It's weird and botched.

It added to the sense that we were headed toward a confrontation and people were looking for ways to spark this.

There are ominous signs that we're stepping up the pressure and that they're stepping up the pressure simultaneously.

I think, Anderson, that we have known sort of through whispers and rumors that the vice president was very heavily involved. This is the first direct evidence of the vice president's extraordinary involvement.

So this is building, legally and politically, this is really building.

It's hard for a law and order administration too to say, well, if somebody else does it, they have to go to jail, but if it's one of ours, they don't, you know, they don't have to pay a price.

If this does not work, the Democrats are much, much more likely to take the White House in '08.

There seems to be one aspect of this speech which hasn't gotten a lot of attention yet, is that rather than negotiating with Iran and Syria... he's moving a carrier group into the area.

It would be a nightmare if Iran gets a nuclear weapon, for example, as a Shia nation and then Egypt gets nuclear weapons as a Sunni nation.

The president has now thrust this into the '08 election. Now they're certain to be in Iraq during '08. And everybody's fate is suddenly tied to that.

The Democrats don't want to take responsibility for the policy in Iraq. They want to leave that responsibility in the hands of the president.

Every sign points to the fact that within the next couple of weeks, Barack Obama is going to declare -- and around the same time period or shortly thereafter, that Mrs. Clinton is going to declare...