The left is now rushing to accuse the right of ‘spin’ regarding the SOTU sentence heard round the world. For example:
Jesse at Pandagon: I love watching Republicans under the gun. So far, the spins (none of which are sticking, because none of them made sense): – It was one sentence!
The Atriettes: The “one sentence” — in the President’s constitutionally mandated State of the Union speech — was the one that implied Saddam Hussein was threatening us with nuclear weapons.
You’re at a wedding — the groom says “I don’t” instead of “I do” … “It’s just one sentence!”
You can laugh at the spin over the spin, should you choose. What should annoy you is the way the Democrat National Committee is editing the sentence to distort the President for their own political gain:
On Thursday the Democratic National Committee released a television ad, entitled “Read His Lips: President Bush Deceives the American People,” accusing Bush of lying when he mentioned the uranium issue in his State of the Union address.
The ad calls for a bipartisan investigation of the issue. It was produced by a group of veterans of the Clinton/Gore administration and several Democratic campaigns.
The ad begins with the words, “In his State of the Union address, George W. Bush told us of an imminent threat