Okay, Praz (and David Brooks). You're a war president, huh? We can do that.

Greg Abbott has some advice for Kerry on the rhetorical response:

"In a time of war, America needs a president who can tell the difference between good intelligence and bad intelligence ...

In a time of war, America cannot afford a president who needs a committee of outsiders to explain to him the mistakes he's made ...

In a time of war, America cannot afford a president who makes bad situations worse by refusing to admit he's made a mistake ...

In a time of war, America needs a president who will ask all Americans, including his own political allies, to make financial sacrifices for the good of the country ... "

And Calpundit is just, well, perturbed by the whole thing:

Who the hell does George Bush think he is, anyway? We haven't had a "wartime president" since FDR, and there's a good reason for that: you're only a wartime president if you act like you're at war. That means placing the country on a wartime footing, putting aside petty politics to forge a bipartisan wartime consensus, and telling the nation in no uncertain terms that sacrifices need to be made. George Bush has done none of those things. In fact, he's done exactly the opposite, sending the message loud and clear that this war is as trivial and inconsequential as it's possible to be, all the time treating it as little more than a partisan club with which to beat his enemies.