busyAide: Terror Attacks "Big Advantage" to McCain
Edward Luce and Andrew Ward report for The Financial Times: "John McCain's right-hand man hit a raw nerve on Monday when he said another terrorist attack on US soil would prove a 'big advantage' to the Republican nominee's general election chances. The comments by Charlie Black, who is arguably Mr McCain's most experienced adviser, put into words what many Republicans and Democrats have privately been stating for months."
If there is another attack and the Republicans try to use it to their advantage, there are two apt responses:
1) My, isn't that ... convenient. Let's find out if they staged it on purpose.
2) This is the regime that's supposed to protect us from terrorism? Oh yeah, they're doing such a great job of that.
They've had eight years to demonstrate that their party's platform will make America a better place to live. Now gas is $4/gallon, unemployment is rising, Iraq is a tarbaby, the army's coming apart at the seams, levees are dissolving like they're made of sugar, the health care system is destroying health and bankrupting people, and all the civilized countries hate us. It's time to try something else.
