"EVERYTHING," HE DETAILED:

Now it's Bush's turn to squirm: Evidence of the president's fudged war record emerged in time to undermine the Republicans' triumphal march (Sidney Blumenthal, September 9, 2004, The Guardian)

[O]n the third day of the Republican convention, Kerry had given a penetrating and highly specific speech on the war on terrorism and Iraq, detailing how Bush's strategy amounted to a series of catastrophic blunders. "When it comes to Iraq," he said, "it's not that I would have done one thing differently, I would have done almost everything differently."

We're as fond of partisan hackwork as anybody, but it ought to be mildly coherent. Mr. Blumenthal's insistence that John Kerry was being "highly specific" in a speech where he demonstrated an inability to name so much as one thing he'd have done differently in Iraq is ludicrous.

Posted by Orrin Judd at September 11, 2004 9:01 PM