The day that Dick Cheney was silenced

The day that Dick Cheney was silenced
The power behind the throne was out-manoeuvred by Edwards
Sidney Blumenthal
Thursday October 7, 2004
The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections2004/comment/story/0,14259,1321624,00.html
Each man had his mission for the vice-presidential debate. For John Edwards, it was to continue John Kerry's momentum from his debate triumph over President Bush; for Dick Cheney, to halt it in its tracks. Edwards assailed Cheney's credibility; Cheney demeaned Edwards's status. But the debate went past scoring points into a clash of political cultures.

Edwards began immediately to separate the Iraq war from the war on al-Qaida....