Your hitting it right on the head. The whole thing is being met by the public with a big ho-hum, and Bush's refusal to condemn these guys has left a perception that he is unable to offer much on current issues, so he'll indulge in this crap instead. On Larry King last night, he again went into his refrain about how he inherited a bad economy from Clinton, seemingly oblivious to the fact that most people are wondering how something from three years ago has any bearing on the mess we are in today, and WTF has he been doing about it? The whole rightwing crowd, and our posters show it, is looking out of touch and stuck in the past. Kerry is pretty clear on what he would do on the war on terror - build more international cooperation and abandon the me-so-tough posturing of these nuts. We are not dealing with an enemy on a battlefield - they are like an octopus with tentacles in every country, and we need cooperation with them to stamp it out, not chest beating and a neo-con nightmare in Iraq that has nothing to do with the problem. Bush wants to "stay the course". What course? He doesn't seem to have one.