Tuesday, September 07, 2004
Is this the real life...is this just fantasy....
caught in a landslide, no escape from reality....
The core of the Bush Campaign is to present Bush as a strong and effective war President who can keep Americans safe from the scourge of terrorism. Using their considerable marketing skills, the GOP have very much worked to paint their guy as the steward of an America who fights evil on every shore with the backing of the Almighty. Powerful images indeed.
Unfortunately, those images don't stack up against reality.
Bush's stump speeches often include diatribe about how he has seen to it that the Taliban are gone. But reality has very little in common with Bush's speeches invoking the Taliban.
The problem is essentially identical with Al Qaida.
Bush's policies are also helping to recruit more members for Al Qaida.
The "tough on Terror" president has little to do with the actual reality when it comes to bringing the bad guys to justice. This is the same group that whines about President Clinton treating terrorism as a crime rather than a war. It would seem that the Clinton style of justice is not only less costly in lives and dollars, it's much more effective.
The long term infomercial that is the Bush Campaign is selling a slickly packaged bill of goods to an American electorate whose fears are easily played into. It's fascinating in a macabre sort of way to watch people being talked into voting against their own self interest.
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The core of the Bush Campaign is to present Bush as a strong and effective war President who can keep Americans safe from the scourge of terrorism. Using their considerable marketing skills, the GOP have very much worked to paint their guy as the steward of an America who fights evil on every shore with the backing of the Almighty. Powerful images indeed.
Unfortunately, those images don't stack up against reality.
Bush's stump speeches often include diatribe about how he has seen to it that the Taliban are gone. But reality has very little in common with Bush's speeches invoking the Taliban.
The problem is essentially identical with Al Qaida.
Bush's policies are also helping to recruit more members for Al Qaida.
The "tough on Terror" president has little to do with the actual reality when it comes to bringing the bad guys to justice. This is the same group that whines about President Clinton treating terrorism as a crime rather than a war. It would seem that the Clinton style of justice is not only less costly in lives and dollars, it's much more effective.
The long term infomercial that is the Bush Campaign is selling a slickly packaged bill of goods to an American electorate whose fears are easily played into. It's fascinating in a macabre sort of way to watch people being talked into voting against their own self interest.
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