If this wave 2 is truly peaking, so should Bush's chances for re-election. if there ever was a recent President who should be recalled, he is it. He comes into 2004 with the worst economic record since Herbert Hoover, and potentially the worst war record since Lyndon Johnson. He has unwound in fewer than 50 months the multinational leadership that the US built over 50 years. Yet the Democratic challengers have scored few points other than Howard Dean's Vietnam-era pacifism, and were recently upstaged by the candidate who is not even in the race yet, Hillary Clinton.
The problem is that the candidate who is most qualified to lead has run an abysmal campaign. We are once again in a time when international issues trump domestic. John Kerry is the most experienced politician in the race for such issues (Wes Clark being not yet a politician, which is his strength in the campaign but his potential weakness in the job), yet he has failed to deliver that message. What should he do?
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