WP: Bush Stresses Commander-in-Chief Role

[kskiska]

Focus on Security Leaves President Vulnerable Despite Rise in Polls, Strategists Say

President Bush has risen in polls after taking the calculated risk to elevate security issues over pocketbook concerns in the campaign's home stretch. But strategists in both parties said that approach leaves him with acute vulnerabilities in case of an economic shock, a terrorist attack or heavy attention to a bloody October in Iraq.

Administration officials disclosed plans yesterday that show the many ways Bush will try to emphasize his role as commander in chief. He will interrupt his swing-state travel in just over a week to go before cameras at the United Nations with the interim president of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai. Two days later, Bush will welcome Iraq's interim prime minister, Ayad Allawi, to the Rose Garden.

The week after that is the scheduled start of the campaign debates. Bush's negotiators plan to insist that the first debate, to be devoted to domestic issues, will include homeland security, according to outside presidential advisers.

The exposure for Bush was clear as security spiraled out of control in Baghdad yesterday, with insurgents shelling the heart of the city with mortar and rocket barrages just days after U.S. military deaths in Iraq passed 1,000 and the Pentagon admitted that rebels control swaths of central Iraq. With violence flaring in urban areas last month, the United States suffered its highest combat injury toll for any month since the war began.

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[bvar22]

1. And the Democrats need to stress bush*s role as:

INCOMPETENT & BLUNDERING Commander in Chief who has needlessly invaded the WRONG COUNTRY, thrown away 1,000 American lives, & didn't finish the job in Afghanistan.

[LTRS]

3. And everytime they say "we can't afford the health care..."

programs that Kerry has proposed, the Kerry campaign should come back with "well we sure as hell could if we hadn't spent $200 billion going it alone in Iraq. And we sure as hell can't afford a president who makes $200 billion dollar mistakes."

[GoddessOfGuinness]

6. Especially when we're paying for the health care

of the people he's responsible for wounding and maiming.

[PartyPooper]

2. Role of C-I-C: take 40% time off campaigning, golfing, clearing brush,

and taking "photo-ops" at every possible secure and vetted military venue.

It can't be that fucking difficult!

[kskiska]

4. "I'm Commander-in-Chief." See? It says so right here

on my bomber jacket, and my belt buckle, and my cowboy boots.

[Geo55]

5. yep....our useless , dumbass CIC