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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (568286)	4/23/2004 4:44:09 PM
From: DizzyG	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Enjoy, Kenneth... New York Daily News - nydailynews.com Bad news for W is worse news for Kerry Thursday, April 22nd, 2004 In the last month or so, everything has gone wrong for President Bush. He has been criticized by members of the 9/11 commission for being lackadaisical about terrorism. Richard Clarke accused him of being weirdly obsessed with Iraq. More than 100 Americans have been killed there in the last 30 days, and Bush was so inarticulate in his recent press conference that you could say he violated the standards of his own "No Child Left Behind" policy. Still, if this keeps up, he'll win reelection in a landslide. That, at least, is the forgivable conclusion you can draw from The Washington Post-ABC News poll released this week. It had Bush ahead of John Kerry by 48% to 43%, with most of the rest (6%) going to someone named Nader. What's particularly telling is that Bush and Kerry have traded places on two key issues - national security and the economy. Where Bush once lagged, he is now in the lead. The campaign may have just begun, but it looks to me as though it may be over. Why? Well, the last month should have been ruinous, and yet the President not only survived, he thrived. Explanations abound. Some credit the Democrats on the 9/11 commission for being too partisan and thus eliciting support for Bush. Maybe. More likely, though, and certainly more important, is the $41 million the Bush campaign spent on television ads in March alone. Money undoubtedly will matter in the presidential campaign. But what will matter just as much, if not more, is Kerry's message. At the moment, it is nowhere to be found. If anyone out there can complete the following sentence, please let the Kerry campaign know: Vote for John Kerry because.... The only thing that comes to mind is that he is not George Bush. Significantly, in one area where Kerry is demonstrably not Bush, it works against him. Bush is minimally articulate; Kerry is downright verbose. When Kerry opens his mouth, whole chunks of paragraphs fall out and hit the floor with a clunk. He truly knows too much - a charge that cannot be leveled at Bush. If I were running the Kerry campaign, I would show over and over Bush's press conference response about why he insists on appearing at the 9/11 hearings with Vice President Cheney. Bush had no answer - none whatsoever - and even a followup failed to get a response. (My followup would have been to ask if they were going to dress identically.) The look on his face was both telling and scary. He simply had no acceptable answer. Whether that would work with the American people, I don't know. A majority of them favor the President in the one area in which he has clearly failed them - national security. He has presided over two unprecedented intelligence failures - the surprise attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and the fruitless hunt for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq - and took the nation into a war in Iraq before the one in Afghanistan had been successfully concluded. Still, Kerry has not been able to lay a glove on him. Another bad month like the last for Bush, and the President will have his second term in the bag. nydailynews.com