21st
The “Ghost” is George W. Bush
Insightful (excerpt) commentary from Steven Grant’s “Permanent Damage” column at cbr.cc:
“While it’s a reasonably good bet the Ghost isn’t hoping for a terror strike, it surely hasn’t escaped his strategists that having one to boldly respond to, especially if the Democrats can be painted as the weaklings whose partisan blindness allowed it to happen, would be one of the few ways his reputation could be salvaged by history. But someone asked the other day if these continuous “warnings” of impending terrorism without any known facts to back them up isn’t itself terrorism, a blatant and cynical attempt to manipulate public sympathy and cooperation via fear. Remember when FDR proclaimed we had nothing to fear but fear itself? These days the message is more along the lines of we have everything to fear, but your government can save you if you just don’t argue with them.”
