Open Mouthed In Wonder

President Bush visited my state again, dammit. Amid the rhetoric, he had this to say:

"We've got an issue in America. Too many good docs are getting out of business. Too many OB-GYNs aren't able to practice their love with women all across this country."

I am not kidding you. But wait, there's more. V.P. Dick Cheney was in Iowa yesterday, and boy did he say the wrong thing:

"It's absolutely essential that eight weeks from today, on November 2nd, we make the right choice, because if we make the wrong choice then the danger is that we'll get hit again," the vice president said, "that we'll be hit in a way that will be devastating from the standpoint of the United States, and that we'll fall back into the pre-9/11 mind-set, if you will, that in fact these terrorist attacks are just criminal acts and that we are not really at war."

Wow. Did I read that correctly? Did the Vice President of the United States threaten us with a terrorist attack? Did he actually imply that our country would be hit by terrorists, and that the US would do nothing in return if John Kerry were president?