Enemy Combatant
Saturday, October 09, 2004
No More Mr. Nice Guy
Come Wednesday, I hope somebody's worked John Kerry into the proper state of mind for his last debate with Bush -- which is to say, politically homicidal. It's time to bare those teeth, Big John. It's time to show the American public the proper, patriotic way to frag a superior officer.
No more of this halfway, mealy-mouthed bullshit -- I want him to call Bush a liar, and use that very word, repeatedly. I want him to talk about the cooked intelligence that led us to Iraq (and to call THAT war a mistake). I want him to talk about Abu Ghraib, and Gitmo, and how those are a national disgrace that will haunt us well into this new century (if not longer). I want him to say if Bush had any real sense of "restoring honor and decency" to the White House, he'd have resigned a long time ago.
I want the issue of the day for the Media Attack Poodles to gnaw on endlessly the next day to be framed as follows: Has the Bush administration been worse than the Herbert Hoover administration, or about the same? You decide.
If he needs to watch Congressman Ryan's comments on the "draft dodgers" in the GOP House this week, or read about what Nancy Pelosi managed to sneak past the Republican Politburo, to pump him up, I'd say go for it. Ask the American public for exactly what you want: A Democratic Congress, to replace the Do-Nothing GOP Congress that's currently wasting space at Foggy Bottom. Hell, you gots to go all Harry Truman on his ass; get all up in his grill, yo.
For this last debate, please, Big John -- it's time to get your Howard Dean face on.
