Fascinating article for this Sunday’s NYTimes magazine, covering a much larger and more realistic context of Kerry’s views of “The War on Terror”. This is what is missing from American political discourse. The article does not shy away from revealing how Kerry often exudes defensiveness and paranoia about ulterior motives of the press (including toward this interviewer) I’m about half Continue Reading

(Where n is a number to be determined). Although Bush expressed surprise at Kerry’s assertion that the president earned $84 from his investment in a timber company and, thus, qualified as a small business — “I own a timber company? That’s news to me. Need some wood?” — the Web site www.factcheck.orgbacked up Kerry’s assertion. Cheney made a huge mistake Continue Reading

Article in the Washington Post about mistruths in the debate, and on this score, Bush was the clear winner. There are SO many “hidables” in the Bush plan that their modus operandi has to be coverup. If they were straight with the Anmerican people about what thy’re trying to accomplish, they’d be booted out. So they use the deceptive names Continue Reading

I kind of liked that when I first read it in the comment section on Daily KOS. Winger says it should be likened to the flap about the Dean Scream (BURNING BUSH DEAN SCREAM ) and used to batter and destroy Bush as unfit. I truly believe this is related to his fitness for office, however, unlike the absolute debacle Continue Reading

I had read of the doubts and dismay of Colin Powell about the exploits of this administration by reading Bob Woodward’s Bush at War and Plan of Attack Air America Radio | The Al Franken Show Colin Powell didn’t find out the truth back in 2001 by parachuting into Iraq and gathering his own information – he knew exactly what Continue Reading

CNN Kerry: 82% Bush 16% Even 2% MSNBC Kerry: 74% Bush 26% USA Today: Kerry 47 Bush 45 (the only close one I’ve seen) CBS: Kerry 88% Bush 12% Yahoo: Kerry 65% Bush 33% Tie 4% Chicago NBC: Kerry 77% Bush 22% Tie 1% WinstonSalem NC (Bush country) 77% Bush 22% Tie 1% St. Louisd Post-Dispatch Kerry: 72% Bush 27% Continue Reading

Well, he didn’t stumble over himself, but he continued to show the apparent inability to navigate off the message , indeed, the very words and phrases of the message, and did it with his normal lack of eloquence. And he continues to lie about his administration’s destruction of practically ALL environmental advances and protections. “He more than held his own”. Continue Reading

Bush just raised the question in responding to the stem cell issue that is relevant to the area where Bush seems to have no corresponding deep hesitation: in Iraq. Bush said that science and ethics should be balanced. But no such hesitation to continue on a destructive, life-taking , violent, unorganized, “say the course” debacle in Iraq. NO such respect Continue Reading

“Non military non-homeland spending is at 1% instead of 15%” Bush said proudly. You know where that “cut” came from…..education, health care, environmental policy apparatus (replaced by buy-offs and bonuses and other untold favors by companies hot-to-trot to get environmental regulations relaxed and or removed, health and safety expenditures cut and/or removed (again, aided and abetted by companies hot on Continue Reading

This is the beginning and the end of the “BUsh plan”. “Liberty can change habits”. Freedom. Liberty. Terrorists, hating us for our way of life. Tax cuts. Freedom. Liberty.

It’s very hard to listen to a man who obviously has no capacity to recognize WHAT question is being asked, and to see failure and admit some responsibility in that failure. He continues to utilize arguments that depend on there being WMD’s , and his own panel yold him there were not, and that Saddam did not have facilities to Continue Reading

Bush just stood up and responded to a question about how the US can do better at diplomacy by saying that his decisions are not popular, but that right decisions are not always popular. In other words, the way to diplomacy is to refuse to admit wrong, and to insist that our way is the only way. He is a Continue Reading

I was hopin gto find a video of SNL from this past Saturday, in the opening segment where they did the Debate, and the Bush character was Hilarious (“…..uhhhhh……grunt……. hard work….”) I was rolling. There’s also a new JibJab which is irreverent to both sides which is pretty funny (Good tgo Be In DC, sung to tune of Dixie)(www.jibjab.com) Found Continue Reading

Boston.com / News / Politics / Presidential candidates / Polls show key Kerry gains A poll conducted by Zogby International after Kerry introduced the North Carolina senator as his vice presidential pick indicates that the Massachusetts senator was in a flat-out tie with President Bush in Tennessee, with both at 48 percent. A Zogby poll less than a month earlier Continue Reading

JOHO (David Weinberger) expresses something I’ve told several of my friends, who hint at being undecided: The chances of getting a Third Party or ANY populist movement any cahnce in hell will occur under a CHANGED White House; and this neccessitates getting these totalitarian, miliatraitic, lying bastards out of there. Joho the Blog: Would Dean have done better? I believe Continue Reading