At Least "Mo the Ho" Dowd gets her pre-election column right...

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From tomorrow's NY Times:

Snip:

The Bushies' campaign pitch follows their usual backward logic: Because we have failed to make you safe, you should re-elect us to make you safer. Because we haven't caught Osama in three years, you need us to catch Osama in the next four years. Because we didn't bother to secure explosives in Iraq, you can count on us to make sure those explosives aren't used against you.

You'd think that seeing Osama looking fit as a fiddle and ready for hate would spark anger at the Bush administration's cynical diversion of the war on Al Qaeda to the war on Saddam. It's absurd that we're mired in Iraq - an invasion the demented vice president praised on Friday for its "brilliance" - while the 9/11 mastermind nonchalantly pops up anytime he wants. For some, it seemed cartoonish, with Osama as Road Runner beeping by Wile E. Bush as Dick Cheney and Rummy run the Acme/Halliburton explosives company - now under F.B.I. investigation for its no-bid contracts on anvils, axle grease (guaranteed slippery) and dehydrated boulders (just add water) .

Snip:

In their ruthless determination to put Mr. Bush's political future ahead of our future safety, the White House and House Republicans last week thwarted the enactment of recommendations of the 9/11 commission they never wanted in the first place.

While pretending to be serious about getting a bill on reorganizing intelligence agencies before the election, the White House never forced Congressional Republicans to come to an agreement. So the advice from the panel that spent 19 months studying how the government could shore up intelligence so there wouldn't be another 9/11 may be squandered, even though Dick Cheney's favorite warning to scare voters away from Mr. Kerry is that we might someday face terrorists "in the middle of one of our cities with deadlier weapons than have ever before been used against us," including a nuclear bomb.

Wow. I feel safer. Don't you?

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/31/opinion/31dowd.html?oref=login&hp

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. When MoDo is good, she's very, very good.

I usually want to strangle her when I see her on TV -- she gets all goofy and snarky -- but she sure can kick ass when she wants to. And she did this time.

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2. And she avoided using French or Latin words!

So the Freepers could understand her...

[madrchsod]

3. ya she`s right on target this election but

she still has that lounge lizard feel/look to her...

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5. Fess up...

Isn't that kind of a "fun" look? I mean to visit once in a while?

;-)

[madrchsod]

8. ok, but only after

two or three drinks-you know that`s not my usual coke or pepsi-two or three drinks she`d have to,well.......

[Flammable Materials]

6. I'd hit it. n/t

[robbedvoter]

4. Good one, Cobra!

[NNadir]

7. I can't believe this moron is on the editorial page and Frank Rich

is on the "Arts" page.

Frank Rich is a thinker whereas she seems to have confused public affairs with the 10 th grade fashion ball.

She is a hopeless twit. Occasionally, like here, she manages to be on the mark, but can you imagine that she thought the 2000 election had to do with tailoring? Twit.

[bacchant]

9. Go Mo!

She pisses me sometimes but I think her bullshit detector is sound. Keep it up.