Nothing for something
: Josh Micah Marshall writes in the NY Times, echoing what Micah Sifry (and I) have been saying: Iraq is a problem for Bush and for Kerry, too:
The danger for President Bush is clear: the public’s patience is not unlimited, and eventual failure in Iraq will almost certainly sink his candidacy. (Sometimes the conventional wisdom is actually right.)
For John Kerry, the risks are less obvious but no less real: running a campaign that focuses the voters’ gaze solely on the president’s manifest failures will probably run into resistance, especially with the voters he most needs to win over, those from the ambivalent middle. Mr. Kerry is far more likely to win if he has a plan to show how he