Condi Gives It Away

On Wolf Blitzer just now, Condi Rice said she thought that Bush did d "fine job" during the debate.

Now I get it. Condi sees Bush when he's even worse -- brainfarting at 200 poots per minute, stuttering, mistating facts, looking bratty and schoolgirlish.

The fact that Bush dialed that down to only 80% of what she sees in private sessions with him is a "fine job" in her eyes, I guess.

She also repeated the discredited notion that 100,000 trained Iraqi security forces are currently on the ground in Iraq. I think that goes beyond spin to outright lie:

The Pentagon also said on Monday that only about 53,000 of the 100,000 Iraqis on duty now have undergone training.

The documents, obtained by Reuters, show that of the nearly 90,000 currently in the police force, only 8,169 have had the full eight-week academy training