Well, she certainly showed her mental agility here.  Using an opponents own words against him constitutes "swiftboating".  I think Obamalama knew when he was getting in this race that it would be tough and every single word he spoke would be scrutinized and parsed by his opponents.  Well, if he didn't, he needs better advisers.  Not a big Hitlery fan at all, but Obama has no complaint if she hits a slow hanging curve over the left field bleachers.

As far as the "good news from the front" stuff.  The lying libs have already announced their game plan.  If a report says things are going bad, well, that is the truth.  If it says things are going good, well, that is a lie pushed forward by the Cheney and the black helicopter gang.

Swiftboating – (verb)

(1) Using a person’s actual words or actions as evidence of their inconsistent or hypocritical behavior.

(2) Positive trait when it is employed against a conservative

(3) Negative trait when it is employed against a liberal. (See- Politics of Personal Destruction)

Arianna Huffington would only believe the "majority of opinions from experts on the ground" if she agrees with them.

And "swiftboating"????? Oh, puhleeze! The Swift Boat veterans said that John Kerry was dishonest about his service in Viet Nam and his medals. Hillary Clinton said Barack Obama's plan to meet with enemy leaders was naive and irresponsible. Please explain how the two are similar.

This is going to be the liberals' new whine (in old skins LOL)...forget "how dare you question my patriotism!" Now any criticism will be met with "They are swiftboating me!!"

but Arianna Huffington lost all attention span from me when in the California governor's race debate she accused Arnold Schwarzenegger of condoning the abuse of women because of how he had beat up on and crammed the face of the "female" character in his (then) last movie into a toilet ... The movie?  Terminator 3 ... The "female" character?  The ultimate killing machine Terminator from the future that had been designed to look like a woman as she went about killing anyone of any gender in her path on her way to killing the human male and female she was targeting so that the humans of the world could ultimately be terminated ... Preaching to the choir here, but as in T-2, Arnold's Terminator character in T-3 had been sent to save the two people she was targeting ... and in turn save humanity ... But that's beside the point.  He crammed her face into a toilet.

And don't get me started on Huffy-Puffy's beyond lame explanation to Sean Hannity her reasons for taking private jets all over the country and the world as she preaches how everyone else should cut back to Neanderthal life-styles in order to save the planet from GW.

I think we should start using a new term when someone has lost an election. He/she has been "Kerried Out".

"See, that was the problem with the Swift Boat vets. Since Kerry refused to release his records, all they had to go on was anecdotal evidence, and for every guy you could find who said Kerry was a scumbag, he could find someone who said he was great. And in the end, since Kerry kept the truth locked up, who's to say who's lying?"

That's easy -- Kerry was lying. Did you read Unfit For Command and follow the controversy that ensued? It wasn't one-for-one; it was more like twenty-for-one. Almost everyone who had first-hand experience with Kerry in Viet Nam said the same thing -- he was a lily-livered opportunist who would parlay minor injuries into purple hearts. Some of his medals appeared to be outright fabrications.

If his accusers are wrong, he could clear the whole thing up by releasing his military records. What is he afraid of?

In any war, most soldiers receive injuries of one kind or another but few aggressively pursue purple hearts and other awards the way that Kerry did. This is out of respect for those who came before, who really deserved them, and out of a simple sense of humility, something which Kerry utterly lacks.

They say that Kerry had his sights set on the presidency all the way back to his college days, and from everything that I've seen and read, I have no doubt that it's true.

Yeah, somebody said Swiftboat, and Arianna thought they meant some celebrity's yacht heading for the French Riviera ... "As long as you're heading in that direction, mind if I ride along, dahh-link?"