Doug Ireland:
Why the Democrats will Get Trounced in 2002: ‘Five days before the bombing of Afghanistan began—in announcing the reopening of Washington to air traffic—George W. Bush

declared, “This Thursday, ticket counters and airplanes will fly out of Ronald Reagan airport.”

It was of this president with the addled tongue whom Al Gore spoke when, deploying the drawl he turns on when trying to seem folksy,

he hollered to Iowa’s Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner that “George Bush is mah commander-in-chief!”… Gore’s frothy nationalism symbolized the degree to which the Democratic leadership has

abdicated its responsibility as watchdog on a president who is, to much of the world, out of control.’ In These Times via CommonDreams