Reply #18: Remember "rapid response" from the campaign? I'm SO glad they still have the knack... [View All]

[Hekate]

... because the WH just cannot let the lies of Cheney or anyone else in the RW gain traction by ignoring them. That's partly how John Kerry was undone by the Swiftboat Liars -- he tried to rise above it, and by the time he responded they had managed to capture all the attention of the MSM.

Tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth and skewer the bastards with their own records. As "Give 'em Hell" Harry Truman said, "I just tell the truth and they think it's hell."

> To put it simply: this President is not interested in bellicose rhetoric, he is focused on action. Seven years of bellicose rhetoric failed to reduce the threat from al Qaeda and succeeded in dividing this country. And it seems strangely off-key now, at a time when our country is under attack, for the architect of those policies to be attacking the President. <

Hekate