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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: CalculatedRisk who wrote (40218)	8/3/2004 11:29:32 PM
From: Selectric II	Respond to of 81568

What has the NYT done for the war effort? Armchair quarterbacking from a bunch of writers?

To: CalculatedRisk who wrote (40218)	8/4/2004 12:00:39 AM
From: Karen Lawrence	Respond to of 81568

As for Al Qaeda, ... a BBC analysis Monday suggests that they like Bush: "The prevailing wisdom is that Al Qaeda actually 'likes' George W. Bush in the sense that his muscular rhetoric is seen as playing up the very divisions that Al Qaeda wishes to emphasize." The BBC adds, "The Bush administration's fixation with Saddam Hussein and Iraq is widely seen as being a distraction from the real campaign against terrorism." villagevoice.com If the New Dems, who appear to be running Kerry's campaign, think they have transformed him into a Clinton centrist, they may not have taken into consideration the Republican Party's probable sinewy strategy. The GOP might suddenly downplay its right-wing Christians and bring to center stage its own version of moderation: war heroes John McCain and Bob Dole, both of them tastefully reticent about their war experiences (certainly in comparison to Kerry); Rudy Giuliani, the hero of 9-11; and Arnold Schwarzenegger. And if he is a good boy, Colin Powell.