Tim Cavanaugh | September 30, 2004
Nick Gillespie sounds the red alert.
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|9.30.04 @ 7:48PM|#
Hey Nick -- Why focus on just the last 40 years of presidential pronouncements? Presidential dissembling has been happening since at least Andrew Jackson's "kitchen cabinet" meetings.
|10.1.04 @ 7:50PM|#
"But it's totally plausible to wonder if, how, and when terror alerts are being politicized."
Er, except when Howard Dean does it, apparently.
As a bit-saving measure the first few paragraphs of the article could have been reformatted as:
"Howard Dean is an asshole and I dislike him.
Also, there's reasonable evidence that there is a political motivation in the handling of terror alerts"