Recently, Hillary Clinton made a comment that a terrorist attack would likely help the Republican Party and that she would be best qualified to confront the political implications of that in 2008.
She was quickly criticized by John Edwards who said that if a terrorist attack occurred, the last thing we should be is "engaged in a political calculation". Similar comments were issued by Richardson and Dodd.
What these critics are ignoring is that their Party's Senate Majority leader has already stated that Democrats are "going to pick up Senate seats as a result of this war". Where's the criticism of Harry Reid? His comment was equally, if not more offensive, and yet these candidates are mum about their out-of-control leadership.
A few posts ago, I described how Howard Dean played the politics of fear and yet every Democratic Presidential candidate layed low on the topic.
Finally a couple Democrats have turned the focus on their own Party in these difficult topics in which Democrats regularly fumble words and confuse ideology.
If only Edwards, Richardson, and Dodd were doing it out of a genuine care for the political process, rather than political calculations of their own.
Maybe then there would be some political backlash for what Obama said about US forces in Afghanistan.
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Perhaps the difference is that the war in Iraq was the decision of a Republican president, and within his control, while terroist attackes are not within the control of hte polical parties. Terrorist attacks are a tradgedy, but wars are a product of conscous decision making.
The fact that President Bush is a Republican doesn't mean Harry Reid can make political calculuations to the public while American troops fight and die in Iraq.
And don't begin to think Democrats wouldn't politicize a terrorist attack. After all, it's Democrats who constantly say "we're less safe because of this war".
Also, Democrats didn't stop politicizing at the tragedy of Katrina or the recent I-35W bridge collapse, so I wouldn't put a terrorist attack past them.
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