President Bush has recently found himself in a political tight spot because of the web the Democrats have spun over the past couple of weeks. They've called for him to renounce the swift boat ads, claiming that the President's people are responsible for the work being done by that organization. This puts him in a bad place. If he refuses to refute the ads, then it appears that he condones them. If he does refute them, then the Democrats will argue that he was actually the one running the whole affair and was, therefore, breaking the law.
Sadly, the President has decided to take the later option and has called on the swift boat members to stop their ads. The shame is that the President could have taken this opportunity to point out all the 527 money going to the Democrats via MoveOn.Org and other leftist hack groups. Instead, he choose what he thought was the more civil option and backed down. This makes him look bad and it lets the Democrats off the hook for their own bad behavior.
The one possible redeeming option is that President Bush can now, having fully condemned the ads, launch an even greater offensive against 527 groups and still use them to pin Kerry to the wall with his own refusal to outrightly condemn the 527 groups on his own side of the isle. Let's hope that Bush and Co. don't let up on this but continue to take the fight to the other party.
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