MARKETERS-IN-CHIEF. Regarding the Blair-Bush press conference this morning, is it just me or is Tony Blair becoming less eloquent and coherent the more he stands side-by-side with Bush? By comparison, watch this most frightening of videos from September 2002, when Bush and then-White House Chief of Staff Andy �From a marketing point of view, you don�t introduce new products in August� Card were rolling out the administration�s marketing campaign for the Iraq war. The video is of an outdoor Q&A at Camp David after the two leaders just got off the Marine 1 helicopter. Looking like a seven-year-old slowed by an overdose of Ritalin, Bush practically gets propped up rhetorically by Blair. That was four years ago. Sadly, today, it�s getting harder and harder to tell these two listing chief marketing officers apart.
--Tom Schaller