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The WH is starting to leak its campaign plans. Being POTL, the leaks are all lies, but which lie is most like the truth? Who knows.

Anyhow, Bush wants to show he's a usurper, not a ... No, a uniter! That's it, a uniter!

So the White House is trying to think of a stunt to make people believe this, and introduce it in the SOTU:

But Mr. Bush, some of his own strategists and advisers said, has a long way to go if he wants to avoid being portrayed as a divisive figure who motivates Democrats to vote against him. As a result, the White House is considering using the State of the Union address to propose a big new national goal that would not be partisan or ideological and would help rally the country behind Mr. Bush's leadership, an outside adviser to the administration said. The possibilities floated by the White House include a major initiative for the space program or an ambitious health care goal like increasing life expectancies.

"They want to have the president talk about an important national goal that is big and a unifying theme," the adviser said.

Yawn.

And keep the specifics out of the SOTU! We don't want another 16 words fiasco!