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Tuesday, September 09, 2003
Hillary, Al, and W. Got back
from John Ashcroft's Repressapalooza stop at Faneuil Hall a little
while ago, and am just briefly checking in before getting down to the
grim business of trying to figure out how critical I can be of the
Patriot Act without risking deportation. (Pssst! I'm one-fourth
French!)
But I had to share the latest from
Dick
Morris's wacky New York Post
column today, which I
picked up from Drudge.
The highlights:
- Hillary -- ever a Morris
obsession -- wants Dean to win the Democratic nomination so that
he'll be slaughtered by Bush and clear the path for her own
presidential run in 2008.
- Gore looks like he's getting
ready to run -- and the polling shows a 2000-style photo finish
between him and Bush, with a decent chance of Gore's
winning.
- Weirdly (this is Dick
Morris), no mention of Wesley Clark, who -- if he catches a lucky
break -- could dispatch Kerry, turn the Democratic contest into a
Dean-Clark race, and then pose a significant threat to Bush in
November. As Drudge also notes, the New York Times reports
that Bill
Clinton, at least, knows who Clark
is.
The most entertaining part of
Morris's column is his wretched conclusion:
Why is Bush falling so
badly? The superficial reasons are the Iraq casualties, the
failure to find WMDs and the continuing inability to round up
Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden. But the real reason is that
terror is receding as an issue, largely due to Bush's
success.
The solution for Bush is to put
terrorism back on the front burner by high profile and aggressive
action against Iran and/or North Korea. It's not necessary to wag
the dog, but Bush should wag his tongue and raise the profile of
these two remaining threats to our security.
That Bush! He's just doing too good
a job to get elected. If only he'd scare us some more, everything
would be fine.
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Dan Kennedy is senior writer and media critic for the Boston Phoenix.
