changed since she’s been in charge?

And a second question: Can you promise a year from now that you will have reduced the number of troops in Iraq?”

BUSH: “The second question is a trick question, so I won’t answer it.

The first question was Condoleezza Rice. Her job is to coordinate inter-agency. She’s doing a fine job of coordinating inter-agency. She’s doing what her — I mean, the role of the national security adviser is to not only provide good advice to the president, which she does on a regular basis — I value her judgment and her intelligence — but her job is also to deal inter-agency and to help unstick things that may get stuck. That’s the best way to put it. She’s an unsticker… “

What a hoot. For laughs, this guy has Clinton’s sax beat, hands down. But to me, a trick question is something like, “Are you still beating your wife?” Can anyone explain how the question about the troops was a trick? The Pres needs to hire me as a speechwriter. I have the perfect answer: “I’m not reducing the number of troops, the Ba’athist insurgents are.”