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Don't Vote For Bush - He's a Cowardly Pussy

The New York Times > Washington > Campaign 2004 > The Debates: Panel Won't Sign Agreement but Will Enforce Stipulations

Still, officials of the debate commission said they were agreeing primarily to those things Mr. Bush's aides had emphasized as especially important to them: a strict time limit on candidate responses, an electronic warning when candidates exceed their speaking time that can be seen and heard by viewers at home, and a prohibition against the candidates' directly posing questions to each other.

Tell All Your Red State Pals They're Welfare Queens (And Don't Vote for Bush, His Supporters Are Sucking Us Dry)

TaxProf Blog: Red States Feed at Federal Trough, Blue States Supply the Feed

Red States Feed at Federal Trough, Blue States Supply the Feed

"Bush Is In A Nixonian Bubble..."

The Washington Monthly

And Thursday's press conference was just scary. It's no longer clear if George Bush is merely a cynical, calculating politician — which would be bad enough — or if he actually believes all the happy talk about Iraq that his speechwriters produce for him. Increasingly, though, it seems like the latter: he genuinely doesn't have a clue about what's going on. What's more, his staff is keeping him in a sort of Nixonian bubble, afraid to tell him the truth and afraid to take any positive action for fear that it might affect the election.

Don't Vote For Bush - His Iraq War Strategy is EXCLUSIVELY About the US Election

The Washington Monthly

So now we're on Plan D, a feebly disguised version of Plan C: the elections will proceed as scheduled and that will fix everything. It's unlikely that anyone below the level of cabinet secretary actually believes this, but it's impossible to say so because there's an election coming up. An American election, that is.

That election, and the political considerations that go along with it, have been driving our military strategy for the past two years. Before the war, we passed up a chance to take out terrorist mastermind Abu Musab Zarqawi — for political reasons. We invaded with too few troops — for political reasons. We lowballed the cost of the war — for political reasons. We ignored the UN and then turned around and pleaded for their help — for political reasons. Then we installed Iyad Allawi as president behind the UN's back — for political reasons.

Don't Vote for Republicans - They Are Children

MSNBC - Political Humor

What the election has come to...

Don't Let GOP Muddy the Waters

Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Opinion / Letters / Don't let GOP muddy the waters

The Bush administration is hoping that voters will write off this issue as too confusing, or, worse, a partisan fiction. This administration is adept at changing the subject to avoid answering detailed questions. The Globe, in its zeal to appear nonpartisan, should not assist in that effort.

Bad Firewalls, Not GOP Conspiracy, Blocking International Voters

ABCNEWS.com : Hit by Virus, Pentagon Web Site Access Blocked

The U.S. military has blocked public access to nearly all its Web sites after its servers were attacked by a new computer virus.

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(special non-gloating thanks to askoronski)

Don't Vote for Bush - His Pentagon is Keeping Soldiers From Voting

from Citizens for Legitimate Government:

Pentagon blocks site for voters outside U.S. --In a decision that could affect Americans abroad who are not yet registered to vote in the Nov. 2 presidential election, the Pentagon has begun restricting international access to the official Web site intended to help overseas absentee voters cast ballots. Asked whether any other government Web sites had been blocked, a Pentagon spokesman declined to comment.

http://www.legitgov.org/

http://www.legitgov.org/index.html#breaking_news

Don't Vote for Movement Conservatives - They're Incipient Fascists

Orcinus

The final morph into Pseudo Fascism occurred under the dynamic under which the "conservative movement" operated after taking control of all three estates of American government in 2000. By seizing the presidency through means perceived by nearly half the nation at the time as illegitimate, conservative-movement ideologues were forced to govern without anything approaching a popular mandate. But rather than responding by moderating their approach to governance, the Bush administration instead acted as though it had won in a landslide, and proceeded to follow an openly radical course:

-- Instituting a massive transfer of the tax burden from the upper class to the middle, an approach that deepened the nation's economic malaise.

-- Appointing radical right-wingers to key positions in the nation's court system; shifting the emphasis in national security from terrorism to missile defense, a policy that left us vulnerable to the Sept. 11 attacks.

-- Instituting, in the wake of those attacks, the radical "Bush Doctrine" of unilateralist pre-emption.

-- Further using the attacks to undermine civil liberties under the Patriot Act and creating a policy of incarcerating citizens indefinitely as "enemy combatants".

-- Invading another nation by raising the false specter of the "imminent threat" of weapons of mass destruction.

-- Allowing intelligence officials to run amok, violating the Geneva Convention in interrogations at Bagram, Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib.

-- Fighting, for clearly political reasons, every effort to have a thorough examination of the causes of the 9/11 security failures.

-- Moreover, at every step of nearly every policy it has pursued, the administration has erected obstacles to transparency, making clear it intends to operate in utter secrecy whenever possible.

The radical course followed by the Bush administration was, in fact, guaranteed to further divide the nation rather than unify it in a time of need. Moreover, the administration clearly proved itself wrong on so many major counts -- the economy, the pre-Sept. 11 handling of the terrorist threat, the rationale for war, the postwar occupation of Iraq -- that under normal circumstances, their competence above all should have come into serious question.

Maintaining power and instituting their agenda in this kind of milieu meant, for the conservative movement, a forced reliance on sheer bluff: projecting "strength and resolve" while simulatenously attacking their political opponents as weak and vacillating. To pull this bluff off, it required the assistance of a compliant press eager to appear "patriotic," and it received it in spades.

Mostly, it has succeeded in doing this by a constant barrage of emotion-driven appeals to the nation's fears in the post-9/11 environment:

-- Calling 9/11 "the day that changed everything," the Bush regime and its conservative-movement supporters have consistently projected a sense of overwhelming national crisis that requires reaching beyond traditional solutions and instituting a number of clearly radical steps.

-- Conservatives have continually stressed the primacy of Americanness, a group identity to which we are obligated, as "patriots," to subordinate all kinds of civil rights and free speech.

-- They have consistently emphasized the nation's victimhood in the 9/11 attacks -- and attacked any suggestion of a more nuanced view as "unpatriotic" -- and have further argued consistently that the 9/11 attacks justify nearly any action, regardless of legal or moral limits (see, e.g., Abu Ghraib), against America's enemies.

-- A favorite conservative theme is a dread of national decline under the corrosive effects of liberalism, often identifying it with equally dreaded alien influences. (See, e.g, Sean Hannity's bestselling screed, Deliver Us From Evil: Defeating Terrorism, Despotism, and Liberalism.)

-- They have consistently argued for a closer integration of a purer American community under the aegeis of "national unity." However, this unity is not a natural one reached by compromise; rather, it can only be achieved by a complete subsumation of American politics by the conservative movement, creating essentially a one-party state. Citizens can join by consent if they like, or they can face exclusion as a consequence.

-- While denouncing their opponents -- especially Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry -- as "weak on terror," conservatives have consistently portrayed George W. Bush as the only person capable of making the nation not only secure from terrorists, but the dominant political and cultural force in the world, a role often portrayed in terms of a national destiny as the "beacon of democracy."

-- Most of all, they have stressed Bush's superiority as a president because of his reliance on his instincts and "resolve" and his marked refusal to engage in abstract reasoning.

-- At times, conservatives have even trod into arguing in favor of a war ethos (see, for instance the popular bumper sticker: "War Has Never Solved Anything, Except for Ending Slavery, Fascism, Nazism and Communism"); at other times -- as in all the talk about "shock and awe" in the Iraq invasion -- they have even suggested there is a kind of beauty to violence, especially in the service of the imposition of American will.

-- Finally, in defending the administration's actions -- particularly in invading Iraq under the pretense of a nonexistent "imminent threat," and for encouraging conditions that led to international-law violations at Abu Ghraib -- many conservatives have simply dismissed the critics by invoking 9/11 and the larger right, by sheer virtue of our national military power, to dominate other nations and individuals with no restraint. (The conservative movement's chief mouthpiece, Rush Limbaugh, was especially noteworthy in this regard, dismissing the Abu Ghraib as similar to fraternity hazing, and responding to a report that Iraqi Prime Minister Allawi had summarily executed six insurgents: "Good. Hubba-hubba.")

All of these appeals have come wrapped in the twin themes that are central to the appeal of the conservative movement:

-- An insistence that the movement represents the only "real Americans."

-- Pervasive expressions of contempt for the weak.

These latter traits, in particular, expose the underpinnings of the "conservative movement" for their genuinely corrosive and divisive nature.

But does all this add up to fascism?

Not in its fullest sense. But it does replicate, in nearly every regard, the architecture of fascism in its second stage of growth -- the stage at which, in the past, it has obtained power.

All that is needed for a full manifestation of American fascism, at this point, is for a genuine crisis of democracy to erupt. And if that occurs, it is almost inevitable that the differences between fascism and pseudo-fascism will vanish.

Don't Believe Gallup - Their CEO is Oversampling Republicans, and Gives to Bush

The Left Coaster: Why You Should Ignore The Gallup Poll This Morning - And Maybe All Of Theirs

Given that Gallup’s CEO is a GOP donor, this should not be a surprise. But it does require us to remind the media, like Susan Page of USA Today, who wrote the lead story on the poll in the morning paper, and other members of the media who cite this poll today, that it is based on a faulty sample composition of 40% GOP and 33% Democratic.

Republicans Know - Touch-Screen Votes Don't Count

BartCop's most recent rants

Just thought I'd pass you on some interesting news.

One of my girlfriends is supporting Kerry but currently registered as a Republican.

She's been contacted by the PA GOP and told to vote by absentee ballot.

Did the Republicans apologize for doing this in Florida since it was a clear vote of no confidence for the voting machines that they had advocated?

Vote for Kerry - He Reverses the Attacks of Fascists - A Rare Happy Ending -

Bumper Sticker Insubordination - A Kerry fan gets fired, and then hired, for her politics. By Timothy Noah

Then, late this afternoon, Kerry himself phoned Gobbell. "He was telling me how proud he was that I stood up," Gobbell told me. "He'd read the part where Phil said I could either work for him or work for John Kerry. He said, 'you let him know you're working for me as of today.' I was just so shocked."

Don't Vote For Bush: The Eric Alterman Version

MSNBC - Altercation

# Bush and company specifically ignored multiple warnings of just such an attack.

# Bush and company lied to the heroes of 9/11 about the health and safety implications of breathing the air down at Ground Zero- my own family included.

# Bush and company immediately sought to manipulate the grief and anger of the attacks to launch an unnecessary and counterproductive war against Iraq which has resulted in over a thousand needless American military deaths and U.S. soldiers turning into occupiers and in some case torturers.

# Bush and company lied to the nation about the responsibility for the attack, trying to pin it on Saddam Hussein who had nothing whatsoever to do with it.

# Bush and company allowed its friends in the Saudi royal family to hide its relationship to the killers.

# Bush and company made only a lackluster effort to capture the killers, allowing many to escape at Tora Bora and pulling agents and resources out of Afghanistan to feed its obsession with Iraq.

# Bush and company did everything they could to prevent and later, undermine an investigation of why 9/11 was allowed to happen.

# Bush and company continue to ignore their responsibility to protect the nation from another attack, failing to protect its ports, nuclear and chemical plants, and its most vulnerable urban targets and instead, have actually gone out of their way to inspire more such attacks, despite intelligence warnings on this very topic.

# Bush and company have destroyed the sympathy our nation enjoyed (and deserved) in the immediate aftermath of the attack and have instead turned that sympathy into global hatred and disgust, further endangering our citizens.

# Bush and company have repeatedly manipulated the powerful imagery of the attacks for their own partisan political purposes.

Don't Vote For Bush - His Backers Are Fascists

skippy the bush kangaroo

She said her manager was standing in another room and she asked him if that meant for her to go back to work or go home. the manager told her to go back to work, but he came back a few minutes later and said, " 'i reckon you're fired. you could either work for him or john kerry,' " gobbell said.

"i took off my gloves and threw them in the garbage and left," gobbell said.

Vote Every Republican Out - Use Your Absentee Ballot - "Voter intimidation is part of the touch screen system."

Democratic Underground Forums - Senator backs voting machine bill after firsthand experience with glitch

"A spokesman for Ohio-based Diebold Election Systems, which makes the AccuVote machine, said it provides ample opportunity for voters to change their votes and gives clear instructions on how to do so. David Bear also said voters see a summary screen at the end of their voting session, detailing each vote they cast.

"The voter always has the option to change their vote," he said."

Yeah, that's crap. I posted a while back on a nonpolitical forum about my mom being bullied by election officials into pushing the finished button after he kindly bypassed part of her ballot while "prepping" the machine for her. I know someone picked it up and posted that on BBV at one point.

My mom held her ground and eventually figured it out, while the official was screaming at her that once she got to the summary, she was done and had to press finish. Voter intimidation is part of the touch screen system.

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The above posting is from Democratic Underground's Latest Breaking News forum.

The Top Ten Reasons Bush Should Not Be Elected

corrente / Leah, Lambert, Tresy, the farmer, Tom, and Xan

1. He fought the wrong war.

Rather than going after Al Qaeda (say, at Tora Bora) he got us into Iraq. Repeating the Big Lie that fighting Saddam was fighting AQ doesn't make it true. And he has not (barring an October Surprise) brought Osama Bin Laden to justice. (Remember "dead or alive"?)

2. He fought the wrong war badly.

Not enough troops (ask Shinseki). The wrong equipment (no body armor, not enough armored vehicles. Incompetent postwar planning. Then stop-loss orders for the Reserves.

3. He fought the wrong war for the wrong reasons.

After countless shifting justifications, Bush settled on WMDs. Then the WMDs didn't exist.

The shifting justifications showed that Bush was going to go to war, no matter what. So Bush lost all our allies. Gulf War 1 was fought with minimal loss of American life, ended in days, and the allies paid for most of it. Bush's war has cost 1000 American lives so far, there's no end in sight, and we're paying for all of it.

4. He betrayed the honor of our military by allowing and encouraging the practice of torture, prohibited in our Constitution as "cruel and unusual punishment."

If the torture at Abu Ghraib makes Bush "sick," then why hasn't he commended whistleblower Joseph Darby for revealing it?

5. He has left our cities vulnerable to devastating terrorist attack.

(See "Loose nukes: Bush still refused to take the threat seriously")

6. He drained our treasury, taking us from record surplus to record deficit.

7. Instead of funding our ailing school system, he's has saddled it with costly, bureaucratic regulations.

8. He has increased the cost of Medicare while reducing its benefits.

9. He has created more unemployment and underemployment than any since the Great Depression.

10. He has sold out our nation's health and environmental security for short-term corporate profits.

Vite for Kerry - There's a lot at Stake

TIME.com: "I've Been in Worse Situations" -- Sep. 20, 2004

I feel really good. We're on an even playing field, and our folks are stoked. All over the country we've got an enormous amount of energy, people are organizing, and I just think the choice is very clear. The Supreme Court of the United States is at stake. After-school programs are at stake. Health care is at stake. Social Security is at stake.Jobs are at stake. The character of our country is at stake.

Don't Vote For Bush - His Followers Are Murderous Idiots, Just Like Him (especially in Indianapolis)

FOX59.com | WXIN-TV | Indianapolis | Military support rally shared different opinions

"I think Kerry should be tried for treason," said Edytha Hall, who described herself as a grandmother of eight. She equated Kerry with Osama Bin Laden. "I think he's a traitor. I think he's an evil, evil man. I think he should be shot." Gesturing to the opponents of the war, who recognized their own solemn demonstration on the northside of the monument, Hall said, "Soldiers are fighting for them so they can show their stupidity."

Don't Vote for Bush - Vote Libertarian! Or, Hey, that Constitution Party looks pretty good, too!

Third parties seen as threat to Bush - The Washington Times: Nation/Politics - September 10, 2004

The Libertarian Party is now on the presidential ballot in 44 states and the Constitution Party in 35 states, both more than the 24 that Mr. Nader has managed amidst a concerted effort from state Democrats to thwart his bids.

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Don't Vote For Bush - He Lied About Everything

BartCop's most recent rants

Subject: It's because he lied about it

I remember when the Republicans were trying to get President Clinton kicked out of office saying,"It's not that he had sex with that woman - it's that he lied about it."

Now we get to say the same thing.

It's not that Bush has strings pulled to get him out of Vietnam - it's that he lied about it. It's not that he didn't show up for his national guard duty - it's that he lied about it.

It's not that they didn't find weapons of mass destruction - it's that he lied about it.

And - it's not that he got us into and unprovoked war against the wrong enemy that has crippled the economy and got 1000 soldiers killed - it's that he lied to get us in there.

Well - actually - it is about getting 1000 soldiers killed - not just that he lied about it.

Marc Perkel San Francisco, CA.

Don't Vote for Bush, Because He's Getting His Ass Kicked All Over the Planet by an Old Guy in a Cave...(Bartcop has great readers)

BartCop's most recent rants

Subject: the simple fact is...

George Bush and his NeoCon pals have been getting their asses kicked all over this planet by an Arab living in a cave somewhere (supposedly) and his religiously insane jihadists.

Wish John Kerry would say it out loud; "George Bush is getting his ass kicked all over the place by an Arab in a cave somehwere and still continues to call himself a "war president'.

That should be our message at the moment.

Dot
(a reader of Bartcop.com)

Don't Vote For Bush, He's a Moral Coward.

His moral cowardice has guided him all along=The Hill.com=

The same sort of moral cowardice that led him to support the Vietnam War but decide it wasn't for him, run companies into the ground and let others pay the bill, play gutter politics but run for the hills when someone asked him to say it to their face - those are the same qualities that led the president to lie the country into war, to fail to prepare for the aftermath and then to refuse to take responsibility for any of it when the bill started to come due.

Don't Vote for Bush: He Lies Constantly about the Economy (as he does about everything else)

from the New York Times:
Paul Krugman points out that Bush lies constantly, habitually, reflexively:

t's the dishonesty, stupid. The real issue in the National Guard story isn't what George W. Bush did three decades ago. It's the recent pattern of lies: his assertions that he fulfilled his obligations when he obviously didn't, the White House's repeated claims that it had released all of the relevant documents when it hadn't.

It's the same pattern of dishonesty, this time involving personal matters that the public can easily understand, that some of us have long seen on policy issues, from global warming to the war in Iraq. On budget matters, which is where I came in, serious analysts now take administration dishonesty for granted.

It wasn't always that way. Three years ago, those of us who accused the administration of cooking the budget books were ourselves accused, by moderates as well as by Bush loyalists, of being "shrill." These days the coalition of the shrill has widened to include almost every independent budget expert.

For example, back in February the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities accused the Bush administration of, in effect, playing three-card monte with budget forecasts. It pointed out that the administration's deficit forecast was far above those of independent analysts, and suggested that this exaggeration was deliberate.

"Overstating the 2004 deficit," the center wrote, "could allow the president to announce significant 'progress' on the deficit in late October - shortly before Election Day - when the Treasury Department announces the final figures."

Was this a wild accusation from a liberal think tank? No, it's conventional wisdom among experts. Two months ago Stanley Collender, a respected nonpartisan analyst, warned: "At some point over the next few weeks, the Office of Management and Budget will release the administration's midsession budget review and try to convince everyone the federal deficit is falling. Don't believe them."

He went on to echo the center's analysis. The administration's standard procedure, he said, is to initially issue an unrealistically high deficit forecast, which is "politically motivated or just plain bad." Then, when the actual number comes in below the forecast, officials declare that the deficit is falling, even though it's higher than the previous year's deficit.

Goldman Sachs says the same. Last month one of its analysts wrote that "the Office of Management and Budget has perfected the art of underpromising and overperforming in terms of its near-term budget deficit forecasts. This creates the impression that the deficit is narrowing when, in fact, it will be up sharply."

In other words, many reputable analysts think that the Bush administration routinely fakes even its short-term budget forecasts for the purposes of political spin. And the fakery in its long-term forecasts is much worse.

The administration claims to have a plan to cut the deficit in half over the next five years. But even Bruce Bartlett, a longtime tax-cut advocate, points out that "projections showing deficits falling assume that Bush's tax cuts expire on schedule." But Mr. Bush wants those tax cuts made permanent. That is, the administration has a "plan" to reduce the deficit that depends on Congress's not passing its own legislation.

Sounding definitely shrill, Mr. Bartlett says that "anyone who thinks we can overcome our fiscal mess without higher taxes is in denial." Far from backing down on his tax cuts, however, Mr. Bush is proposing to push the budget much deeper into the red with privatization programs that purport to offer something for nothing.

As Newsweek's Allan Sloan writes, "The president didn't exactly burden us with details about paying for all this. It's great marketing: show your audience the goodies but not the price tag. It's like going to the supermarket, picking out your stuff and taking it home without stopping at the checkout line to pay. The bill? That will come later."

Longtime readers will remember that that's exactly what I said, shrilly, about Mr. Bush's proposals during the 2000 campaign. Once again, he's running on the claim that 2 - 1 = 4.

So what's the real plan? Some not usually shrill people think that Mr. Bush will simply refuse to face reality until it comes crashing in: Paul Volcker, the former Federal Reserve chairman, says there's a 75 percent chance of a financial crisis in the next five years.

Nobody knows what Mr. Bush would really do about taxes and spending in a second term. What we do know is that on this, as on many matters, he won't tell the truth.

Al Michaels Can Kiss My Ass

Tonight on Monday Night Football, which was a home game for the New England Patriots, thus held in Foxboro, Massachusetts, there was a sudden reversal of fortune for the Indianapolis Colts. Commenting on the huge momentum shift, John Madden said, "That's what you call a flip-flop."

Al Michaels said, "Well, we're in the right stadium for that."

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Madden didn't hear him or didn't get it. But I'm sure Michaels was pleased with himself.

Michaels makes me sick. At a pre-season game in Missouri, he made a big point that no one had been elected president without Missouri in 50 years. Then he showed photos of Bush and Kerry, at a time when Bush was leading the race, and showed the poll numbers. What this had to do with the football game, I have no idea.

Is the entire Disney/ABC megacorp complex in the bag for Bush just so that Eisner can continue to get his huge tax breaks from the president's brother in Florida for the Disney theme parks?

Whatever the reason, somebody please tell Al Michaels that he can kiss my ass, and that he should go hang out with his butt-buddy Dennis Miller until Rush Limbaugh replaces Madden on MNF.

Robert Dobbs
http://ScreamingPoints.com

Beware of Anti-Kerry Christians; they are often violent

TheDenverChannel.com - Politics - Fistfight Breaks Out Over Kerry Veterans

A member of a Christian group has been fired after allegedly punching several veterans marching for presidential candidate John Kerry in Monday's Harvest Festival parade in Windsor, Colo.

Don't vote for Cheney/Bush, because Cheney, the "brains" of the outfit, has gone insane: Cheney Threatens US with New Attack if Voters Choose Kerry

ABCNEWS.com : Cheney Warns Against Vote for Kerry

DES MOINES, Iowa Sept. 7, 2004 - Vice President Dick Cheney on Tuesday warned Americans about voting for Democratic Sen. John Kerry, saying that if the nation makes the wrong choice on Election Day it faces the threat of another terrorist attack.

Don't Vote For Bush - He's Leading a Fascist Movement

Eschaton

Another commentor at had their Kerry/Edwards lawn signs stolen. They wrote:

"This is minor, but tell me why I shouldn't be reminded of thugs breaking in to disrupt opposition political meetings, of destroying property of political foes... of fascism, in other words."

Kate wrote:

Thersites - No reason whatsoever. We are in for the fight of our lives for the sake of the Republic.

It's the Second American Revolution in the battle against the tyranny of King George.

And it's early 'thirties Germany, with one last chance to avert the disaster ahead.

Serious question: can anyone recommend good books on successful anti-fascist tactics? Something out of history is fine, it shouldn't be hard to update techniques.

Joe Wilson, on the C-Span panel talked about the "whiff of fascism." He said that when traveling around the country he's spoken to many people, especially elderly Central European immigrants, who have urgently warned him and asked him to get the message out, saying "by the time most people notice it, it's too late."

That's why I say this battle is one of sheer patriotism, and I, for one, am feeling sheer love-of-country coursing through my veins. We cannot be turned around on this. We must be willing to work as hard as is humanly possible, and to make many sacrifices if necessary.

It's only everything, everything at stake. God save the Constitution.

Don't vote for Bush: He makes more terrorists than he kills. Just now on ABC Radio News: The Idiocy of Bush's War

Cheney, speaking at some state fair, says "This is no time to let up in the war on terror. We have to press these guys and go after them hard until they give up wanting to perform these acts."

Next story:

"Seven Marines were killed today in a car bombing in Iraq."

How's that war coming, Dick? Are those terrorists giving up wanting to perform these acts? Or have you locked us into an eternal slaughterhouse that is impossible to escape?

Answer: You have locked us into an eternal slaughterhouse which is impossible to escape.

This is what's wrong with Bush's "War on Terror". Bush cannot kill "terrorists" faster than he creates them.

Don't vote for Bush: He makes more terrorists than he kills.

Don't Vote for Republicans, They Lie Constantly.

GOP Prism Distorts Some Kerry Positions (washingtonpost.com)

But the barrage by Republicans at their own convention has often misportrayed statements or votes that are years, if not decades, old.

Don't VOte For Bush; He's a Coward.

Bush's camp may cut 1 debate

President Bush's campaign won't say for sure whether he will agree to the three debates proposed by the independent Commission on Presidential Debates, or if a Republican strategist was right this week when he said the Bush campaign would agree to only two debates.

The Problem With Conservatives

Boston.com / News / Nation / Card says president sees America as a child needing a parent

NEW YORK -- White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card said yesterday that President Bush views America as a ''10-year-old child" in need of the sort of protection provided by a parent.

Bush is a Miserable Failure

Daily Kos

Bush Is A Miserable Failure
by Trapper John
Sun Sep 5th, 2004 at 18:07:48 GMT

Oh, yes he is. How and why we stopped saying this, I don't know. But let's review the facts:

Bush misled the country into an unnecessary war and an intractable quagmire in Iraq;

Bush has utterly failed to address the health care crisis in the US -- during his term, health care costs have risen 20-25% for the average family, and the number of uninsured Americans has risen to over 15%;

Bush covered up evidence of Saudi state support for the Al Qaida murderers even as he misled the US into a war against Iraq based on the lie that Iraq, not Saudi Arabia, supported Al Qaida terrorists;

Bush has failed the American economy, losing over 1 million jobs, even while he created loopholes for his elitist friends.

Odd New Art

I stumbled across these this morning on the ol' internet...

An interesting sociological collection, don't you think?

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Kerry at Midnight: Bush is Unfit

CBS News | Kerry: Bush Is 'Unfit To Lead' | September 2, 2004 20:37:13