Reply #9: The Spin Begins... [View All]

[Yoda Yada]

Haven't we all been amazed at how easily this administration manipulated 9/11 into an "attack Iraq" focus of revenge. (15 0f the 19 attackers were Saudis, not Iraqis etc.) They so adeptly changed the focus from Bin Laden to Sadaam Hussein. We will see an even more aggressive campaign (in 2006) to change the focus concerning the wire-tapping issue. Spin...spin...spin... and yes, I am stating the obvious.

On January 3rd, and onward, the media will be slanting the news to "finding the whistleblower"...who released this classified information? How could this happen? Is our country now in danger? Are we less safe because of the leak? (Were they this aggressive about the Plame leak?) . There will be a barrage of "guesses" and hypothetical scenarios that will make our heads spin. If this diversionary tactic worked for 9/11...it will work again for the "scrapping of our Constituition".

Objective of the Republicans: Change Focus

Solution: Don't LET THEM change focus. Easy? Yes, it is.

Whenever the issue of "who is the leak" comes up...EVERY Democrat MUST reframe and say "First of all, that is NOT the issue...the issue is did President Bush ignore the law by authorizing the wire taps WITHOUT legal warrants? And (don't forget this)... By law, he COULD have tapped FIRST, and then, within 15 DAYS, asked for the warrants, and it STILL would have been legal. Why didn't he do this?

BEFORE ANY discussion takes place....make sure that the REAL issue is discussed, NOT the issue the Republicans want to talk about (i.e., who is the whistleblower?)

This should be EVERY Democrats New Year's Resolution....reframe..reframe...reframe... so the REAL issue is being discussed....not the smoke-screen issue.

Remember: "First of all, that is NOT the issue...the issue is (state the REAL issue)...."

Am I repeating, repeating, repeating, myself? Yes, yes, yes. You must, must, must, do the same, same, same.