Their strategy has been to clearly paint a rosy picture of the city and do their underhanded fighting outside the paid media.

Bloomberg cooks the books, cherry-picking statistics of certain groups rather than offering the whole, unacceptable picture.

The senator is not going to listen to the president paint a rosy picture on a disastrous situation. The senator believes, no matter how many speeches the president gives, that the policy on Iraq is broken.

They always gave us the rosy picture.

It's not a rosy picture at all.

This is not really a strategy document from the Pentagon about fighting the insurgency. The document is clearly targeted at American public opinion.