NYT continues: "An American Debate: How Severe the Threat?"

[madfloridian]

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/05/politics/05react.html?hp

SNIP..."If the United States was in danger of a terrorist attack and faraway financial institutions were supposed to be on high alert, there was no evidence of it at Franks Diner, a 78-year-old Kenosha institution where senators mix with regular folk and the prospect of another attack seemed just part of the background noise of daily life

I don't know who on earth to believe anymore," said Michael Schumacher, a 54-year-old writer who was eating a bratwurst for breakfast. "You feel you're being manipulated all the time."

Some version of that view was echoed at almost every table here as many patrons questioned whether the Bush administration was trying to manipulate the terrorist threat for political advantage."

And Dean continues on CNBC at 10 tonight, a repeat of the 7:00 show on Capital Report.

[Toots]

1. Bush* has screwed this country up good.. How long til we can trust

what the governemnt tells us again? Will we ever trust the governemnt again? Does that make us even more vulnerable to terrorist attacks, in that now people doen't (on edit D'oh ) pay much attention because of lost credibility?

[shraby]

2. I haven't trusted the government since

Kennedy's death.