No politics, please: We're campaigning

Washington Times ^ | 9/27/02 | Wesley Pruden

[kattracks]

Ah, the headline writer's cliche comes to life: "The Democrats stumble in disarray."

Put it down to war fever. Not the war on Saddam Hussein, but the war on George W. Bush.

Al Gore, with a breathtaking feat of spinning (once called "lying") that would have made his old boss proud, sounded the keynote in a week of cacophony with a speech in San Francisco accusing George W. of not doing anything about Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda and trying to do the wrong thing about Saddam Hussein. Michael Kelly described it in The Washington Post as "dishonest, cheap, low hollow [and] breathtakingly hypocritical," but had to concede that he was understating how bad it really was.

[stevem]

So many of the paid observers, even Democrat stooges (Pruden is obviously not one of these), are openly hostile to the likes of Daschle on this issue. It's always a mystery as to why liberal politicians are never held to account by their own constituents on any such issue.