Kerry's "terrorism=prostitution=organized crime" comments could become the focus of the campaign for the next week. Note how the sycophantic NY Times reporter tries to spin it to Kerry's advanatage in the quote below. But I expect that W will soon saying something like this: "maybe Sen. Kerry is unfamiliar with Thomas Jefferson, who said 'the price of freedom is eternal vigilance.' If Kerry thinks terrorism will go away like prostitutes in Times Square, he obviously doesn't have the determination it takes in these dangerous times."
Anyhow, here's the quote from the Kerry suck-up NY Times reporter:
"This analogy struck me as remarkable, if only because it seemed to throw down a big orange marker between Kerry's philosophy and the president's. Kerry, a former prosecutor, was suggesting that the war, if one could call it that, was, if not winnable, then at least controllable. If mobsters could be chased into the back rooms of seedy clubs, then so, too, could terrorists be sent scurrying for their lives into remote caves where they wouldn't harm us.
"Bush had continually cast himself as the optimist in the race, asserting that he alone saw the liberating potential of American might, and yet his dark vision of unending war suddenly seemed far less hopeful than Kerry's notion that all of this horror -- planes flying into buildings, anxiety about suicide bombers and chemicals in the subway -- could somehow be made to recede until it was barely in our thoughts."
Do you have any idea what Kerry's record was as a prosecutor? Is it as stellar as his record as a Senator? /sarcasm
I guess he doesn't realize that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have done just that to Osama and his boys. Except, of course, for the ones who have either chosen to operate in easier countries or elected to go toe-to-toe with US forces in Iraq.