Would a Terror Attack Help McCain?Randy Shawbyline‚ Jun. 25‚ 2008Charlie Black, a top adviser to John McCain, created controversy this week with comments in Fortune magazine that another terrorist attack in the United States “would be a big advantage” to the presumptive Republican nominee. Most pundits criticized Black’s bluntness, with some comparing it to Hillary Clinton’s citing Robert Kennedy’s June 1968 assassination as a reason for her staying in the race. But in the Los Angeles Times and elsewhere, pundits argued that while Black should not have expressed such views, his political analysis was correct. Yet it seems quite clear that the contrary is true. Since McCain and Bush both argue that U.S. troops in Iraq prevent terrorists from coming to our soil, an attack would defeat the duo’s last remaining justification for the ongoing war. And can you imagine how the media would have responded if one of Obama’s top advisors had claimed that the Democratic candidate would benefit from terrorism? |