This excellent Guardian article backs up my point about criticism of Cheney over the hunting accident. Glenn Reynolds rightly points out how opponents of the Bush White House are just shouting about everything in a “scattergun” manner, thus drowing out real constructive concerns: “the response to the “cartoon jihad” by Islamic extremists has been limp. There seems no clear plan, beyond allowing the obviously ineffective diplomacy of the EU to continue, for dealing with Iran. US domestic spending is out of control …“
This seems to be the Democrats all over – a rag tag bunch who have no answers and little coordinated critique of the current Washington shambles. They appear to be relying on the right personality being found to gain control of the Presidency and lead some sort of resurgence of Democratic support from the top down. Whilst this might work to an extent (though it didn´t with Clinton), it seems to be a risky basket in which to place all of one´s eggs.
The Democrats need to appear coherent and consistent, and need to remind the American people why they exist and what they stand for. They need to come up with some proper answers to the challenges facing the US and the World and mount a series of ruthless, but accurate, attacks on the current regime – for goodness sake, there´s no shortage of targets.
This diversion over Cheney just muddies the waters. It suggests that that´s all that´s wrong with Bush and his corrupt cronies, and all the other blather about Iran and what have you is just more mud-slinging from so-called “Bushbashers”.
It´s time the Democrats took control and started making the future, not just hoping they might stumble into some electoral success in 2008.
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