AP Wire | 08/23/2002 | Bush questioned on Calif. candidate

"Bill Simon assures us that when the courts look at this case he'll be innocent, and I take the man for his word," Bush said Thursday while in Oregon on another fund-raising swing.

Maybe that's the President's problem. He's just too trusting. He probably believed Ken Lay when he said there weren't any problems at Enron, and he probably believes Dick Cheney when he says that everything at Halliburton was above board.