From the AmSpec Blog:
McCain strategist Charlie Black's statement in a Fortune interview that another terrorist attack on U.S. soil "would be a big advantage" for McCain was certainly a boneheaded one to make publicly, but Jim Geraghty assumes that Black's underlying assertion is obviously true. I'm not so sure. Geraghty's correct that a terrorist attack would shift the debate back to national security, which is McCain's strong suit. However, the debate won't necessarily get framed in a way that's favorable for McCain. If there were another attack, Obama could point to it as the ultimate proof that the "Bush-McCain" policies have failed ...(More)
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