Last night CNN was showing footage of Mondale campaigning under the title "Fritz Blitz." The word blitz comes from the German word blitzkrieg which means lightning war and conjures up images of the panzers of Rommel and Guderian racing through the French countryside in 1940 or across the Russian steppes in 1941.
After hearing Mondale's press conference yesterday I find it difficult to associate the word "blitz" with him in any way, shape or form. Rather his doddering, agonizingly slow paced style, at some points bordering on incoherence was more remindful of the terms "static warfare" or even "phony war" and his grasp of the strategic realities of the day seem to more closely parallel those of the French generals Weygand and Petain in 1940 than their German counterparts.
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