Frank Rich for Sunday, June 29: "If Terrorists Rock the Vote in 2008"

[Faygo Kid]

Excerpt:

. . . But let’s put ourselves in Mr. Black’s shoes and try out the Rove playbook at home — though not in front of the children — by thinking the unthinkable. If a terrorist bomb did detonate in an American city before Election Day, would that automatically be to the Republican ticket’s benefit?

Not necessarily. Some might instead ask why the Bush White House didn’t replace Michael Chertoff as secretary of homeland security after a House report condemned his bungling of Katrina. The man didn’t know what was happening in the New Orleans Convention Center even when it was broadcast on national television.

Next, voters might take a hard look at the antiterrorism warriors of the McCain campaign (and of a potential McCain administration). This is the band of advisers and surrogates that surfaced to attack Mr. Obama two weeks ago for being “naïve” and “delusional” and guilty of a “Sept. 10th mind-set” after he had the gall to agree with the Supreme Court decision on Gitmo detainees. The McCain team’s track record is hardly sterling. It might make America more vulnerable to terrorist attack, not less, were it in power. . .

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/29/opinion/29rich.html?ref=opinion

[babylonsister]

1. Thank you, Frank Rich! Why is everyone so quick to think we can

only be protected by the rethugs? They've exacerbated the terrorist problem.

[Faygo Kid]

2. Thank you. Frank almost always gets it right. We are NOT safer because of George W. Bush.

[AndyTiedye]

3. The Worst The Terrorists Could Do to Us Under Clinton Was Blow up a Parking Garage