So here I am watching CNN and guess what? We get another report of Bush at another anti-terrorism facility doing another tour and giving another press conference. You got to start wondering if these places are less effective when the President comes for these photo-ops? I mean they already got a hard enough job, but add the extra stress of dealing with a Presidential visit and it has to become overwhelming.
It’s funny how Bush constantly says they don’t look at the polls, but this week proves that to be different. As his approval rating remains stagnant or even slips, he seems to be working harder to be in the public eye. We are also seeing that many of these “terrorist” arrests that happened here last week were bad arrests.
Terror charges against two groups of Arab Americans arrested with hundreds of prepaid cell phones teetered in Michigan and collapsed in Ohio on Monday as authorities said they lacked evidence that the men intended to use the phones for evil.
Ohio authorities dropped charges against two Dearborn men arrested last week with hundreds of the disposable phones.
Meanwhile, officials in Tuscola County, in Michigan’s Thumb, kept three Texans locked up Monday evening even after Michigan State Police and FBI officials said they were apparently wide-eyed tourists rather than would-be terrorists when they photographed the Mackinac Bridge.
Add that to the news coming out that the UK plot was not as “imminent” as first reported and that the U.S. actually pushed the UK into acting faster than they wanted to and you get an excessive politicizing of fear and terrorism. Keith Olbermann did a great job of looking at the history of this tactic last night and John has the video. It looks more like America has woken up to these McCarthyism tactics and are not buying into them anymore.