Both parties make North Korea policy an issue

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 10/11/6 | Marc Sandalow

[SmithL]

North Korea's explosive declaration that it has joined the ranks of nuclear-armed nations is the sort of shock wave that at first glance would seem to provide a boost to Republican candidates.

One month before election day, with the GOP mired in a congressional sex scandal, the emergence of a new global threat and a renewed focus on national security seems to play right into a Republican strength with an issue that has secured their national majority the past two elections.

"Let me put it this way,'' White House Press Secretary Tony Snow said Tuesday from the briefing-room podium. "We're perfectly happy to have national security be front and center in this election, period.''

But in a sign of the difficult political terrain that threatens the GOP majority in the House and Senate, Democrats are raising the issue on the campaign trail at least as vocally as their Republican counterparts, declaring the news from North Korea another failure of President Bush's foreign policy.

Democrats, playing off public disapproval of the war in Iraq and of the president, are seizing the opportunity to argue that North Korea, Iran and Iraq pose a greater threat today than they did when Bush identified them as an "axis of evil'' in his 2003 State of the Union address.

As weapons experts try to sort out whether Monday morning's underground blast was evidence of North Korea's nuclear capacity, political analysts in the United States are puzzling over whether Democrats might have grabbed a national security edge going into the final month of the campaign.

[SmithL]

political analysts in the United States are puzzling over whether Democrats might have grabbed a national security edge going into the final month of the campaign.

heh heh
Good One!

[cinives]

Democrat political analysts in the United States are puzzling over whether Democrats might have grabbed a national security edge going into the final month of the campaign.

There, fixed the sentence.

[Billthedrill]

Grabbed an edge how? By doing what they always do, complaining about Bush's policies without offering an alternative?

[SmithL]

more appeasement

[dighton]

Problem Solved: Clinton Had Plans

[SmithL]

legacy

[dhs12345]

Another one for Chris Wallace to catch heck for in his next interview with Clinton. Hope he asks ol' Billy about it. hehe.

[Right Cal Gal]

Have I been asleep for the last six years and missed the Democrats constant begging for Bush to do something about North Korea? Must have been some nap.

[Grampa Dave]

"political analysts in the United States are puzzling over whether Democrats might have grabbed a national security edge going into the final month of the campaign.

The You Tube Link below shows the reality of the Clintoons, not a wet dream by a bunch of drugged out hot tub maggots at the SF Gayrhonical:

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