Kerry can't keep us safe

[private_ryan]

at what point, if ever, do we remind people who President on September 10th and in the many months before that? So much for keeping us safe. Would it be wise if Dean or Wesley Clark said that in passing or as outrage over the Bush ads?

[ThatPoetGuy]

1. Every President

in the last hundred years has kept us safer than you did, Mr. Bush.

[RafterMan]

2. Well, in the primaries Clark said

9/11 was "Bush's responsibility" and "he didn't do enough to protect us". The press treated him like a madman.

Maybe the Kerry people have asked him to tone it down. But I think now that the Richard Clarke book has come out and confirmed everything Wes was saying, it's entirely appropriate.

The biggest problem, I think, is the pervasive notion that "everything changed" on 9/11. Of course it didn't, and any top person in government who didn't understand that a serious attack was a possibility before it actually occurred didn't belong there then and doesn't belong there now. But I think many civilians weren't anticipating an attack either, so they lend more sympathy than they should.

[Robert Oak]

3. Richard Clarke and John O'Neill plus others

are great evidence the opposite was true.

I think they should attack this head on. I don't know why they don't.

bush sat and read "my pet goat" and all of that has happened
say to me, Bush is a disaster for global terrorism fight.

Reems of untranslated intelligence sitting arounnd, refusal to
make the borders secure and on and on.