Thursday, May 22, 2008
Do Old Farts induce hallucinations?
Neither Rosa Brooks nor I have an answer to that question, but she asks a similar question in her column this week.
In poll after poll, about two-thirds of Americans say they oppose the war in Iraq, believe things in Iraq are going badly for the United States, disapprove of the way President Bush is handling the war, consider even the initial decision to go to war to have been wrong and want the next president to end the war quickly. Yet -- and here comes the mystery -- polls also show that more Americans trust presumptive Republican nominee John McCain than either Democratic presidential candidate when it comes to handling the war in Iraq.Perhaps because he has been so totally wrong, people can't believe anyone would be such a blockhead.
McCain's the one presidential candidate pledging to continue the very Bush administration policies that got us into the mess we're now in, and McCain's record of getting it embarrassingly wrong on Iraq is virtually unparalleled.
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