Social Security and Right Wing Smear Tactics

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Once again, just as W. runs into political trouble, he floats above the fray while the help takes out his opponents.... It began with an almost comically hyperbolic Internet ad that briefly ran on The American Spectator's Web site, painting AARP as pro-gay sex - even though it's tough to think of AARP and steamy lust in the same hot breath - and anti-soldier. It showed a soldier with a red X across him, and two gay men kissing at their nuptuals, with the headline "The REAL AARP Agenda."

-- "Swifties Slime Again" by Maureen Dowd for The NY Times

President Bush's privatization schemes for Social Security are floundering. The high-powered lobbying group for retirees, AARP, is coming out big against the Administration. One wouldn't think a dry issue like Social Security and financial plans would be open to the most incendiary of political tactics - picturing more of a battle between accountants with competing spreadsheets - but Ms. Dowd shows us how naive that would be.

It is said that democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others. Politics like this can make it a tougher call.

( Dowd column )

Social Security and Right Wing Smear Tactics

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Once again, just as W. runs into political trouble, he floats above the fray while the help takes out his opponents.... It began with an almost comically hyperbolic Internet ad that briefly ran on The American Spectator's Web site, painting AARP as pro-gay sex - even though it's tough to think of AARP and steamy lust in the same hot breath - and anti-soldier. It showed a soldier with a red X across him, and two gay men kissing at their nuptuals, with the headline "The REAL AARP Agenda."

-- "Swifties Slime Again" by Maureen Dowd for The NY Times

President Bush's privatization schemes for Social Security are floundering. The high-powered lobbying group for retirees, AARP, is coming out big against the Administration. One wouldn't think a dry issue like Social Security and financial plans would be open to the most incendiary of political tactics - picturing more of a battle between accountants with competing spreadsheets - but Ms. Dowd shows us how naive that would be.

It is said that democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others. Politics like this can make it a tougher call.

( Dowd column )