Sunday, September 26, 2004
Bush II is no Dukakis
I was reading an interesting commentary in today's Sunday paper (Kansas City Star) in which a columnist draws an unflattering comparison between Michael Dukakis and our president. Apparently, during the 1988 election cycle, a group had pieced together various tales from the vice-president's military career, specifically the incident in which Bush bailed from his plane, leaving two soldiers aboard who died in the subsequent crash. Questions were raised about the incident, and apparently some Dukakis supporters wanted their candidate to make something of it. Dukakis refused and the idea died ... as it should and where it should.
For better or worse, the war records of this year's candidates are effectively done as a political issue. People who wanted to be convinced by either side were probably convinced at the outset. Everyone else is tired of the delay and some of us still hold out hope for somebody to touch on the real issues.
