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EDITORIAL WRONG WAY PHIL ANGELIDES FORGETS HE'S RUNNING AGAINST ARNOLD, NOT GEORGE.


TRAILING badly in the polls, gubernatorial candidate Phil Angelides is trying to resurrect his campaign by taking a tough stand ... against the war in Iraq.

Um, wrong race, Phil.

While the war and President Bush's handling of it are easy political targets, the governor of California has little power to affect either. And would-be governors of California have little to gain by harping on them.

Angelides claims that as governor, he would order all California National Guard troops in Iraq to return home. He seems to be suffering from delusions
bizarre delusion  one that is patently absurd, with no possible basis in fact.
delusion of control  the delusion that one's thoughts, feelings, and actions are not one's own but are being imposed by someone else or other external force.
depressive delusion  one that is congruent with a predominant depressed mood.
 of grandeur.

The Supreme Court has ruled that on matters of national defense, the president, and not the governor, has authority over a state's National Guard units. In making the president the country's commander-in-chief, the nation's founders clearly intended for foreign policy to be made in Washington, and not in 50 state capitals.

Someone needs to remind Angelides that his opponent isn't George W. Bush. Instead of trying to solve the world's problems, he ought to focus on California's.
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Publication:Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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Date:Sep 28, 2006
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