Let's Get Real - NYT

[Clinton Crusader]

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/24/opinion/24herbert.html?pagewanted=print&position=

September 24, 2004
OP-ED COLUMNIST
Let's Get Real
By PAUL KRUGMAN

Never mind the inevitable claims that John Kerry is soft on terrorism. What he must address is the question of how his policy in Iraq would differ from President Bush's. And his answer should be that unlike Mr. Bush, whose decisions have been dictated at every stage by grandiose visions and wishful thinking, he will get real - focusing on what is really possible in Iraq, and what needs to be done to protect American security.

Mr. Bush claims that Mr. Kerry's plan to secure and rebuild Iraq is "exactly what we're currently doing." No, it isn't. It's only what Mr. Bush is currently saying. And we have 18 months of his administration's deeds to contrast with his words.

The actual record is one of officials who have refused to admit that their fantasies about how the war would go were wrong, and who have continued to push us ever deeper into the quagmire because of their insistence that everything is going according to plan.
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[Pepperbelly]

1. Combine this with a lament ... Bush CAN'T be serious ...

When he says that he would do everything in Iraq exactly the same again, even knowing what he knows now about the very basis of the war, he cannot be serious.

When he says he wants to make the tax cuts for the rich permanent despite his own plan for deficit reduction depending upon those same tax cuts sunsetting, he cannot be serious.

There are many more examples of this in Bush's lying-ass record.

[punpirate]

2. Ummm, what was the quote a day or two ago?

Kerry: "Fantasyland? I drive by it. Bush lives in it."

Possession of the bully pulpit, in and of itself, does not confer sanity. It only implies it.