Projections

Here is something I spotted early this morning...

"We absolutely need to invoke Sept. 11 in the convention. This election will determine how we fight a war on terror that began right here in this city."RICHARD AGUILAR, a delegate to the Republican National Convention.

Mr. Aguilar is wrong. This election is about trust. The war will go on no matter who is in charge. The election is about whom we trust to prosecute that war. The man who masterminded the horrific events of September 11th is still a free man and the war on the people of Afghanistan and Iraq goes on.

And Mr. Bush's campaign communications director, Nicolle Devenish, said in an interview: "Those who support the president are inside the Garden. Those who are opposed to the president's policies are protesting outside the Garden."

And that is as it should be…Protest is as American as apple pie. That is what this nation is all about. Those who insist that I support the president as some form of patriotism have little understanding of patriotism or democracy. And I might add that it is those knee jerk conservatives that scare me the most!

And if you want a good view of the convention(s), check out Dan Walters column for this morning, in the Sacramento Bee...

http://www.sacbee.com/content/politics/columns/walters/story/10566321p-11485271c.html