From Allen Brill today:
Having problems with your credibility on issues like war and peace, the economy and the military record you try to flaunt? No problem. Just find a group to pick on and try to distract enough of the American public using hatred and fear to pull off an election victory.
Brill is talking about Democrats and Republicans exploiting the marriage issue, of course. Read more at The Right Christians.
As much as I want to get married, I’m thinking that this is a classic attempt to distract us from the shell with the pea under it.
Belmont Club tells about the nuclear terrorism threat that the 2004 political campaigns are fleeing instead of confronting.
(Thank you, Michael Demmons, for pointing out that site.)
Then, of course, there’s the deficit, health care, offshored jobs, both parties’ liability for allowing Sept. 11 to happen….