Quote of the day II

"The difference between these Republican videos and the very terrorist propaganda that seeks to damage our society is negligible... Each attempt to stoke the embers of fear in order to disrupt American life. Just as Al Qaeda videos should be viewed as misguided rants from a small group of marginalized radicals, so too should these Republican videos be equally dismissed. As opposed to what the GOP thinks, the American people are not that naive."

&mdashRichard Clarke, who worked as a State Department and counter-terrorism official under Reagan, Bush Sr., Clinton, and Bush 43.