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Election 08: Who Wins in a Terrorist Attack? Not You.

Posted June 30, 2008

“This week, wags were atwitter over which presidential candidate would benefit most should terrorists strike the US prior to election 08. Nary a drop of ink was spilled in an effort to discern the effect such an attack would have on your bottom line… the country’s bottom line.” — Andy Carpenter

by Andy Carpenter

Baltimore – (TFN): The level to which the media sink in their effort to insult and ignore you on important issues, such as the economy and finance, still continues to surprise.

This week, wags were atwitter over which presidential candidate would benefit most should terrorists strike the U.S. prior to election 08.

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Nary a drop of ink was spilled in an effort to discern the effect such an attack would have on your bottom line… the country’s bottom line.

The terror flap began when John McCain’s senior advisor Charlie Black (a much nastier, far more cutthroat incarnation of Karl Rove) suggested that McCain would benefit from a pre-election attack on the US homeland.

The dull and dutiful media sold the sizzle and not the steak.

It put your and the country’s interests aside. Instead, it thin sliced the issue’s more perverted aspects. Over and over it focused on but two post-attack scenarios.

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One insisted that McCain’s ability to be elected would skyrocket. His military service and legislative experience give him an advantage as yet another “wartime president.”

The other suggested that a new terror attack would lead voters to decide that the country needed to change course, and they would vote for Obama. That scenario rests on the logic that voters would want change because six-years of preparation (and the failure to capture Osama bin Laden) couldn’t prevent another attack.

The only part you played in those scenarios was which candidate could best leverage the tragedy to win your vote.

So, at the risk of getting more laughable complaints about this author’s intellectual short comings – as if you really wanted to read one of my Harvard research papers or as if I could even compete with the intellectual heft found on most Internet websites – let’s take a quick look at what the media ignored this week. Read on to learn why.

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