Uniting, not dividing?

"You cannot be small business and pro-trial lawyer at the same time," the president said. "You have to choose. My opponent made his choice and he put him [John Edwards] on the ticket."

We have to choose, folks, and well, you know what happens to those folks who choose wrong. Could it possibly be this simple in President Bush's mind?

Of course, the irony is, most trial lawyer firms, are small businesses. Indeed, probably more than a few have taken advantage of the outrageous deduction for gigantic SUVs the President put in in his tax cuts.

So, maybe the President is really a uniter - a craven, politically callous and deceitful uniter, but a uniter nonetheless. Then again, there's the other alternative theory that the President knows next to nothing about the policies he implements.

I might add, talk of costly, socially damaging lawyers is a strange thing coming from the party of Ken Starr and John Ashcroft.