Do you actually expect cabinet officials stay up at night watching TV every night? Besides, we are talking about only 8hrs or so diffrence here! Not as if someone delivered the paper via pony express a week later.
Mr. Bush was flanked as he spoke by Mayor Kip Holden of Baton Rouge and T. D. Jakes, a conservative African-American television evangelist with a megachurch in Dallas who has been courted by the White House as a partner in reaching out to the black vote. "I want to thank my friend, T. D. Jakes, for rallying the armies of compassion to help somebody like the mayor," Mr. Bush said.