[HitmanLV]

In a short week the dems poll better on national security than the GOP, according to Rasmussen.

Thanks, Dubya.

[Purrcival]

"In a short week the dems poll better on national security than the GOP, according to Rasmussen.

Thanks, Dubya."

That's just a knee-jerk reaction, thanks mainly to the misreporting (once again) of this story by the LameStream Media. Most Americans are clueless when it comes to how ports are managed in this country. So was I, until this story broke and I started wading through all of the info I was getting, pro and con, from various sources. The media would have us believe that the U.S. is handing responsibility for port security over to the UAE. We're not. The Port Authority and the Coast Guard still handle security. And that's not the only thing about this that the media has been misreporting. Apparently, this is a lease of some berths in a port that are managed by Great Britain, and the lease is being sold to UAE. The MSM makes it sound like the whole port is being sold. And apparently, there have been foreign companies owning such berths for years, and all of a sudden, it's Bush's fault? Every new story that comes out is the "next thing that will FINALLY bring down the eeeeeeeeevil Bush Regime and cause Bush and Cheney to either resign or be impeached".

I just wish the Bush Admin had gotten ahead of the story before it could be spun to be something that it's not.
One of the problems was that they were on the defensive all week over BirdshotGate.

Once the "OMG! ARE YOU PEOPLE NUTS????" reaction dies down as people get the REAL info, I think those poll numbers will turn around. It might even end up biting the RATS in the butt.