Whoa, The NYT Editorial Page gives a huge scolding to Pres. Bush [View All]

[La_Serpiente]

I don't think I have read something so critical -- but yet so right.

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Campaigning in Wartime
NYT Editorial Page

If there was ever any doubt that President Bush would run for re-election as the commander in chief of the war on terror, it will end when the Republican Party begins broadcasting its first campaign commercial on Mr. Bush's behalf. "Some are now attacking the president for attacking the terrorists," says the ad, as it shows film of Mr. Bush warning of the potential dangers ahead.

It was inevitable that Sept. 11 was going to wind up in the messy center of presidential politics. The war against terror is by its very nature a war with no conclusion, and Democrats who lined up behind the president after the World Trade Center was destroyed cannot be expected to give him a free pass into a second term. The Republicans, meanwhile, are bound to base their campaign on the public's natural reluctance to change chief executives in dangerous times.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/23/opinion/23SUN1.html