Thursday, October 07, 2004

Cheney vs. Edwards on the battlefield

"Cheney got a bit hotter when he said that since Kerry and Edwards couldn't stand up to Howard Dean and stick to their votes to authorize war, how could they stand up to al Qaeda? Other pundits have already declared this the "killer quote." But it didn't really shiver my timbers. " Edwards shoots and scores.

This is such a stupid line for Cheney. I've heard conservatives saying that Edwards couldn't stand up to Cheney, so how can he stand up to our enemy? This obscures the fact that in Edwards' mind, Cheney is not the enemy! Howard Dean is not the enemy! It shows how uncivilized and divided we've become. The metaphor doesn't hold. It was an abstract debate, not a physical war, and Edwards was polite and civil, Cheney was rude and emotionally numb. Despite the neocon rhetoric, Edwards did win the debate. And to extend the neocon's erroneous metaphor, let's see Edwards and Cheney on an actual battle field and we'll see who prevails.

No one has remarked on Cheney's inability to look Edwards in the eyes when he dissed him. That dog won't hunt because that's the technique of a snake that is used to hiding under his handlers' rocks.

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