Reply #15: This is the issue that can win this election

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What an opening!

How much human energy has to be spent trying to figure out what the "plainspoken" and "clear" President says at any one time? What kind of message does muddled idiocy like this send to our enemies?

It can be won. By engaging Muslim countries and addressing the grievances, we can dry up the well of discontent and end the "war". There will always be fringy elements, but we can certainly curtail the broad enmity. By attacking the terrorists themselves instead of settling old scores with completely unrelated regimes like Iraq, we can stop them in their tracks.

George Bush has just shot himself in the foot bigtime, and this can destroy him. If he wants to back out of it, he's incompetent. If he wants to stand by it, he's unimaginative and defeatist.

Campaigns are won and lost on simplistic statements. At the very least, the reckless misspeaking of this adolescent is too dangerous to have around.