...or maybe he's just full of shit, as usual. I report, you decide.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/20/opinion/20safire.htmlReading Kerry's Mind
By WILLIAM SAFIREI am John Kerry, falling further behind in the polls with only six weeks to go.
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2. Ignore my peripheral messages that show no traction. Unemployment keeps drifting down and the stock market is going up, so the economy doesn't help me. Deficits don't scare people, taxing the rich shows no traction, and Bush has muddied up the health and education issues. Scaring the old folks about privatization of Social Security only drives younger voters to the G.O.P.
This is so full of lies it's beyond possibility that he actually believes it.:::snip:::
7. Duck all the gotcha! news conferences. I'll get away with Imus and Oprah and Larry King and let the hard-news media holler about softballs.
This the worst lie of all - considering how Bush is the Prince of Duckness, never ever facing anything remotely resembling a genuine question, having held only 12 news conferences in his entire presidency.:::snip:::
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By now, I suppose there's no point in even bothering. Anyone who still takes Safire seriously is either a member of his family or Harry MacDougald. But I just can't stand it - he keeps getting worse and worse, and he's in the
New York Times -
my New York Times, which I've been every day for 39 years. I know he has a right to his opinion, but don't
we have the right to at least minimal competence? Or maybe not, considering who the president is.