The wishful thinking of clicking your heels together and murmuring, "There's no place like home," should not be the basis of our foreign policy.
The White House is not blindly lapping up their own rosy neo-con PR spin, and are actually doing some contingency planning for a change.
What will Republicans trot out this election year? What will be their outrageous attempt to swing the election? What plot is Karl Rove et al. currently hatching to give the GOP an edge?
Republicans have already proven they aren't afraid of politicizing both 9/11 and Osama Bin Laden. Democrats shouldn't shy away from turning these issues to their advantage.
These are encouraging signs that Democrats are rediscovering how to run a good campaign. It's true that two vertebrae do not a backbone make; but it is indeed a step in the right direction.
