In the Rose Garden: Jim Rutenberg HAS no children (only Little Bear, a brown chow chow)

WP: In the Rose Garden, It Was All Al-Qaeda
By Dana Milbank
Friday, May 25, 2007; Page A02



....There was no evidence that Osama bin Laden was responsible for this particular attack, and -- who knows? -- maybe the terrorist leader believes the superstition that bird poop is good luck. But just about everything else that came up during the hour-long news conference was traced to bin Laden's terrorist network.

The session was called to draw attention to the fact that Democratic leaders had just caved in to Bush's demand that the Iraq spending bill have no withdrawal timeline. But as frequently happens at presidential events these days, it quickly became al-Qaeda, all the time. Bush invoked the terrorist group 19 times and even suggested it was going after individual reporters' kids.

"They are a threat to your children, David," he advised NBC's David Gregory.

"It's a danger to your children, Jim," Bush informed the New York Times' Jim Rutenberg.

This last warning was perplexing, because Rutenberg has no children, only a brown chow chow named Little Bear. It was unclear whether Bush was referring to a specific and credible threat to Little Bear or merely indicating there was increased "chatter in the system" about chow chows in general.

Rutenberg, informed of the pet threat, asked Bush a follow-up question about bin Laden. "Mr. President, why is he still at large?"

"Why is he at large?" Bush shot back. "Because we haven't got him yet, Jim."...

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be doing this. He is going downhill fast as I do not think people will take kindly to this new tactic by Bush.

"Right now, Mr. Bush, my kids are in far more danger of someday, ten years from now, being drafted to fight and die in your illegal, ongoing war than they are of any terrorist attacking them!"