Bin Laden tape - selectively released. Missing paragraph:
This similarity was striking with Bush the Elder when he visited in the area. At the same time, some of our people (the Saudis) were fascinated by the USA and were hoping that his visit to our countries might influence us; however Bush instead became influenced by these people and their regimes, and he started to envy them, as they sit there for many decades in their positions and are stealing their country's money with any kind of audits or control. After that, he took up the same method of repression and restricting freedoms which under the guise of the Patriot Act, under the cover of the War on Terror.
Bush the Elder liked the idea that his sons would take over power from the father. He has also not forgotten the tactics of his own skills at voter cheating, like in Florida, so he could use them in an emergency
71. This tape is not addressed to his followers, but to us
he is using western language (wasn't he educated in England?)
he wants to influence the election, he wants to maintain the status quo that serves him. he is smart enough not to make a direct statement on this, but instead adopts a "spoiler" stance (see "Nader" for details)
The hope here is to keep people from voting.
I cannot say if the BFEE/Bin Ladin entreprise (Carlyle) was directly involved in soliciting his services or this was an OBL initiative. He is enough of a megalomaniac to want the feeling that he decides this country;s future - but not dumb enough to risk helping along a regime change to a more competent leader.
So, while the planning may have not existed, he did make BFEE a gift (again) and it was received as such - see what W's operative boast:
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/247753p-212149c ....
See tape as boost for Prez
We want people to think 'terrorism' for the last four days," said a Bush-Cheney campaign official. "And anything that raises the issue in people's minds is good for us."
A senior GOP strategist added, "anything that makes people nervous about their personal safety helps Bush."
He called it "a little gift," saying it helps the President but doesn't guarantee his reelection.
Sunday, October 31, 2004
Friday, October 22, 2004
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/102304W.shtml
It is, instead, an election about the presidency of George W. Bush. To the surprise of virtually everyone, Bush has turned into an important president, and in many ways the most radical America has had since the 19th century. Because he is the leader of America’s conservative party, he has become the Left’s perfect foil - its dream candidate. The libertarian writer Lew Rockwell has mischievously noted parallels between Bush and Russia’s last tsar, Nicholas II: both gained office as a result of family connections, both initiated an unnecessary war that shattered their countries’ budgets. Lenin needed the calamitous reign of Nicholas II to create an opening for the Bolsheviks.
It is, instead, an election about the presidency of George W. Bush. To the surprise of virtually everyone, Bush has turned into an important president, and in many ways the most radical America has had since the 19th century. Because he is the leader of America’s conservative party, he has become the Left’s perfect foil - its dream candidate. The libertarian writer Lew Rockwell has mischievously noted parallels between Bush and Russia’s last tsar, Nicholas II: both gained office as a result of family connections, both initiated an unnecessary war that shattered their countries’ budgets. Lenin needed the calamitous reign of Nicholas II to create an opening for the Bolsheviks.
Krugman: don't be magnanimous!
http://www.mollyivins.com/showArticle.asp?ArticleID=177...
TO: The day after the election, what’s the column if Kerry wins?
PK: Do not be magnanimous in victory. I hope the people around him understand that this is not politics as we know it. It’s not, “OK, well, we won an election. After the election we’ll get together and work in a bipartisan way to help the country.” They didn’t work in a bipartisan way when the United States was attacked. They immediately saw it as a way to achieve political dominance. Kerry has got to understand that he has a window of opportunity to expose what’s going on and to rock these people back to the point where we can try to reclaim the normal workings of democracy. Unless there’s a true miracle and the Democrats take the House—which is extremely unlikely—it’s going to be very bitter political civil war from Day One. The House leadership will try to undermine Kerry. I’m sure they’ll try to impeach him almost immediately. On anything.
We can go on and on about Tom DeLay, but the point is Tom DeLay is not an aberrant thing. He’s not an accident. The whole thrust of where we’ve been going for a couple of decades in this country has been towards putting someone like Tom DeLay in a position of great power. So, my column to Kerry, my open letter to him if he wins, will be: Do not be magnanimous. You need to expose and dismantle this machine...."
http://www.mollyivins.com/showArticle.asp?ArticleID=177...
TO: The day after the election, what’s the column if Kerry wins?
PK: Do not be magnanimous in victory. I hope the people around him understand that this is not politics as we know it. It’s not, “OK, well, we won an election. After the election we’ll get together and work in a bipartisan way to help the country.” They didn’t work in a bipartisan way when the United States was attacked. They immediately saw it as a way to achieve political dominance. Kerry has got to understand that he has a window of opportunity to expose what’s going on and to rock these people back to the point where we can try to reclaim the normal workings of democracy. Unless there’s a true miracle and the Democrats take the House—which is extremely unlikely—it’s going to be very bitter political civil war from Day One. The House leadership will try to undermine Kerry. I’m sure they’ll try to impeach him almost immediately. On anything.
We can go on and on about Tom DeLay, but the point is Tom DeLay is not an aberrant thing. He’s not an accident. The whole thrust of where we’ve been going for a couple of decades in this country has been towards putting someone like Tom DeLay in a position of great power. So, my column to Kerry, my open letter to him if he wins, will be: Do not be magnanimous. You need to expose and dismantle this machine...."
Monday, October 18, 2004
on DU:
montana500 (230 posts) Mon Oct-18-04 07:02 PM
Original message
Dick Morris on Faux: Bush is in trouble. Only one way he can win.
Suggests October surprise is Bush's only chance
MORRIS: “I think there’s gonna be a huge turnout. All the voter registration figures are up, the polling indicates.”
O’REILLY: “Who does that favor?”
MORRIS: “It probably favors Kerry. And I do believe he’ll get a very strong, very intense minority vote. There’s only one thing that can save George Bush. Think about how we felt in August. Think about how jeopardized and endangered we felt with photos of the stock exchange and IMF building circulating. The Al Qaeda militants, bombs possibly at the two conventions, the Olympics. We felt really in danger. Now we feel fat and happy. We’re felling pretty good. We turn on the TV set about Iraq. We watch it with half an eye, but nobody really thinks there’s gonna be anything happening here. If that’s the environment on November 2nd, Kerry’s gonna win. But, if - and I’m not suggesting Bush would fabricate it - - but if, in fact, Al Qaeda chooses to begin actions, to threaten stuff, to do stuff here, which they did in Israel and they did in Madrid right before the election, then I think that could elect Bush...Osama bin Laden will determine if Bush wins or not.”
Follow-up:
Morris just finished an appearance on “Big Story with John Gibson” (10/15/04, 5:03 PM EDT) in which he said essentially the same things, only this time he was very careful NOT to use the words “and I’m not suggesting Bush would fabricate it.”
http://www.newshounds.us/2004/10/15/dick_m...to_win.php...
montana500 (230 posts) Mon Oct-18-04 07:02 PM
Original message
Dick Morris on Faux: Bush is in trouble. Only one way he can win.
Suggests October surprise is Bush's only chance
MORRIS: “I think there’s gonna be a huge turnout. All the voter registration figures are up, the polling indicates.”
O’REILLY: “Who does that favor?”
MORRIS: “It probably favors Kerry. And I do believe he’ll get a very strong, very intense minority vote. There’s only one thing that can save George Bush. Think about how we felt in August. Think about how jeopardized and endangered we felt with photos of the stock exchange and IMF building circulating. The Al Qaeda militants, bombs possibly at the two conventions, the Olympics. We felt really in danger. Now we feel fat and happy. We’re felling pretty good. We turn on the TV set about Iraq. We watch it with half an eye, but nobody really thinks there’s gonna be anything happening here. If that’s the environment on November 2nd, Kerry’s gonna win. But, if - and I’m not suggesting Bush would fabricate it - - but if, in fact, Al Qaeda chooses to begin actions, to threaten stuff, to do stuff here, which they did in Israel and they did in Madrid right before the election, then I think that could elect Bush...Osama bin Laden will determine if Bush wins or not.”
Follow-up:
Morris just finished an appearance on “Big Story with John Gibson” (10/15/04, 5:03 PM EDT) in which he said essentially the same things, only this time he was very careful NOT to use the words “and I’m not suggesting Bush would fabricate it.”
http://www.newshounds.us/2004/10/15/dick_m...to_win.php...
[b]CREATING REALITY[/b]
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/17/magazine/17BUSH.html?oref=login&oref=login&oref=login&pagewanted=all&position
"In the summer of 2002, after I had written an article in Esquire that the White House didn't like about Bush's former communications director, Karen Hughes, I had a meeting with a senior adviser to Bush. He expressed the White House's displeasure, and then he told me something that at the time I didn't fully comprehend -- but which I now believe gets to the very heart of the Bush presidency.
The aide said that guys like me were 'in what we call the reality-based community,' which he defined as people who 'believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.' I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. 'That's not the way the world really works anymore,' he continued. 'We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.'
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/17/magazine/17BUSH.html?oref=login&oref=login&oref=login&pagewanted=all&position
"In the summer of 2002, after I had written an article in Esquire that the White House didn't like about Bush's former communications director, Karen Hughes, I had a meeting with a senior adviser to Bush. He expressed the White House's displeasure, and then he told me something that at the time I didn't fully comprehend -- but which I now believe gets to the very heart of the Bush presidency.
The aide said that guys like me were 'in what we call the reality-based community,' which he defined as people who 'believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.' I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. 'That's not the way the world really works anymore,' he continued. 'We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.'
Sunday, October 17, 2004
Warning: W will use new language
Aides had alerted reporters to expect "new language" in Bush's routine rejection of Democratic rival John Kerry (news - web sites)'s warnings that the Iraq (news - web sites) war has so strained the US armed forces that compulsory military service may be around the corner.
"Our all-volunteer army will remain an all-volunteer army," Bush began, to cheers from supporters here in Florida, the richest prize among the dozen or so states up for grabs in the November 2 election.
"My opponent seems to be willing to say almost anything he thinks will benefit him politically," he said. "After standing on the stage, after the debates, [b]I made it very plain we will not have an all-volunteer army."[/b] "And yet this week..." he continued, before suddenly realizing the gaffe and shouting: "We will have an all-volunteer army."
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1506&u=/afp/2...
Aides had alerted reporters to expect "new language" in Bush's routine rejection of Democratic rival John Kerry (news - web sites)'s warnings that the Iraq (news - web sites) war has so strained the US armed forces that compulsory military service may be around the corner.
"Our all-volunteer army will remain an all-volunteer army," Bush began, to cheers from supporters here in Florida, the richest prize among the dozen or so states up for grabs in the November 2 election.
"My opponent seems to be willing to say almost anything he thinks will benefit him politically," he said. "After standing on the stage, after the debates, [b]I made it very plain we will not have an all-volunteer army."[/b] "And yet this week..." he continued, before suddenly realizing the gaffe and shouting: "We will have an all-volunteer army."
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1506&u=/afp/2...
On Bartcop forum:
"Times has (temporary) deathbed conversion"
Author samela
is is a very powerful editorial, notable less for its "enthusiastic" endorsement of Kerry, for which I am grateful, than for the bulk of its content---a searing indictment of the Bush administration, spelled out in detail and step by step, on every domestic and foreign policy outrage. It should be required reading.
But I am struck by how the normally vapid Sunday Times is today filled with other must-read articles as well. To wit:
(1) Frank Rich's sizzling rant on how the Bush administration is "knee-capping" the media. (Read beyond the somewhat suspect protestations over Judith Miller's fate. It really is a chilling, and telling, piece, even if it is from the guy who found Al Gore too wooden).
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/14/arts/17rich.html
(2) An expose of human rights abuses in Guantanamo. The shocking techniques described herein are truly a day late and a dollar short. We already read the report of allegations by two British prisoners who were released--and their stories conform entirely with the new allegations being lodged by unnamed US personnel who are now speaking out. It's important. Read it, too.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/17/politics/17gitmo.html?hp&ex=1098072000&en=e29ccfe1afd6371a&ei=5094&partner=homepage
(3) The real story about why there are no flu vaccines this year---because Big Pharma doesn't find vaccine making profitable, and because they don't want to spend the money to make them safely, as required by Clinton-era reforms. They don't take Bush to task for lying about the reasons in the debate the other night, but it effectively serves as an indictment of this administration for having done nothing on this front. It ends with a direct slam on them for allocating nothing to a "real" disease that kills tens of thousands each year while dumping $5.8 Billion on drug companies to develop anthrax vaccines, a disease no one has. Read it.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/17/health/17flu2.html?hp&ex=1098072000&en=d2dfea7c2bb70b63&ei=5094&partner=homepage
"Times has (temporary) deathbed conversion"
Author samela
is is a very powerful editorial, notable less for its "enthusiastic" endorsement of Kerry, for which I am grateful, than for the bulk of its content---a searing indictment of the Bush administration, spelled out in detail and step by step, on every domestic and foreign policy outrage. It should be required reading.
But I am struck by how the normally vapid Sunday Times is today filled with other must-read articles as well. To wit:
(1) Frank Rich's sizzling rant on how the Bush administration is "knee-capping" the media. (Read beyond the somewhat suspect protestations over Judith Miller's fate. It really is a chilling, and telling, piece, even if it is from the guy who found Al Gore too wooden).
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/14/arts/17rich.html
(2) An expose of human rights abuses in Guantanamo. The shocking techniques described herein are truly a day late and a dollar short. We already read the report of allegations by two British prisoners who were released--and their stories conform entirely with the new allegations being lodged by unnamed US personnel who are now speaking out. It's important. Read it, too.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/17/politics/17gitmo.html?hp&ex=1098072000&en=e29ccfe1afd6371a&ei=5094&partner=homepage
(3) The real story about why there are no flu vaccines this year---because Big Pharma doesn't find vaccine making profitable, and because they don't want to spend the money to make them safely, as required by Clinton-era reforms. They don't take Bush to task for lying about the reasons in the debate the other night, but it effectively serves as an indictment of this administration for having done nothing on this front. It ends with a direct slam on them for allocating nothing to a "real" disease that kills tens of thousands each year while dumping $5.8 Billion on drug companies to develop anthrax vaccines, a disease no one has. Read it.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/17/health/17flu2.html?hp&ex=1098072000&en=d2dfea7c2bb70b63&ei=5094&partner=homepage
Saturday, October 16, 2004
Digby: Jon Stewart's show is mocking THE MEDIA, not politics
Dumboys
I don't know how many of you are watching Crossfire, but Jon Stewart is on and he's making both Tuckie and Paul a tad uncomfortable.
They seem to be unaware that The Daily Show is a parody of the news and that its mission is to make fun of them. And that's because they are so insular and self-referential that they have no idea how the country really sees them.
They don't like it. Especially the Tuckster who is plainly wants to scratch his eyes out.
Stewart is trying to make the point that they are contributing to the dumbing down of the discourse by presenting this fake news, or political theatre, that they pretend is news. He isn't being funny and he isn't doing the usual celebrity circle jerk and they are finding it very discomfiting.
Good.
Dumboys
I don't know how many of you are watching Crossfire, but Jon Stewart is on and he's making both Tuckie and Paul a tad uncomfortable.
They seem to be unaware that The Daily Show is a parody of the news and that its mission is to make fun of them. And that's because they are so insular and self-referential that they have no idea how the country really sees them.
They don't like it. Especially the Tuckster who is plainly wants to scratch his eyes out.
Stewart is trying to make the point that they are contributing to the dumbing down of the discourse by presenting this fake news, or political theatre, that they pretend is news. He isn't being funny and he isn't doing the usual celebrity circle jerk and they are finding it very discomfiting.
Good.
Freeper woman lawyer writes Derbyshire (National review)
RE: MY BOY BILL
The following got my attention.
"Derb---I am a lawyer in . My practice is entirely employment law, representing management (i.e., defendants). I do a lot of sexual harassment claims -- companies like being represented by a woman attorney, looks better.
"I read through the huge and detailed complaint. I also have some doubts -- if it was all that bad, WHY would she keep going out to dinner with him, go back to work for him, etc. But the quotes in the complaint bother me, because it suggests they were taped. And the allegations are really bad. This isn't just a guy at work being obnoxious, it is someone in a position of power over an employee, and that is what makes it particularly bad. No one should have to tolerate the things in the complaint in relation to their job (unless it is consensual, of course -- that's a different issue).
"All that being said, I come back to something that I have learned over 12 years of practice in this area -- the more outrageous the allegations, the more likely they are to be true. People don't make up outrageous stuff, they make up (or exaggerate) mild stuff. That's a generalization, of course, and certainly an individual could make up outrageous stuff -- particularly if there is a partisan reason, and there are lots of reasons to think this is partisan, the timing of it in particular. But in the back of my mind, I'm not liking this...."
Posted at 10:24 AM
http://www.nationalreview.com/thecorner/corner.asp
RE: MY BOY BILL
The following got my attention.
"Derb---I am a lawyer in . My practice is entirely employment law, representing management (i.e., defendants). I do a lot of sexual harassment claims -- companies like being represented by a woman attorney, looks better.
"I read through the huge and detailed complaint. I also have some doubts -- if it was all that bad, WHY would she keep going out to dinner with him, go back to work for him, etc. But the quotes in the complaint bother me, because it suggests they were taped. And the allegations are really bad. This isn't just a guy at work being obnoxious, it is someone in a position of power over an employee, and that is what makes it particularly bad. No one should have to tolerate the things in the complaint in relation to their job (unless it is consensual, of course -- that's a different issue).
"All that being said, I come back to something that I have learned over 12 years of practice in this area -- the more outrageous the allegations, the more likely they are to be true. People don't make up outrageous stuff, they make up (or exaggerate) mild stuff. That's a generalization, of course, and certainly an individual could make up outrageous stuff -- particularly if there is a partisan reason, and there are lots of reasons to think this is partisan, the timing of it in particular. But in the back of my mind, I'm not liking this...."
Posted at 10:24 AM
http://www.nationalreview.com/thecorner/corner.asp
Friday, October 15, 2004
Jon Stewart on Crossfire:
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0410/15/cf.01.ht...
In many ways, it's funny. And I made a special effort to come on the
show today, because I have privately, amongst my friends and also in
occasional newspapers and television shows, mentioned this show as
being bad.
(LAUGHTER)
BEGALA: We have noticed.
STEWART: And I wanted to -- I felt that that wasn't fair and I should
come here and tell you that I don't -- it's not so much that it's bad,
as it's hurting America.
(LAUGHTER)
CARLSON: But in its defense...
(CROSSTALK)
STEWART: So I wanted to come here today and say...
(CROSSTALK)
STEWART: Here's just what I wanted to tell you guys.
CARLSON: Yes.
STEWART: Stop.
(LAUGHTER)
STEWART: Stop, stop, stop, stop hurting America.
BEGALA: OK. Now
(CROSSTALK)
STEWART: And come work for us, because we, as the people...
CARLSON: How do you pay?
STEWART: The people -- not well.
(LAUGHTER)
BEGALA: Better than CNN, I'm sure.
STEWART: But you can sleep at night.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0410/15/cf.01.ht...
In many ways, it's funny. And I made a special effort to come on the
show today, because I have privately, amongst my friends and also in
occasional newspapers and television shows, mentioned this show as
being bad.
(LAUGHTER)
BEGALA: We have noticed.
STEWART: And I wanted to -- I felt that that wasn't fair and I should
come here and tell you that I don't -- it's not so much that it's bad,
as it's hurting America.
(LAUGHTER)
CARLSON: But in its defense...
(CROSSTALK)
STEWART: So I wanted to come here today and say...
(CROSSTALK)
STEWART: Here's just what I wanted to tell you guys.
CARLSON: Yes.
STEWART: Stop.
(LAUGHTER)
STEWART: Stop, stop, stop, stop hurting America.
BEGALA: OK. Now
(CROSSTALK)
STEWART: And come work for us, because we, as the people...
CARLSON: How do you pay?
STEWART: The people -- not well.
(LAUGHTER)
BEGALA: Better than CNN, I'm sure.
STEWART: But you can sleep at night.
caledoni (416 posts) Fri Oct-15-04 12:25 PM
Response to Original message
45. Zogby Gallups
I've been registered with Zogby for a long time. Rarely did they poll me. Then I tried somehting. I said I voted for der kleine fuhrer in 2000 (though giving him the lowest of marks.) Now I'm polled all the time.
Response to Original message
45. Zogby Gallups
I've been registered with Zogby for a long time. Rarely did they poll me. Then I tried somehting. I said I voted for der kleine fuhrer in 2000 (though giving him the lowest of marks.) Now I'm polled all the time.
Platoon defies orders in Iraq
A 17-member Army Reserve platoon with troops from Jackson and around the Southeast deployed to Iraq is under arrest for refusing a "suicide mission" to deliver fuel, the troops' relatives said Thursday.
The soldiers refused an order on Wednesday to go to Taji, Iraq — north of Baghdad — because their vehicles were considered "deadlined" or extremely unsafe, said Patricia McCook of Jackson, wife of Sgt. Larry O. McCook.
http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=...
A 17-member Army Reserve platoon with troops from Jackson and around the Southeast deployed to Iraq is under arrest for refusing a "suicide mission" to deliver fuel, the troops' relatives said Thursday.
The soldiers refused an order on Wednesday to go to Taji, Iraq — north of Baghdad — because their vehicles were considered "deadlined" or extremely unsafe, said Patricia McCook of Jackson, wife of Sgt. Larry O. McCook.
http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=...
Thursday, October 14, 2004
Debate comments on Atrios:
2) My mother was a delusional paranoid...that fixed, forced smile and those vacant eyes looked all to familiar to me...the man was creeping me out more than usual.
Anti Meme
Anyone notice that his answer to everything was education?
Outsourcing? education
tax relief? education
domestic security? education
illegal immigrants? education with a temp work card.
Ed
------------------------------------------------------------------------
I don't get it. The question regards minimum wage. Kerry gives a detailed policy position answer. Bush talks about "Mitch McConnell's plan" for five seconds, the flips over to education. A total flop. Not one media pundit has mentioned it.
Media sucks ass cause they're a bunch of whores. What's not to get?
fourlegsgood
That foaming was just some coke residue. That's how they got him to smile.
de Sade
Did anyone notice how Bush basically said that all the black and hispanic people in the country are poor?
Don't you worry about that. We'll send those darkies to community college and have them reading, writing, adding, and subtracting in no time. Laziness can be cured.
MillionthMonkey
------------------------------------------------------------------------
CNN poll - who won
Kerry 52
Bush 39
Larry King just announced.
Schneider: "just about as decisive a win for Kerry as in the first debate."
AWESOME
Gee |
Does anyone else find it ironic Bush is okay with purchasing flu vaccine manufactured in Canada but not okay with our simply buying pre packaged drugs actually manufactued here? Geez.
Mrs French
telltakeheart:
I don't hold a grudge - I would hire him as my pool boy
TelltakeHeart.
He'll drink every beer in the fridge and piss it out in your pool, but I admire your forgiving nature.
stencil
Bob Kerrey told Brokaw that George Bush senior was more responsible for the balanced budgets in the 90's than Clinton. This is who was offered as balance to Guilliani.
Anonymous
CBS "Undecideds" polled after the Debate:
Who won?
KERRY 39%
Bush 25%
Tie 36%
Bush actually went into Negative numbers while babbling on about lost jobs
Keery, on "does he offer specific plan,
Before debate 35%
After Debate 60%!!!!
thought
Everyone from the Bushie camp looks like their dog died.
They're wrong.
It was their chimp.
fourlegsgood
Bush''s Prescription Drug Program:
Debate 1: Ny-Quil
Debate 2: Cocaine
Debate 3: Prozac
HeavyJ
O'Lielly and Bush, bitchslapped, both on the same day, did I die and go to Heaven?
Ind4ke
Tomorrow on Fox and Friends : "Why Drool is Cool!"
David Ehrenstein
2) My mother was a delusional paranoid...that fixed, forced smile and those vacant eyes looked all to familiar to me...the man was creeping me out more than usual.
Anti Meme
Anyone notice that his answer to everything was education?
Outsourcing? education
tax relief? education
domestic security? education
illegal immigrants? education with a temp work card.
Ed
------------------------------------------------------------------------
I don't get it. The question regards minimum wage. Kerry gives a detailed policy position answer. Bush talks about "Mitch McConnell's plan" for five seconds, the flips over to education. A total flop. Not one media pundit has mentioned it.
Media sucks ass cause they're a bunch of whores. What's not to get?
fourlegsgood
That foaming was just some coke residue. That's how they got him to smile.
de Sade
Did anyone notice how Bush basically said that all the black and hispanic people in the country are poor?
Don't you worry about that. We'll send those darkies to community college and have them reading, writing, adding, and subtracting in no time. Laziness can be cured.
MillionthMonkey
------------------------------------------------------------------------
CNN poll - who won
Kerry 52
Bush 39
Larry King just announced.
Schneider: "just about as decisive a win for Kerry as in the first debate."
AWESOME
Gee |
Does anyone else find it ironic Bush is okay with purchasing flu vaccine manufactured in Canada but not okay with our simply buying pre packaged drugs actually manufactued here? Geez.
Mrs French
telltakeheart:
I don't hold a grudge - I would hire him as my pool boy
TelltakeHeart.
He'll drink every beer in the fridge and piss it out in your pool, but I admire your forgiving nature.
stencil
Bob Kerrey told Brokaw that George Bush senior was more responsible for the balanced budgets in the 90's than Clinton. This is who was offered as balance to Guilliani.
Anonymous
CBS "Undecideds" polled after the Debate:
Who won?
KERRY 39%
Bush 25%
Tie 36%
Bush actually went into Negative numbers while babbling on about lost jobs
Keery, on "does he offer specific plan,
Before debate 35%
After Debate 60%!!!!
thought
Everyone from the Bushie camp looks like their dog died.
They're wrong.
It was their chimp.
fourlegsgood
Bush''s Prescription Drug Program:
Debate 1: Ny-Quil
Debate 2: Cocaine
Debate 3: Prozac
HeavyJ
O'Lielly and Bush, bitchslapped, both on the same day, did I die and go to Heaven?
Ind4ke
Tomorrow on Fox and Friends : "Why Drool is Cool!"
David Ehrenstein
Wednesday, October 13, 2004
O"really fantasies:
"If you cross FOX NEWS Channel, it's not just me, it's Roger Alies who will go after you. I'm the street guy make loud noises about the issues, but Alies operates behind the scenes, strategies and makes things happen so one day BAM! That person gets what's coming to them but never sees it coming. Look at Al Franken, one day he is going to get a knock on his door and life as he's known it will change forever. That day will happen trust me."
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/1013043mackris12.html
"If you cross FOX NEWS Channel, it's not just me, it's Roger Alies who will go after you. I'm the street guy make loud noises about the issues, but Alies operates behind the scenes, strategies and makes things happen so one day BAM! That person gets what's coming to them but never sees it coming. Look at Al Franken, one day he is going to get a knock on his door and life as he's known it will change forever. That day will happen trust me."
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/1013043mackris12.html
Ron Suskind:
A very funny scene early in Richard Ben Cramer’s book about the 1988 Presidential campaign, “What It Takes,” shows Bush blowing his stack when he sees his father’s White House chief of staff, Craig Fuller, sitting in what he regards as a family seat at a baseball game, and, without a second’s thought, loudly complaining about Fuller’s presumptuousness. That kind of assurance shows a deep sense of comfort with being in the superior position, but not necessarily a deep sense of self-confidence.
And, in trying to figure out his position on an issue, Bush, like a lot of other politicians, doesn’t so much analyze as look for a hook—a phrase or a way of framing the issue that feels instinctively right to him. In his case, instinct usually takes him to a position where he is in charge and everyone else has to adjust.
http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/
A very funny scene early in Richard Ben Cramer’s book about the 1988 Presidential campaign, “What It Takes,” shows Bush blowing his stack when he sees his father’s White House chief of staff, Craig Fuller, sitting in what he regards as a family seat at a baseball game, and, without a second’s thought, loudly complaining about Fuller’s presumptuousness. That kind of assurance shows a deep sense of comfort with being in the superior position, but not necessarily a deep sense of self-confidence.
And, in trying to figure out his position on an issue, Bush, like a lot of other politicians, doesn’t so much analyze as look for a hook—a phrase or a way of framing the issue that feels instinctively right to him. In his case, instinct usually takes him to a position where he is in charge and everyone else has to adjust.
http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/
Monday, October 11, 2004
James Wolcott on the 2nd debate:
Empty Volcano
Posted by James Wolcott
http://www.jameswolcott.com/
For much of last night's debate George Bush looked like a blister about to pop. Loud, mouthy, swaggering, interested only in hearing himself lay down the law, he behaved like a verbally abusive husband. Not a wifebeater but a browbeater with a bar-fighter's grin. It is astonishing and sobering that this dull roar with a one-track mind that runs on tank treads is fighting for reelection instead of facing impeachment; his lies and failures have fed thousands of graves, and filled thousands more hospital beds with bodies and psyches that will never be whole again. And still our mainstream pundits can not, will not see him for what he is. He cracks a corny joke, and they marvel at his Reaganesque humor. He hollers at Charlie Gibson, and he's hailed as a take-charge guy.
Fortunately, the cable-news spinmeisters seem to matter less and less in the framing of the debate reaction--they've insulted the viewers' sense of reality too many times.
it was Kerry who was persuasively presidential last night, a perception that may widen over the coming days as the footage of Bush hollering like a hogcaller are replayed to a cringing nation.
Empty Volcano
Posted by James Wolcott
http://www.jameswolcott.com/
For much of last night's debate George Bush looked like a blister about to pop. Loud, mouthy, swaggering, interested only in hearing himself lay down the law, he behaved like a verbally abusive husband. Not a wifebeater but a browbeater with a bar-fighter's grin. It is astonishing and sobering that this dull roar with a one-track mind that runs on tank treads is fighting for reelection instead of facing impeachment; his lies and failures have fed thousands of graves, and filled thousands more hospital beds with bodies and psyches that will never be whole again. And still our mainstream pundits can not, will not see him for what he is. He cracks a corny joke, and they marvel at his Reaganesque humor. He hollers at Charlie Gibson, and he's hailed as a take-charge guy.
Fortunately, the cable-news spinmeisters seem to matter less and less in the framing of the debate reaction--they've insulted the viewers' sense of reality too many times.
it was Kerry who was persuasively presidential last night, a perception that may widen over the coming days as the footage of Bush hollering like a hogcaller are replayed to a cringing nation.
Saturday, October 09, 2004
Friday, October 08, 2004
Fineman turns on W - "sounds desperate"
Many observers have said the Bush team was too smart by half in insisting that the first debate be about foreign policy and defense — that is, Iraq. I am told that this wasn't done out of arrogance or ignorance; it was done that way in part to leave them plenty of time to repair any damage if Bush screwed up.
Many observers have said the Bush team was too smart by half in insisting that the first debate be about foreign policy and defense — that is, Iraq. I am told that this wasn't done out of arrogance or ignorance; it was done that way in part to leave them plenty of time to repair any damage if Bush screwed up.
Thursday, October 07, 2004
Betty Bowers on Cheney's BS:
So, I was pleased to hear Mr. Cheney announce last night that the newest, if not most willing, members of America's exclusive coalition, if only for the convenience of already being there, are the Iraqis themselves. I guess instead of leveling with foreign countries to win allies, we are simply going to level foreign countries.
So, I was pleased to hear Mr. Cheney announce last night that the newest, if not most willing, members of America's exclusive coalition, if only for the convenience of already being there, are the Iraqis themselves. I guess instead of leveling with foreign countries to win allies, we are simply going to level foreign countries.
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