Saturday, September 04, 2004

Voters on the fence

Monday’s opening performance was laced with sorrow and joy. The three women told heart wrenching stories of their love ones lost in the 9/11 plot. The Iraqi woman with the head wear on, thanking America for its sacrifice in its attempt to bring democracy to Iraq, along with two unique republican leaders justifying the war in Iraq, gave a sort of cohesiveness to the Republican National Convention that might resonate with those voters that are on the fence.

John Kerry is known for rising out of the ashes of the political dead. It is time for Kerry and Edwards to say something different about the Iraq war that would attract voters that are being swayed by John McCain and Rudy Giuliani. We know those two can’t get the anti-war vote. They can however get that ‘support the president wrapped in the flag vote’. Real stories from maimed soldiers, mothers of dead sons and daughters, and a real in depth look at the survival of a democracy in Iraq might make the whole Illusion justifying the Iraq war more transparent. The RNC is making its main theme and focus on the way George Bush has conducted the war on terrorism.

If Kerry can’t come up with a real way to attack George Bush’s short sightedness, then the depressing thought of four more years of George Bush will become a reality that many of us dread.

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