"The president said he wanted to work together (with McCain) to pursue court action to shut down all the ads and activity by the shadowy ... groups," White House spokesman Scott McClellan told reporters aboard Air Force One.So the problem, to Bush, isn't that the ads run by the Not-So-Swift Boat Veterans are outright lies, but rather it's how the ads are funded - the content doesn't bother Bush a bit. (Not that he was ever a guy for substance.)
Someone needs to ask Bush if this means he'd have no problem with the Swift Boat ads if they were being paid for by his campaign.