Spin, Baby, Spin

      It's bizarre enough living in this terrorism-obsessed Western world. It's even more bizarre when the Bushies, known so much for their tact and their subtlety, turn a basic threat into a campaign legitimation:

"The goal of the next attack is twofold: to damage the U.S. economy and to undermine the U.S. election," the official said. "The view of al Qaeda is 'anybody but Bush.'"

Okay, boys and girls, a vote for Kerry is a vote for Al-Qa'eda because Al-Qa'eda is Anybody But Bush. As a point of fact, if there's an "inaugural assassination" to their plots, if I were working behind the scenes, I'd worry about at an attack on Pakistani President Musharraf which could end up doing more political damage than a dozen small bombings. And yes, it is scary that we should have to think about things like this at all.