Tom Daschle spoke to the McGovern Day dinner in South Dakota this weekend and the Yankton newspaper reported as follows:
President Bush has lost international backing for his handling of the Iraq war, Daschle said."When Bill Clinton was president, they had to protect him from people who were getting at his tie and cuff links (for souvenirs). Now, we have to protect this president from people who want to get at his neck," Daschle said.
I'm not sure exactly what that means, but clearly Daschle is critical of President Bush on the war, which is a fine thing. So why run a cynical ad of Daschle-hugging-Bush?? Perhaps is has to do with some recent poll numbers on the Presidential candidates in South Dakota:
Kerry has gotten significantly less popular in South Dakota in recent months. While he has been rated well by about one-third of voters in polls since February, his negative ratings have climbed from 21 percent to 44 percent.
McGovern was a principled opponent of the Vietnam war and he deserves credit for his consistency and determination. But can anyone imagine him running an ad of him hugging President Nixon? Or saying the war was going great in South Dakota but saying something different in DC? Or of voting for a war that he had so many criticisms of?
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