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View: GOP spouts political pandering
The
primaries of the party elections will probably
end up being much more exciting and dramatic
than the actually presidential race. Everyone
from Howard Dean to Joseph Lieberman are
hustling and bustling to get ahead in New
Hampshire and Iowa.
And
then there is Bush. Poor President Bush.
His ratings are down and more and more everyday
the conflict in Iraq slides further down
into the muck and mud. The death, destruction
and monetary damage of that war continues
to perplex and depress our nations citizenry.
The
last three years of Bush's presidency have
often seemed as a dark and dangerous decline
for America. Our nation, not long ago caught
up in the buoyant bubble of the 1990s, has
effectively been popped.
So it makes sense that when Bush makes his
campaign commercials he focuses on the tragedy
and destruction that has occurred in the
last three years, since there has been little
besides failure in his term. Failure, and
crooked bills that favor all of his cronies.
This
leads us to his, or rather the GOP's new
commercial, conveniently running in Iowa
and New Hampshire during the Democratic
primaries. The events of Sept. 11 should
not be used as a politically powerful memory
and image. But this is just what the commercial
does. It recalls that day and every day
since that Bush has supposedly been fighting
terror. But sometimes it seems like he's
just creating more of it.
Bush's
commercial denounces those who dissent from
his unilateralist view, as if the only reason
we disagree is because he is fighting terrorists.
If he were doing a better job of it, maybe
people wouldn't mind so much. But his preemptive
strike has only fueled the fire of al Qaeda,
and given them footholds outside of the
Middle East. But we guess as long as it's
not happening here, everything is A-OK.
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