Cliff Schecter: Barack Obama can't ignore Republican attacks | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

"George Bush was a cheerleader in high school. He ran multiple businesses into the ground, was bailed out by daddy, was a drunk for years, probably used cocaine, was arrested for drunk driving, went AWOL on military service in the Alabama Air National Guard and had only the political experience of being governor of Texas for one and a half terms, the weakest state chief executive in this country (Texas' state constitution gives most of its powers to the lieutenant governor).

And yet Gore and Kerry could not find a way to portray this man as unworthy of the office he sought to inhabit, so he has gotten to inhabit it for eight long years, while the U.S. has suffered through every disaster short of a plague of locusts descending upon the land."

The Electoral Campaign of 2008 will once again be a watershed moment for the nation. And by extension, the world. Will Barack Obama and his staff gut the Republican heist-fest or will We see more of the same We've seen for 30 years?