Lunch at the Labs

Cheney quoting Kerry out of context.

In Dick Cheney's RNC speech on September 1, 2004 the Vice President said to laughter and cheers from the partisan gathering:

He (John Kerry) talks about leading a "more sensitive war on terror" as though al Qaeda will be impressed with our softer side.

What John Kerry actually said on August 5, 2004 at the Unity 2004 Journalists of Color conference was:

I believe I can fight a more effective, more thoughtful, more strategic, more proactive, more sensitive war on terror that reaches out to other nations and brings them to our side and lives up to American values in history.

Although he did use the word sensitive, he used it in the same sentence with strategic and proactive. There is nothing soft about fighting terrorsim in John Kerry's statement. Is it fair to take one word out of context? Why does the media let politicians get away with this kind of stuff? Here are some questions for Dick Cheney no one will ask him:

- Did you read John Kerry's original speech?
- Did you really not understand what he said?
- Is there any distortion you will not make to get elected?