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ORLANDO, Fla., Mar 24 (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney on Friday rejected charges by Democrats that the Bush administration was mishandling Iraq and said: "If they are competent to fight this war, then I ought to be singing on American Idol." During a campaign stop in Orlando, Cheney predicted that national security would dominate congressional elections in November and sought to rally Republicans amid dwindling popular support for President George W. Bush. In Washington, Democratic National Committee spokesman Luis Miranda called the criticism of his party an attempt to divert attention from the situation in Iraq, which is...

Dear Friends; First of all, the media is trying to spin this as a 'draw', but Cheney won hands down. In fact, he opened up a big fat industrial sized can of whoop-you-know-what on poor little Senator Gone (as America now knows Edwards home town paper's nickname for him). The conservatives have made a great deal of Senator Kerry's absence from many key committee meetings and senate votes, but it was interesting the way the Vice President brought out Edward's own absense from the Senate. Basically Cheney said that as Vice President he takes his duty as President of the...