OCTOBER
3, 2004 --
Once
upon a time the presidential campaign got underway on Labor Day,
the major league baseball season ended with September, the World
Series was played the first week in October, and the presidential
campaign went full blast from that point to election day.
Nowadays, presidential politics must compete with post-season play. If voter
turnout continues to decline, the politicians can blame major league baseball
-- and, of course, offer a law demanding that the World Series
ends no later than three Sundays before than the Tuesday after the first Monday
in November.
Until the first debate, the left seemed ardently in the corner of Senator John
F. Kerry. But what is the left to do, now that the senator has made it plain
that if he is elected he will not immediately withdraw
U.S. forces from Iraq. And how about that declaration from the senator that
he will pursue and kill the terrorists?
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Does
Senator Kerry endorse these views? Does Dan Rather?
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Will the left now
amend its rainbow-hued banner to "Say No to Most of the Bush Agenda?" It
is not clear that the left -- certainly including Senator Edward M.
Kennedy -- can enthusiastically support Sen. Kerry's apparent position: I would
not have invaded Iraq, but now we must proceed in Iraq against the terrorists
smartly and with...vigor.
But then, we did not have large leftist demonstrations against the bombing of
Yugoslavia, if memory serves.
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The
oppose Bush agenda banner is submitted in connection with
my speculation the left has to be disappointed with Kerry's
support for
continuing the fight in Iraq.
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CBS
Broadcast Center on West 57th Street -- no pro-Kerry or
anti-Bush signs in evidence -- from the outside.
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Quotable
Quotes from the debate …
Some Kerry debate
comments on Iraq (from the transcript in The New York
Times, October 1)
" We have to succeed. We can't leave a failed Iraq." (Page A20)
" ... I'm going to lead those troops to victory." (Page A20)
" I will never let those troops down. And we'll hunt and kill the terrorists
wherever they are." (Page A21)
And one
more quotable quote …
"... I will hunt down and kill the terrorists wherever they are." (Page
A20).
(As previously noted, he said, on Page A21 -- "And we'll hunt
and kill the terrorists wherever they are."
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