London Observer (Sunday): Faltering Bush plays terror card

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Form the London Observer (Sunday supplement of the Guardian Unlimited)
Dated Sunday August 29

Faltering Bush plays terror card
Kerry leads in key states as Republicans mass for convention.
By Paul Harris

George Bush will take the stage at the Republican convention in New York this week to launch a last desperate fight for the White House. With two months to go, one of the bitterest and tightest elections in American history is now in its final stages.

The President is ready for the battle. 'I am not going to come in second place,' he told USA Today last week in a rare interview. But New York is not a welcoming place for Bush and the Republicans . . . .

Things are not going to plan for America's 43rd President. A year ago Bush was expected to be invincible; instead he is fighting for his political future. Last week a devastating, dirty campaign against his Democratic opponent John Kerry's Vietnam record continued unabated. Shadowy groups, funded by Republicans close to Bush, have chipped away at Kerry's heroic Vietnam image, but the fight is far from won.

The President's supporters are gathering for what they had hoped would be a victory party against a hopeless opponent. Instead Bush finds himself in a neck-and-neck race.

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If one wnats to know what is going on in America, one should read the British press.