But what if it's not a "strategy"? What if he's finally admitting what we all thought? He just doesn't know what the hell is going on. The first line is a classic and it is a line that basically sums up his whole presidency:
What didn't the president know and when didn't he know it?
Faced with a rebellion in his own Republican party over an Arab company's planned takeover of operations at six U.S. ports, the White House says President George W. Bush was in the dark about it until last week.
While Bush adamantly defended the deal again on Thursday, the I-did-not-know strategy has puzzled some political analysts and communications experts.
"It's a disaster for him, I think," said Michael Hogan, professor of communication, arts and sciences at Pennsylvania State University. "It's never a good thing for a president to say he doesn't know something."
