The news from Iraq's Abu Ghraib Prison should drive the final stake in the Bush Administration's heart. Yet like some Hollywood monster that just won't die it keeps on rising from what should be its political grave.
True, the "liberal" media keeps giving Dubya and company passes on topics it would crucify a Democratic administration on, but the Kerry campaign needs to exploit this current situation to the fullest. Why can't Kerry take off the gloves and act like the ballsy Navy lieutenant portrayed in his commercials.
A recent
LA Times story gives cause for some concern:
Michael Genovese, a political science professor at Loyola Marymount University and the author of 14 books on the presidency, said Kerry's cautious responses to the recent insurgency and the prisoner abuses had only further blurred his position for voters.
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Earlier last week, Kerry did not call on Bush to apologize for the incidents until after he was repeatedly pressed on the matter.
Let me just assure you that if I were president, we'd have a very different set of activities going on in Iraq today," Kerry told reporters during a stop in Northeast Los Angeles on Wednesday.
"But would you apologize?" he was asked.
"I'd want to get the facts and hold the people accountable and make the appropriate statements…. I said we ought to take appropriate responsibility," Kerry said. "If that means apologizing for the behavior of the soldiers when that happens, then I think we ought to do that."
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Of Kerry, author Kevin Phillips offered this observation to Bill Moyers on the
April 9 edition of NOW With Bill Moyers:
"I don't have a sense that he has a sense of the jugular. I think he sort of has the Democratic establishment sense of the capillaries. You know, they hate to go in there and really strike hard because they're not sure enough of themselves." Kerry was not my first choice. In fact at the single rally I've so far attended for him, his stump speech was deadly dull. Yet four more years of the Bush Cartel will ruin this country, so we need to get Kerry in The White House and recapture at least one of the houses of Congress.
In some respects Kerry doesn't need to campaign now because Bush and company are their own worst enemy but he definitely needs to focus his message.
I backed both Dennis Kuchinich and Howard Dean, as a precinct captain, because they powerfully and sincerely articulated their convictions. Kerry must start doing the same.
What can we do to light a fire under this man?
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