John's Blog

Bush benefits from low expectations; Press corps allows blatant distortions from re-election campaign
"A press corps that relentlessly nit-picked Al Gore in 2000 in search of “little lies” and exaggerations has given Bush wide latitude to make things up. I guess the incumbent benefits from the soft bigotry of low expectations.....Bush finds it easier to cast his opponent as a friend of dictatorship than to address whether his policies have worked. Kerry probably shouldn’t feel too bad. Bush also dismissed a bleak report from his own CIA on the Iraq situation by saying the analysts were “just guessing.” Don’t pay attention to what’s behind the curtain."