Reply #49: While not decided on Dean, I think that article is ridiculous. [View All]

[Selwynn]

First of all, the the paragraph defending Bush going into Iraq under the pretenses of lies, half-truths and desception at the expense of 400+ US lives with no clear plan and no clear exit stategy is ridiculous. I'd also like to remind the write of that little story that we don't have Saddam yet or WMDS, or a stop to terrorism, or a working functioning Iraq infastructure. All we have are huge government contracts handed out to friends of the administration and no clear signs of any progress.

As for the rest of it - anyone who things the Bush administration feels they are going to "waltz" through next year is an idiot. Reguardless of who is nominated, the Bush adminstration has a lot of damange control to do for its own actions, nevermind fighting to discredit a political opponent.

No, I don't think Dean or any other Democratic candidate will have an easy time of it, in fact I'm not even sure we will be able to win in the face of such a tyrannical machine, but I don't think for a second that BushCo is doing a happy dance about anything.

.... before I get to carried away, I must say that given the choice between dean and clark I think the Bush administration would fear Clark for more than Dean. Dean is a very easy target for Republicans to attack, right or wrong. The can portray him as a hothead (false) as an extreme liberal (false) and not having enough security/foreign policy experience (I know the irony of that attack, but they could do it). They can't attack Clark on any of those grounds, and the only attack they could make, that he is too cozy with Republicans won't not help their cause at all, even though its a favorite of many Democrats here.

I'm not saying Clark is the better choice. I'm just saying that I don't have blind faith in Dean. I think Dean may make a great president who may have a brutally difficult road of overcoming huge obstacles ahead of him if he is to win. But despite that, I don't think BushCo is doing a happy dance about damn near anything right now.