Naaaaaasty question
Kerry: The president said he was "tired of swatting flies." Can you tell me one fly he swatted in reference to Al Qaida?…Why didn't we respond to the Cole? Why didn't we swat that fly?
But I will pause and say Dr. Rice is handling herself as well as I expected. MAD long answers to Kerry (who just asked her not to filibuster him because he only has 10 minutes and she's DEFINITELY staying on message. The more she drags out her answers, the fewer questions can be asked.
Sometime in the last few days I heard a commentator suggest that had Dr. Rice testified the same day as Mr. Clarke did it would have been entirely difference, Said commentator was right. She's good, and the truth is less incompetence in responding to criticism and there'd have been much less criticism.
