Bush Is "Scaring" America

John Kerry, in the midst of his "wooing the Security Mom" tour, got tripped (scroll down) up:

Tonight's debate is probably the last chance John Kerry will have to persuade Americans that he is capable of leading the country during wartime. His supporters must be hoping against hope that what he says tonight will be more coherent than what he's been saying since he started campaigning--up to and including this morning. ABC News reports on part of an interview with Diane Sawyer that aired today on "Good Morning America":
When asked why polls show Bush gaining support among women voters, Kerry said the president has been scaring America.
"He's talking terror every day and people see terrible images of what's happening in the world, and they're real--people being beheaded, the acts of terror in that school in Russia," Kerry said. "I feel that as any mom in America does or any father. I mean, I'm a parent too."
So Kerry is criticizing Bush for "scaring America," while acknowledging that the things they fear are real? In a way it seems fitting that this debate comes 66 years to the day after then-Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain declared "peace for our time." As the BBC reported back then, "many MPs are bound to criticise it as part of the Prime Minister's 'appeasement' of German aggression in Europe." At least they knew where Chamberlain stood.

Security Moms will sure as hell be watching tonight and Kerry better have something better than that to say.