The Power of Incumbency

Presidential nominee John Kerry says publicly that he doesn't think the terror alert announcements are politically timed. Daniel Schorr of NPR doesn't think so either.

But what do you think of the coincidental timing of press conferences and terror alert action based on information that was known years ago. Why does the Bush Administration pick the week which historically represents the time when a presidential challenger gets his biggest bounce from his national convention?

They do it to take attention away from John Kerry.

No! No! It's in the interests of national security, other say. A former CIA anti-terrorism expert disagrees.

In the end, we may never know whether the intention of the current Administration was to steal the media thunder from John Kerry. We certainly know they could have foreseen such a thing happening.

Let there be no doubt that the power of incumbency gives one presidential candidate a huge advantage.