{"id":474,"date":"2006-08-18T23:29:20","date_gmt":"2006-08-19T03:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/000af36.netsolhost.com\/wordpress1\/2006\/08\/18\/huh\/"},"modified":"2006-08-18T23:29:20","modified_gmt":"2006-08-19T03:29:20","slug":"huh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2006\/08\/18\/huh\/","title":{"rendered":"Huh?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I listened to Chris Matthews yell tonight<\/a> (click on \u2018Security Moms\u201d) with three reporters \u2013 Jim VandeHei of The Post, The Hotline\u2019s Chuck Todd and A.B. Stoddard from The Hill.<\/p>\n

Todd makes the statement that half of Democrats are against the Iraq War and half are \u201canti-war,\u201d as in \u201cpacifists\u201d who are \u201cagainst any war.\u201d Where does he get that statistic? Half of Democrats are against any war? He cites no proof for what he\u2019s saying. <\/p>\n

The host asks why can\u2019t the Democrats come up with a counter to \u201ccut and run\u201d? Wait a minute. Most of the country is against this war and most want a timetable for getting out and a sizable minority is growing for getting out now. Seems like the Dems aren\u2019t the ones needing a counter, as they\u2019re winning the argument.<\/p>\n

Stoddard says the Dems are having problems because a majority of Americans are not willing to get behind a timetable. Again, with a solid majority now thinking the war wasn\u2019t worth it, it doesn\u2019t appear the Dems are having that much of a problem getting their point across. Oh, and by the way, the last CNN poll<\/a> (scroll down) found over 60% said bring home troops at least by the end of the year and 57% want a timetable.<\/p>\n

And if you weren\u2019t sure that it\u2019s OK to think the war in Iraq was a dumb move, Todd says even George Will is against the war. I was waiting for the go sign from Georgie.<\/p>\n

What do you think the odds are that the Dems sent Matthews an email within the hour rebutting these points? By this morning? Yeah, me neither.<\/p>\n

And with it they should have named three people willing to appear on Matthews\u2019 Sunday show to discuss the Dems\u2019 point of view.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m going to bed and dream\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I listened to Chris Matthews yell tonight (click on \u2018Security Moms\u201d) with three reporters \u2013 Jim VandeHei of The Post, The Hotline\u2019s Chuck Todd and A.B. Stoddard from The Hill. Todd makes the statement that half of Democrats are against the Iraq War and half are \u201canti-war,\u201d as in \u201cpacifists\u201d who are \u201cagainst any war.\u201d… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}