Insert Mouth, Open Foot

First Resident Bush called Iraq a "miscalculation," then he described our victory as a "catastrophic success." Now there's this:

When asked "Can we win?" the war on terror, Bush said, "I don't think you can win it. But I think you can create conditions so that the — those who use terror as a tool are — less acceptable in parts of the world."

Is it just me, or does Bush seem to be the Manchurian Candidate, and the Kerry campaign just turned on his switch?

Now, I think the very term "war on terror" is patently ridiculous. (in the words of David Cross, "It's like saying you can have a war on jealousy.") Terror is a tactic, and waging war on a tactic used in war doesn't make any sense. But for a man who's built his entire campaign on being strong, resolute, and never wavering, to change this tactic after 3 years of saying "We will win the war on terror" is absurd.

This is such an obvious misstep, it has to be acknowledged by our side.

UPDATE: I think one of the main reasons you won't hear a ton about this on many networks is because (1) The RNC just started, (2) Our Democratic surrogates stink, and (3) it came out of an interview on a TV network (NBC's Today show), and other networks simply don't want to give the credit for a story to them.