Metaphor Alert
"The bait-and-switch substitution of World War II for Vietnam quickly proved a bridge too far for both candidates. Just when they thought they had fled Vietnam, it returned, whacking them in the face like a perpetually revolving door. No sooner did Mr. Kerry's convention end than he was impaled by the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. No sooner did the Republicans leave New York than word got out that '60 Minutes' was poking anew into the president's National Guard stint, a Pandora's box of unanswered questions first unlocked by The Boston Globe four years ago."--former theater critic Frank Rich, New York Times, Sept. 12
LOL! Frank Rich writes like Yoko Ono sings.
A Pandora's box it was, indeed -- for Rather.