Sunday, April 04, 2004

"John Kerry needs to lay out a serious plan for exiting Iraq and fighting terror before he gets much further into campaigning for president. If he doesn’t get it right, he doesn’t deserve the job." My newspaper column this morning is pretty simple: you can't be president without being very serious about security. "National security is the ineluctable issue of the 2004 election... With a plan, Kerry’s Vietnam-era status as both a hero and a critic of a war Bush avoided stands out as a mark of character. Without a plan, it’s just lines on his resume. With a plan, Kerry can talk about the enormous Bush deficits, the tax breaks for the rich, the deliberate deception about the costs of the corporate-welfare Medicare plan, the retrograde environmental policy, and the divisive, dangerous culture wars. Without a plan, those issues are moot to many voters." 8:09:39 AM    comment []