Lonestar_logic
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Will someone please show me the "attack"?
if I didn't know better I would think you were kidding.
Main Entry: 1at·tack
Pronunciation: \ə-ˈtak\
Function: verb
Etymology: Middle French attaquer, from Old Italian *estaccare to attach, from stacca stake, of Germanic origin; akin to Old English staca
Date: 1562
transitive verb
1 : to set upon or work against forcefully
2 : to assail with unfriendly or bitter words
3 : to begin to affect or to act on injuriously <plants attacked by aphids>
4 : to set to work on <attack a problem>
5 : to threaten (a piece in chess) with immediate capture
Good....now, here is the news story from the link provided by the OP:
LAS VEGAS President Barack Obama is going on the attack against Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's Republican opponent, saying her views are too extreme and ridiculing her comments on the BP oil spill.
Obama never mentioned tea party-backed Sharron Angle by name at a campaign rally Thursday night at a Las Vegas casino. Calling her "Harry's opponent," Obama castigated Angle for referring to a $20 billion victims' compensation fund for the Gulf oil spill as a "slush fund."
After coming under attack for the remark Thursday Angle took it back. Obama ridiculed that, too: "I'm sure she meant slush fund in the nicest possible way," he said.
Said Obama: "She favors an approach that's even more extreme than the Republicans we've got in Washington. That's saying something."
STILL, looking for an "attack"...
Still? Even after I provided the definition of "attack"? You do know that an attack doesn't explicitly mean a physical confrontation, don't you?