Earth to media -- you took the bait again.
this administration has perfected the reverse Midas touch -- everything it touches turns to lead. Whether it's healthcare, the economy, the war, education, the environment, civil rights, ANYTHING. And rather than ask why this administration has been such an abysmal failure on virtually everything important to the American people and what the democrats would do to change it, we're fixated on a handful of lies in an ad that originally ran in just three states.
So rather than just complain, like I usually do, here's my idea to get this campaign back on track. Remember the press conference the preznit held back in April? It's the last one he held, and for good reason. The Kerry campaign should run an ad that simply takes this clip from the press conference:
Q. In the last campaign, you were asked a question about the biggest mistake you'd made in your life and you used to like to joke that it was trading Sammy Sosa. You've looked back before 9/11 for what mistakes might have been made. After 9/11, what would your biggest mistake be, would you say? And what lessons have you learned from it?
A. Hmmm. I wish you'd have given me this written question ahead of time so I could plan for it. I'm sure historians will look back and say, Gosh, he could have done it better this way or that way. You know, I just ? I'm sure something will pop into my head here in the midst of this press conference with all the pressure of trying to come up with an answer, but it hadn't yet.
And as prezint is stumbling over his answer, hesitating, wishing the question was in writing, the commercial would be flashing on the screen: "One million jobs lost... Two million more Americans without health insurance... Millions more children failing schools.... Faulty intelligence on WMD... More than a thousand killed or wounded in Iraq... Osama bin Laden still on the loose... One million more Americans in poverty... Oil hits $50 per barrel... Retirees losing health benefits... Abu Ghraib scandal... Promises broken on pollution reduction... Halliburton... Enron... Reading "My Pet Goat" to second graders while knowing America was under attack.
