It seems--"surprising" is not a strong enough word, but "bogus" seems over the top--of Hillary Clinton to chide Dick Cheney for not reporting his recent hunting accident that wounded a fellow hunter.
The Vice President's glacially paced acknowledgement of the incident was frustrating enough! Do we really need the Clintons announcing what is wrong and defining which actions lack honesty?!
Also, with so many Republicans faltering and the nation suffering painfully for those mistakes and gaffs, the nation really needs the opposition Democrats to offer some serious leadership alternatives. I'm not going to berate Clinton policy right now. In fact, my biggest complaint about the Clintons is not related to their policies. It is that Clinton-style politicing (there is guilt enough to go around to apply to both major parties) swivels policies with too much ease. Above all their other goals, the Clintons thirst for election and re-election. I'm not saying that politicians shouldn't want to be elected or want to be popular, but they would hopefully see election as a means to an end--that end being their political agenda based (hopefully) on their vision of a stronger, more prosperous and peaceful America in a better world. Clintons (and others) put the cart before the horse: policy for them is a tool to gain popularity. Policy matters less than the public opinion that results.
I don't think they'd mind being statespersonly if that were popular, but what I'm saying is that I'm afraid they and too many other politicians would not insist on taking statespersonly action if it were truly dangerous in a political sense and there were some safer (for their political careers) alternative. That's one of the kinds of "leadership" that America doesn't need.
Enough of that. Cheney should watch where he shoots, and he isn't alone in neglecting to think before doing, i.e. certain Danish cartoonists and Euro newspapers....