Posted on 09/29/2004 11:21:31 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
'A terrible blunder'
"John Kerry, who has evidently decided to replace Howard Dean as the antiwar candidate, last weekend helped to magnify the terrorists' kidnap weapon," New York Times columnist William Safire writes.
"In a scheduled commercial Kerry personally approved, just before charging that George Bush had no plan to get us out of Iraq, the Democratic campaign underscored the message [terrorist leader Abu Musab] Zarqawi has been sending: 'Americans,' said Kerry's announcer, 'are being kidnapped, held hostage, even beheaded.'
"Though undoubtedly accurate, that paid evocation of horror by a political candidate is a terrible blunder. That's the sort of emotional appeal you would expect from President Gloria Arroyo of the Philippines, who pulled 51 troops out of Iraq, caving to the demand of kidnappers, emboldening them to grab fresh victims.
"It's bad enough for some thoughtless media outlets to become an echo chamber for scare propaganda; it's worse when the nominee of a major party approves its use to press his antiwar candidacy." [snip]
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The old pro "Joe Lockhart was supposed to be the Clintonite pro who came in and saved the Kerry campaign," Mickey Kaus writes in his Kausfiles column for Slate (http://slate.msn.com/id/2106976/). "So far he's a) embroiled the campaign in the Dan Rather/Bill Burkett CBS memo fiasco and b) ham-handedly called Iraqi interim P.M. [Iyad] Allawi a 'puppet.' ... But I hear he's a good closer!"....
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Yeah, it's almost like Rove and Hillary are in charge. Hee-hee!
Rove isn't,but the fine Italian hand of the Clintons is. :-)
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