A Diverted Public Attention

When your enemy is winning, redirect the fight. That is precisely what the Bush Administration is doing leading up to the mid-term elections. There is a direct correlation between diverted public attention and institutional injustice. The media is flooding public attention with relatively inconsequential issues on which the Bush Administration is trying to capitalize. The death penalty, for instance, has not been a significant political issue since the early 90's. Since the death penalty, regarding Stanley Tookie Williams, is primarily important for Californians, it is not something about which the President has to worry. Why did he comment about his position on the death penalty then? It is a debate anyone in his shoes would want to start to divert attention from the Iraq fiasco and the corruption permeating throughout the Republican controlled Congress. The President can talk ceaselessly about immigration, the death penalty, the economy, or the Supreme Court, but the Bush Administration and its supporters cannot readily escape reality. The public's attention will not be diverted from how the Administration propagates bad policy and encourages apathy and mismanagement.