i'm both surprised and appalled by all the media attention this swift boat nonsense is getting. the commercial challenging kerry's account came out and the credibility of the people shown in the commercial was already being called into question before we left for vacation two and one-half weeks ago. while i'm not surprised that the bush campaign (or at least the campaign supporters) would air such a smear, i was really surprised to learn that i had missed two solid weeks of intense media coverage of this non-story. it's not like the media was going through a slow period either. during the same period i was gone there was, and still is, intense fighting in najaf. fighting which, at least this morning, did not even reach the front page of the new york times. (there was, on the other hand, a story about the swift boat veterans group's attorney)
are people bored of the war now? not to let the bush people who pushed this issue off the hook, but some of this is kerry's fault. he's been avoiding talking about the war too--largely because he is unwilling to take a real stand on the issue. is it too much to ask that the majority of americans who now believe the iraq war was a mistake have one presidential candidate who is willing to publically articulate that view?
