Bush = Unelectable
There is a television commercial, bought and paid for by Democrats currently unafiliated with any campaign, questioning Howard Dean's competence to handle foreign policy and his ability to measure up to George Bush in this area. Although there is a lot about this commercial, including its provenance, that bothers me, it is this last bit, that George Bush can somehow run so strongly on his foreign policy record that it would take an exceptionally strong Democratic candidate to challenge him in this area, that I find most bothersome.
That would be the Bush record that includes apparently ashcanning the Al Qaeda briefing provided to him by Sandy Berger, apparently turning a deaf ear to suggestions that terrorists would use commercial airliners as weapons, "thinking up" the idea of a department of homeland security six months after leading congressional democrats did, doing nothing to beef up security at our ports or at our commercial chemical and nuclear plants, compromising our search for Osama and weakening our "democratization" efforts in Afghanistan with his adventure in Iraq, lying to the world about WMDs and Iraq's nuclear capability, kissing Chinese butt when they captured one of our planes, thoroughly botching the whole North Korea thing, demonstrably weakening this country's ability, in the wake of Iraq, to defend ourselves against a real threat. Yeah, I can see why someone might have a hard time running against that record.
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