Wednesday, October 06, 2004

At right moment, Edwards pounced

Jimmy Breslin
At right moment, Edwards pounced
October 6, 2004
Somewhere around 9:45 last night, Richard Cheney, vice president of the nation, turned and said to Sen. John Edwards, Democratic candidate, that he missed big votes in the Senate and had the worst attendance record. Cheney said that he sat as the head of the Senate and was there for practically every session.

Cheney spoke in a deep, dull, confident voice and said things like, "al-Zarqawi has been in Baghdad before the war and after the war." As if all this smoke and fire and reports of dead soldiers and dead babies are an illusion....

http://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/columnists/ny-nybres063996617oct06,0,2810163.column