No less a personage than John Kerry -- does the name sound familiar? -- is the blogger of the moment over on Daily Kos. And the post is so damn good, I would have made it a top recommendation even if his name were John Doe.
I'm sure you've seen the piece already. But just in case you haven't, it's a hard-hitting expose on how the Bush administration let Osama Bin Laden get away at Tora Bora. Lots of blogs (including this one) and other online periodicals have discussed this episode, but Kerry's piece offers the best research currently available.
This is exactly the strategy -- the Rovian strategy, we could call it -- Democrats should pursue: Attack the enemy on his perceived strong points. Those "strong points" are anything but.
Don't let the Republicans define one more issue. Take control of the issues. Hit first. Force Tora Bora onto the national stage. Force the other side to defend what happened there.
As Rove used to say: If you're defending, you're losing.
Incidentally, Senator Kerry says Teresa reads blogs passionately. If she saw the vote fraud coverage here, she knows we think she's the real first lady.
3 comments:
It's fair enough to taunt BushCo for its failure to caption OBL, since Rove et al. chose to cast Dubya cast as the sheriff (or was it the fighter pilot?).
But why should the rest of us care about Osama's whereabouts? He's all but irrelevant at this point. If Kerry had something truly interesting to say about our current foreign policy -- for example, that Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, et al. are war criminals -- *that* might be worth listening to.
But rather than attack Bush from the left, Kerry always proceeds from the right (he's *tougher* than Bush, and will drop *bigger* bombs).
Even worse than the thought that John Kerry is too craven and cautious to mount a moral and legal attack on current policy, is the suspicion that its wrongness hasn't even occurred to him.
Thanks for posting about this, Joseph. It's one of the best moves Kerry's made...ever.
If you dont attack Bush on OBL, he will pull that rabbit out of his hat when he needs support.
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