Time for the Fantasy to End?
Eleanor Clift writes in Newsweek of signs that the election might go in Kerry’s favor in the final days.
We’ve heard the reasons before: more bad news about Iraq, the huge number of new voters who have registered for this election and signs that the Bush campaign is getting desperate.
More importantly, she reminds us that Bush has taken fantasy to a new level. He’s not really a president, he just plays one on TV. He sees victories where there are none and his campaign has now resorted to doctoring photographs to create scenes and events that never really happened.
The story that broke late Thursday about the Bush campaign using a doctored photo in an ad should help drive home Kerry’s message in the final days. The image used is reminiscent of Bush’s parading on an aircraft carrier flight deck to declare major combat operations over in Iraq. Here he stands as the commander in chief before cheering troops, except on close examination, the same faces are repeated over and over in the crowd. The ad uses troops as props and manipulates the scene to create a Hollywood computer-generated picture of a war president. Kerry spokesman Joe Lockhart issued a statement demanding that the Bush campaign pull the ad, saying, “Now we know why this ad is named, ‘Whatever it takes’.???
The White House has spent four years creating a fantasy world around Bush. Win or lose on Tuesday, the mistakes Bush has made in Iraq have caught up with him.
Troops as props. I think that really sums up not only the picture but the war in Iraq as well.
But it’s not just troops as props, it’s all of America. For him or against him, we’re all props in his fantasy that he is delivering God’s message on earth.
I am not as confident as Clift that a majority of Americans have outgrown the Bush fantasy yet.
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