So Funny It Hurts. Literally.

Christopher Hayes September 10, 2004

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We all remember The Onion's infamous and unbelievably prescient headline: Bush: 'Our Long National Nightmare of Peace and Prosperity Is Finally Over'This piece from this week is just as on point. And just as depressing:Bush Campaign More Thought Out Than Iraq War WASHINGTON, DC—Military and political strategists agreed Monday that President Bush's re-election campaign has been executed with greater precision than the war in Iraq. "Judging from the initial misrepresentation of intelligence data and the ongoing crisis in Najaf, I assumed the president didn't know his ass from his elbow," said Col. Dale Henderson, a military advisor during the Reagan Administration. "But on the campaign trail, he's proven himself a master of long-term planning and unflinching determination. How else can you explain his strength in the polls given this economy?" Henderson said he regrets having characterized Bush's handling of the war as "incompetent," now that he knows the president's mind was simply otherwise occupied.

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Christopher Hayes is the host of MSNBC’s All In with Chris Hayes. He is an editor at large at the Nation and a former senior editor of In These Times.