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Thursday, September 09, 2004

MoDo Comes Out Swinging
Posted by Jill | 7:32 AM
I'm not quite ready to forgive Maureen Dowd for her continued Hillary obsession, but when the venerable NY Times twit is echoing my own personal hero, Marc Maron, perhaps the tide is turning at last (emphasis mine):


George W. Bush and Dick Cheney have always used the president's father as a reverse lodestar. In 1992, the senior Mr. Bush wooed the voters with "Message: I care.'' So this week, Mr. Cheney wooed the voters with, Message: You die.

The terrible beauty of its simplicity grows on you. It is a sign of the dark, macho, paranoid vice president's restraint that he didn't really take it to its emotionally satisfying conclusion: Message: Vote for us or we'll kill you.

[Note from me: Is MoDo implying that the Bush Administration might architect a terrorist attack on their way out of office in order to create an emergency that would prevent them from leaving office? It sure sounds that way, in which case Ms. Dowd is sporting the kind of tinfoil chapeau that even I envy.]

Without Zell Miller around to out-crazy him, and unplugged after a convention that tried to "humanize'' him with grandchildren, horses and wifely anecdotes about his inability to dance the twist, Mr. Cheney is back as Terrifier in Chief.

He finally simply spit out what the Bush team has been more subtly trying to convey for months: A vote for John Kerry is a vote for the terrorists.

[snip]

It's like that fairy tale where vipers and toads jump out of the mouth of the accursed mean little girl when she tries to speak. Every time Mr. Cheney opens his mouth, vermin leap out.


Obviously MoDo saw Marc Maron on Conan O'Brien a couple of weeks ago when Maron talked about wanting to see the lizard crawl out of Cheney's nose and into his ear during the inevitable debate with John Edwards.

MoDo is also kind enough to point out that if the Bush Administration is so great at protecting us from terrorism, then what's that hole in the ground at the corner of Church and Vesey Streets in New York?

The problem is that so far the American people seen to have proven that Fear Works.

It's our job to show them that it doesn't.
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