Bush news conference

1. An admission that he lied to reporters last week when he said he was keeping Donald Rumsfeld in his job; the decision had already been made last week that he would resign.

[he's now qualifying this to say that he knew Rumseld was going but hadn't confirmed this with his intended successor]

2. An admission that the statement "However they put it, the Democrat approach comes down to this: The terrorists win and America loses" was meaningless.

3. Said in the "you talking to me?" voice: "you think I'm nuts?"

4. A claim that the spinners are going to have to walk back very quickly, that because the Vietnam era army was a conscript army, the soldiers then didn't understand the stakes, but the all volunteer army in Iraq does.

5. Freudian slip -- "It's hard to win an election when you're trying to win a write-off write-in." (the latter a reference to Tom DeLay being on the ballot but not a candidate in Texas)

[UPDATE: Much more analysis of the event from Dan Froomkin]