Goodman: A Post-Bush Mind-Set

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10797-2004Oct29.html

While we are still in a pre-Nov. 2 mind-set, may I offer my last few words on the "pre-Sept. 11 mind-set"?

By now that phrase has become a mantra for the Bush reelection campaign. In every stump speech in every swing state, the president accuses John Kerry not only of being untrustworthy but of viewing the world with a "pre-Sept. 11th mentality" or a "September the 10th mind-set."

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I have an entire Rolodex of reasons why I would not vote to keep this president in office. But none of them trumps my sense of danger at being led by a man who tailors the facts to fit the mind that is indeed set.

My pre-Sept. 11 mind-set was never that sunny. I grew up under the threat of a mushroom cloud and remember the Cuban missile crisis. Now we are led in a dangerous time by a man who calls chaos "freedom on the march," a president who uses Sept. 11 as his cover story.

And that is my November 2nd mind-set.

[Gloria]

1. kick--I love her line about chaos being called "freedom on the march"

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