Miserable Failure Yeah! “The president would have us believe that his record is the result of bad luck, not bad decisions, that he’s faced the wrong circumstances, not made the wrong choices,” Kerry said in excerpts of remarks prepared for delivery at the Detroit Economic Club, a traditional forum for presidential candidates. “In fact, this president has created more excuses Continue Reading

Silicon Valley – Dan Gillmor’s eJournal – CBS’s Credibility Gap#010787 As I say in the comments, the memos may be real. CBS hasn’t provided satisfactory answers, in my view. I hope it will. I also agree that this situation is made to order for people who want the attention to be taken off the bigger story. — Do I believe Continue Reading

Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall: September 12, 2004 – September 18, 2004 Archives The word is out and about now that the CBS Bush National Guard memos are not forgeries but rather recreations of actual documents authored by Lt. Col. Killian. That theory gains credence from the fact that Killian’s secretary has now said that though she believes Continue Reading

Former Clinton aide compares church, political gatherings While partisan politics may not be the best arena for the church, [McCurry] said, “the business of impacting a community and dealing with those who are dispossessed and doing a lot of things that are inherently political — that’s right there at the core of what we’re called to do in the Gospel.” Continue Reading

Hilarious (if not scary) stuff Daily Kos :: Political Analysis and other daily rants on the state of the nation. The Republican Manifesto one of my favorites: Typewriters in the 1970s were incapable of producing memos critical of Lt. George W. Bush.

‘War President’ Bush Has Always Been Soft on Terror Where’s George Orwell when we need him? Because we Americans need him. We desperately need him. Consider: in August 2001, immediately after reading a memo entitled “Bin Laden determined to strike in US”, President George Bush went bass fishing – and never called a meeting to discuss the issue. A month Continue Reading

Powell: Unlikely WMD Stocks Will Be Found in Iraq WASHINGTON – Secretary of State Colin Powell, who made the case to the world that pre-war Iraq had stocks of chemical and biological weapons, said on Monday he now thought these will probably never be found.

If you’ve heard or read some of Seymour Hersh’s New book, Chain of Command, you won’t be as surprised to read this. US Troops Face New Torture Claims BAGHDAD – Allegations that American soldiers routinely tortured and maltreated detainees have emerged from a third Iraqi city, renewing fears that abuse similar to that inflicted in Abu Ghraib jail in Baghdad Continue Reading

From James Carroll The Unwinnable War War is an abstraction in the American imagination. It lives there, cloaked in glory, as an emblem of patriotism. We show our love for our country by sending our troops abroad and then “supporting” them, no matter what. When images appear that contradict the high-flown rhetoric of war — whether of young GIs disgracefully Continue Reading

Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall: September 12, 2004 – September 18, 2004 Archives Hmmm. That’s an interesting twist. The former secretary for the Texas Air National Guard colonel who supposedly authored memos critical of President Bush’s Guard service said Tuesday that the documents are fake, but that they reflect real documents that once existed. The lede of a Continue Reading

USATODAY.com – Memos debate eclipses content Document analysts differ over whether the memos, ostensibly written by Bush’s commander, Lt. Col. Jerry Killian, are genuine and could have been produced by typewriters available at Ellington Air Force Base in Houston in 1972 and 1973. Two retired FBI forensic document examiners who studied the memos at USA TODAY’s request said Sunday that Continue Reading

Known for its “right -leaning”, the Report recognmizes the dreliction of duty even under the most lenient of standards (that of the White House): USNews.com: A review of President Bush’s National Guard years raises issues about the time he served (9/20/04) White House officials say, Bush should be judged on whether he attended enough drills to count toward retirement. They Continue Reading

This CBS thing has gotten ugly. ABC news just ran a report where a couple of people who checked the documents for CBS expressed concerns. Another report also said that a former secretary of Killian said that she believed the documents to be fake, but that they also reflected the thinking that Killian expressed at the time about Bush (ie. Continue Reading

That’s a line from the scene on the front steps from the movie , Silver City, whcih I can’t wait to see. Of course, it might just depress me too. This NYTimes article echoes the sentiment of just about any environmentally conscious person in this country:

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