Advantage, Bush (Clift goes a little postal)

[Rose Siding]

Aug. 6 - Republicans are better at the game of politics. Take this week's elevated terror alert. Whether you think it was warranted or not, it's a win-win for George W. Bush. He says we're fighting terrorists in Iraq so we don't have to fight them here in our country. Yet we're told to prepare for an attack that could come any time and exceed the 9/11 toll in death and destruction.

The subliminal message of the Bush campaign is that a vote for John Kerry is a vote for Osama bin Laden. You can buy T-shirts that say that. They're advertised on the web site of the Washington Times, a conservative newspaper owned by the Unification Church..........

.....The real story this week is not that Al Qaeda is scouting out buildings. We've known for some time that Al Qaeda wants to attack financial sites in New York and Washington. They say so on their web sites, and Osama said as much in one of his videos. The surveillance that Ridge interrupted a peaceful Sunday afternoon to announce with the urgency of Armageddon is almost all ancient history, which doesn't mean that these buildings aren't legitimate targets. The proper response is to step up security at these sites. What marks the administration's response as purely political is that they said nothing until pressed to indicate that this isn't a new threat that requires immediate action.
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Howard Dean was right when he said that the administration has cried wolf so many times, it's difficult to know what's real and what is fake. Kerry rightly distanced himself from Dean's comment. Voicing such a suspicion gives the opposition an opening to question your patriotism, and when you assert a negative, you're almost begging to be proven wrong. We're going to see more alerts. Anytime the administration wants to, it can change the subject. This week's alert drove the Democratic ticket to an after-thought in the news cycle, halting whatever modest momentum Kerry had coming out of Boston.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5625195/site/newsweek/

[yellowcanine]

1. So how is it "advantage, Bush"???? If everyone is talking about

whether the threat is real or whether it is a political stunt by George "Wolf!" Bush, it seems to me he has lost any advantage. The boy has cried "Wolf!" once too often.

[KoKo]

2. Yes...it's kind of a "downer" article, but an interesting read,

nonetheless. I think in our darkest moods some of us think what she thinks might be possible. I'm trying to be more optimitic than she is, though. She's just laying out the possiblilty. She dares to "speak" it.

We are forewarned and those "fencesitters" might read this and realize how important this election is because of this. :shrug:

[BlueJazz]

3. We can bet our sweet Asses that weeks before, During...

..and weeks after the Republican Convention, the Terrorist Alerts will be Minimal, if non-existant.