For Bush, Bad News Is Bad News-NYT

[Clinton Crusader]

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/25/opinion/25herbert.html?pagewanted=print&position=

For Bush, Bad News Is Bad News
October 25, 2004
OP-ED COLUMNIST
By BOB HERBERT

Here's George W. Bush's problem. How does a president win re-election when all the news the voters are seeing is bad?

Polls show the president running even or slightly ahead of Senator John Kerry. But bad news is piling up like mounds of trash in a garbage strike, and that's never good for an incumbent.

The war in Iraq is a mind-numbing tragedy with no end in sight. Dozens of Iraqi army recruits were slaughtered Saturday in one of the deadliest attacks yet against the Iraqi security forces. Yesterday an American diplomat was killed in a mortar attack near the Baghdad airport.

The latest horrific video to come out of the war zone shows the kidnapped British-Iraqi aid worker, Margaret Hassan, trembling, weeping and begging for her life. "Please help me," she says. "This might be my last hours."

American troops have fought valiantly, but cracks in their resolve are beginning to show. "This is Vietnam," said Daniel Planalp, a 21-year-old Marine corporal from San Diego who was quoted in yesterday's New York Times. "I don't even know why we're over here fighting."

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[BUSHOUT]

1. I can't read it. Do they mention the explosives? Can you quote it? n/t

[Clinton Crusader]

2. the only mention of Iraq is...

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The lead stories in The New York Times and The Washington Post on Friday were both about Iraq - and both were disheartening. The Times said senior American officials were assembling new information about the increasingly deadly Iraqi insurgency that showed "it has significantly more fighters and far greater financial resources than had been estimated."

The Post wrote that, according to a U.S.-financed poll, leaders of Iraq's religious parties are becoming the most popular politicians in the country, an extremely ominous development in the view of the Bush administration.

These are all stories with the potential to influence voters, and they are not being offset by other, more positive developments. The result has been high anxiety levels among Republican operatives.

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[dennis4868]

3. How does a president win re-election when all the news is bad?

FOR THE LAST 4 YEARS UP IS DOWN AND DOWN IS UP.....that is why Bush has a chance!

[msongs]

4. here is how bush wins when all the news is bad...........

its called election fraud.

Msongs
Riverside CA