Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, handing out the administration line that America is safer now than it was before Sept. 11, 2001, still admitted Sunday America is not safe from terrorist attacks.
Vice President Dick Cheney on Sunday defended his lightning-rod role as a leading advocate for invading Iraq, for a warrantless surveillance program and for harsh treatment of suspected terrorists.
Al Qaeda marked the fifth anniversary of September 11 by posting video footage of Osama bin Laden exhorting the attackers to be patient in their preparations and to steel themselves for “martyrdom.”
President George W. Bush made a pilgrimage to New York’s Ground Zero on Sunday on the eve of the fifth anniversary of the September 11 attacks and said he would never forget the lessons of that day.
How ironic. Republicans, who won control of the House and Senate in 1994 by turning that year’s midterm elections into a national referendum on then-President Bill Clinton, now want to return to an “all politics is local” mantra to avoid getting tossed out on their asses because of President George W. Bush’s unpopularity.
You gotta wonder what the decision makers at CBS news are smoking over at West 60th. Must be at least a double doobie, based on what they considered to be news for the debut of their new Evening News with Katie Couric Tuesday night. Couric opened the show with a perky “I am very happy to be with you tonight,” which should have warned us all to switch over to the more professional Brian Williams at NBC.
In Arizona, one House candidate called party officials idiots. In Rhode Island, ad-makers turned a Senate hopeful into a political pinata. And that’s just Republicans attacking Republicans ahead of Tuesday’s nine-state primary night, the busiest of the year.
Democratic Senate candidate Ned Lamont, who recently denounced Sen. Joe Lieberman for his public scolding of President Clinton over the Monica Lewinsky affair, lauded the senator at the time for his eloquence and moral authority.
Former Vice President Al Gore said Sunday he hadn’t rule out making a second bid for the White House, though he said it was unlikely.
The United States’ treatment of prisoners in Guantanamo Bay and Iraq has done serious damage to the country’s image abroad, Republican Senator John McCain was quoted as saying by a German paper on Saturday.