STEALTH POLITICS:

Candidate Daschle Would Have No Comment About Anything (Scott Ott, September 25, 2002, Scrapple Face)

Senator Tom Daschle said today that if he runs for president he'll have 'no comment' about anything.

"I just don't want to politicize the economy, foreign policy, social security, welfare, domestic security, and all these other issues that involve people's lives," the Senator said.

Mr. Ott has this one dead to rights. What is more political than a nation's decision of whether to go to war? And, as Clausewitz told us some years ago: "War is a continuation of politics by other means." How can you ever remove politics from such a matter?
Posted by Orrin Judd at September 25, 2002 8:59 PM