Frankly Kerry should have seen this coming

My favorite new Republican hypocrisy is the combination of Bush accusing Kerry of the infamy of blaming the missing explosives from Al Qaqaa (say it with a straight face) on the troops -which Kerry didn't of course, he was accusing Bush of bad war-planning - combined with Giuliani - with the blessing of the Bush campaign team - BLAMING IT ON THE TROOPS! Ya gotta hand it to Republicans, they really truly are devoid of all shame. It's really kind of an inverse purity...

Which is yet another reason I wish Kerry would have hit far more, FAR FAR MORE, on the domestic situation this last two weeks. The whole reason that Republicans want focus on "national security" and the "war on terror" is because it's a huge ruse to obscure their absolute failures on the domestic scene. (This is why, in the Eminem video for Mosh, the shot of Osama bin Laden turning into a cardboard cutout hiding Rumsfeld and Cheney talking is so brilliant.) While no one in America really has a grasp of these realities in Iraq, and how the Bush team bungled the planning - everyone can understand LESS JOBS, ENORMOUS DEFICITS, INCREASED POVERTY, LESS PEOPLE WITH HEALTH COVERAGE. Etc. No one understands this more than the Bush-Cheney team. Why Kerry didn't force domestic issues to take a far more prominent place in the dialogue, why he let the Republicans dictate the direction of the dialogue, is something that frankly bothers the hell out of me. I'm not saying he'll lose necessarily as a result, but he sure as hell would have done himself a favor casting a more constant light on these obvious failures, as opposed to the murky, obscure ones overseas.