Head In The Sand

Yesterday.

The president immediately mocked Kerry's latest attack, telling a New Hampshire audience that the opponent he has often accused of flip flops had done it again, continuing what Bush called a "pattern of twisting in the wind with new contradictions of his old positions on Iraq."

Juan Cole today.

I have a sinking feeling that the American public may like Bush's cynical misuse of Wilsonian idealism precisely because it covers the embarrassment of their having gone to war, killed perhaps 25,000 people, and made a perfect mess of the Persian Gulf region, all out of a kind of paranoia fed by dirty tricks and bad intelligence. And, maybe they have to vote for Bush to cover the embarrassment of having elected him in the first place.

How deep a hole are they going to dig themselves in order to get out of the bright sunlight of so much embarrassment?