David Gergen actually said...

his first audience is here at home. he's really focused now on the elections in November.

Gergen discusses President Bush's focus on the upcoming elections and how it affected his speech.

09/18/2006

More David Gergen Quotes

Are we making enough progress on the battlefield? And is the Maliki government in Iraq made enough progress to justify going on?

I think he's -- he's been very isolated.

Republicans are -- clearly do not want to go over the waterfall with this president, if, by September, things haven't cleared up.

The president himself would prefer not to have that kind of September timetable.