This can’t be good news for Bush supporters. Bush’s bounce notwithstanding, the electoral college map still favors Kerry 307-231. Now, granted — that Kerry lead is ever so slight and the usual caveats about polls and margins of error (expressed in the WSJ link, so I won’t repeat them here) apply.
The Alcoholic Stoned Presidency
Digby is asking some pretty blunt questions about Bush’s drinking and cocaine problem. Like . . . why is Bush, who supposedly kicked his alcohol problem in the 1980’s, drinking a beer here at the G-8 Summit? (Yes, it’s his glass. Count the participants and match them with the booze). And why was Bush so drunk here (Quicktime video) in … Read More
Not a Satire
The Texans For Truth group as a new ad out . . . . Speaking of video, check out this news footage of the skirmish at the RNC, showing a Republican kicking a female protester when she was on the ground . . . and then lying about it to a reporter. By the way, notice that that "oh, shit" … Read More
Bush’s Missing Records
The Associated Press has conducted an analysis of Bush’s "military" records and identified "five categories of records that should have been generated after Bush skipped his pilot’s physical and missed five months of training." For example, Air National Guard regulations at the time required commanders to write an investigative report for the Air Force when Bush missed his annual medical … Read More
Never Mistake A Mirror For A Window
Via Kevin Drum, we hear from William Arkin, a military analyst with the L.A. Times, who opines about the military blunders of the Bush Adminstration. One of them, one still not learned, is: Never mistake a mirror for a window. With dismaying frequency, Bush, Rumsfeld and senior military leaders have made critical decisions on the basis of what they thought … Read More
February 19, 2002 and the Bush Cover-up
(1) February 19, 2002 Rewind to that date. This was only 5 months after 9/11/01. The United States had barely begun its invasion of Afghanistan. This was loooong before the Bush White House starting rolling out (and marketing) its new "product" — the Iraq War. According to Bob Graham, he ran into a very dejected General Tommy Franks on that … Read More
Swift Boat War Criminals
Are the Swiftees pissed at Kerry because he supposedly lied in his Senate testimony, or are they pissed because he told the TRUTH (thus breaking the unspoken code of slience among brothers-in-arms)? Well, it seems that at least ONE of the Swiftees — actually, one of the group’s organizers — had no problem ordering the execution of Vietnamese civilians. Means, … Read More
Shhweet Home Abalama . . .
Never mind the fact the Dubya may or may not have actually attended training at the Alabama National Guard. Let’s look at why he was in Alabama in the first place, and what he did while there. Here‘s a pretty revoltin’ development. Check out what George "Some may not like my stagger; in Texas, we call it walking" Bush was … Read More
News Alert . . .
Clinton Has Heart Attack: Mean-spirited Republicans rejoice: No doubt his arteries are clogged up with pounds of MacDonalds hamburgers and pizzas. I at least hope he lives long enough to see JFK AND Hildabeast go down in flames. Then he can go down in flames, metaphorically speaking. I hope his big honkin’ bible is printed on asbestos so he can … Read More
Random Thoughts About the RNC
Let’s get a few preliminary obvious things out of the way first. The Republican National Convention wasn’t geared to people like me, and not being a Republican or a conservative, I’m not supposed to "get it". That said, here are some random chicken-scratchings, for what it is worth: (1) I find it very telling that McCain and Giuliani were placed … Read More
Blogging Jumps The Shark
I’m not the first to say it, but it bears re-stating — blogging has officially jumped the shark. The moment when the shark got hisself all jumped: 10:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, last night. That’s the moment when Larry King first blogged. Ugh! And this is what he blogged: Posted: 10:00 p.m. ET From Larry King, host, "Larry King Live" … Read More
How’s Democracy Doing in Afghanistan?
REALLY GOOD! Here’s what Bush said on Rush today: I just would remind your listeners that Pakistan is now an ally in the war on terror [Except for its government workers and scientists – Kman]. Saudi now takes Al-Qaeda seriously, and they’re after the leadership. Libya is no longer got weapons of mass destruction [They’ve given away the designs to … Read More
A Day I’ll Never Forget
On September the 14th, 2001, I stood in the ruins of the Twin Towers. I’ll never forget the day. A fellow pointed at me and said, "Do not let me down." Workers in hard-hats, and police and firefighters were shouting, "Whatever it takes. Whatever it takes." – May 7, 2004 On September the 14th, 2001, I stood in the ruins … Read More
Why They Don’t Like To Let Bush Talk
George Bush on the Swift Boat ads: “I can understand why Senator Kerry is upset with us. I wasn’t so pleased with the ads that were run about me. And my call is get rid of them all, now.” Upset with “us“? I thought y’all had nothing to do with those ads, George. Total credit for this catch goes to … Read More
We Can’t Win the War On Terror
Several months ago, and I can’t seem to locate where, I made the point that we can’t actually WIN a war on terror, since "terror" is a tactic and not an enemy. Which is why, I added, that it is wrong to claim that it IS a "war". It seems Kerry agrees with me: When asked whether we can "win" … Read More