Reply #30: Good call

[chookie]

You're right -- they know now, have known for weeks, that they have been caught with fabricated evidence. The "Republican Guard" has been carpet-bombing the airwaves and Op Eds with the notion "Saddam himself was a weapon of mass destruction" and congratulating the USA for the humanitarian gesture of rescuing an opressed people.

The Goree Island photo op was to serve the same purpose as the one at Auschwitz -- to show the effects of "unstopped evil doers" and thus present Bush as a heroic crusader ushering in a Christian Utopia By The Sword.

Thus -- he is appealing to the innate decency of ignorant American swing voters who don't know enough about history or current events to know that Bush is actually one of the "evil doers" he loves to sermonize about -- and to attempt to woo African Americans that he hasn't been able to woo with the Good Negro examples of Condi Rice, Colin Powell, and Clarence Thomas, and Jewish voters. Presumably, the ballot in Palm Beach County will be re-designed this time so that a vote for Dean/Kerry/Kucinich/Lieberman/Gephardt/Sharpton/MoselyBrown will register as a vote for Bush.

African Americans are far too smart to fall for this shit, and already hate Bush in such numbers already that this is a lost cause. But more and more we are getting carpet bombed with Likkud infallibility, and the characterization of Palestinians as murderous terrorists just like Mohammed Atta that perhaps some Jewish Americans will fall for it. (Not any of *my* Jewish friends though!! They see right through this bastard, and through Sharon as well.)