Monday, April 28, 2014

The Art of Not Answering

I'm sure I'm biased, but it seems that Democrats are better at this than Republicans. I'm confident that it's the most important asset of a Press Secretary, though.

Here's Jay Carney deftly dodging. 

Really read his response, though. Major Garret points out that the US has acted (however weakly), yet Russia continues moving forward on Ukraine.

Carney has two responses: "The US can't force action simply by saying stop, and we will continue along the same path we are on." The first is a typical Obama tactic--the straw man argument. The second is devoid of information.

A Perfect Storm

I'm really tired of the over-use of the phrase A Perfect Storm, but this is just ridiculous! The Snowden revelation was not a perfect storm at all. He understood and took advantage of flaws within the system. A perfect storm is when rare events all happen at once. Clapper is just trying to hide the CIA's errors in the matter.