Saturday, July 21, 2007

Rudy's Bad Omen

All the presidential aspirants pay attention to public opinion and try to at least bend with prevailing breezes. Demagoguery aside, they're not going to actively pursue policies that cause them to lose support, image is everything at this early stage of the election farce.

McCain's ambitions are ending in complete disaster because of one thing only - he totally ran with the war pigs while the american consensus is turning against Iraq and the seemingly endless grind of bad news and dead bodies. I think his bizarre trip to Baghdad and his ludicrous stroll on the street, dressed in body armor and flanked with security was the beginning of his decline. People saw right through that stunt. And more and more people are just flat out tired of this "war" garbage imposed on us by people who use fear as political expediency.

Which is why it's striking and ominous that Giuliani picked a foreign policy team that cheer leads the current bloodbaths and even wants to expand the carnage:

"Of the seven other members of Giuliani’s “Senior Foreign Policy Advisory Board,” several have also been associated with PNAC and the CPD, most spectacularly, the legendary former editor of Commentary magazine, Norman “World War IV” Podhoretz, whose most recent contribution to Western-Islamic understanding was his article, “The Case for Bombing Iran” A founding father of neo-conservatism, Podhoretz is also, of course, the father-in-law of Deputy National Security Advisor Elliott Abrams whose own work in frustrating serious peace efforts between Israel and its Arab neighbors has been second only to Dick Cheney’s."

You'd think that seeing McCain go down in flames and watching Sockpuppet's numbers go south that Giuliani would temper his Israel First! rhetoric and pick slightly less bellicose aides. But he seems to be striving mightily to have the war baton passed to him in this race.

What does he know that we don't?

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