"Soldiers dying in Iraq are dying to defend the US against terrorism as a victory in Iraq is a victory in the war on terror. They are dying to defend freedom and democracy in the US and to spread freedom and democracy to Iraq. They are dying for the interests of the US, her allies, and by extension, all Americans (whether they understand it or not). They are not dying for Haliburton, oil, or any other ridiculous shit / slant the anti-war types or conspiracy theorists want to spin. Haliburton is a company (among many others, both US and foreign) that seized a chance to profit in REBUILDING Iraq. There is a big difference between that and war-profiteering. Haliburton did not start the war, terrorists and those that support them did. Putting the chicken before the egg just won’t fly."
-polymath
"[B]efore you [Europeans] write us off as just a bunch of sweaty, hairy-chested, Bible-thumping morons who are more likely to break their fast by dipping a Krispy Kreme into a diet cola than a biscotti into an espresso - and who inexplicably have won more Nobel prizes than all other countries combined,
host 25 or 30 of the world's finest universities and five or six of the world's best symphonies, produce wines that win prizes at your own tasting competitions, have built the world's most vibrant economy, are the world's only military superpower and, so to speak in our spare time, have landed on
the moon and sent our robots to Mars - may I suggest you stop frothing at
the mouth long enough to consider just what are these ideas we hold that you find so silly and repugnant?"
- LynnKramer
"Democracy may have been invented in Greece, but cowardess was invented in France where it lives and thrives to this very day."
- RedTigress
"I'm referring to the Iraqi terrorist bastard fighters. The ones liberals insist are either not in Iraq, or are there by the thousands, depending on which liberal you listen to."
- noguru
"How is it that the Left can believe absolute crazy shit, like the Bush-Saudi Arabian money connection, or the even worse and totally false Bush-bin Laden connection (based on 100% lies) and look at you straight and say there was absolutely no way that Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda had ties?"
- reducto
New York (CNSNews.com) - An anti-GOP protest march took a violent turn Monday night just a few blocks from the hall where Republicans are holding their convention.
As throngs of protestors were marching up 8th Avenue around 8 p.m., a police officer was knocked off his scooter, setting in motion a series of events that culminated in a clash between police and protestors.
Police and some eyewitness accounts say the officer, identified as detective William Sample, was kicked and punched in the head by at least one protestor as he lay on the ground. Sample was knocked unconscious and taken to a Manhattan hospital where he was listed in serious condition, although the injuries are not believed to be life-threatening.
How peaceful of the peace protesters. I saw the video of this on the news, and it's pretty freaky. It's night time and there's this guy stomping on a a cop's head with the protesters just sitting there letting him do it. A lawyer standing there saw the man doing it, but won't identify him, simply because she is so blinded by her hate of republicans that she wouldn't turn in a fellow protester, despite the fact that he tried to kill a cop.
CNSNews.com witnessed hundreds of police officers, some with riot gear and others on horseback, sweep onto 8th Avenue to begin breaking up the march.
With chants of "the whole world is watching" and shouts of "Mother f***er, f***ing pig!" the crowd of protestors began to disperse, as the police forced them off the streets.
Mother f***ing pig. That's a nice peaceful chant. Strangely enough, I've never heard of any report of the ProtestWarrior crowd calling the cops mother f***ing pigs. I wonder why. But in the interest of fairness, I'll give their side of the story.
"We were going up 8th Avenue and two plainclothes police officers swarmed in the middle with scooters and all the cops just swarmed in the crowd and started beating people," said Scott Larson of Los Angeles Indymedia in an interview with CNSNews.com as police were breaking up the protest.
Cops just swarmed in the crowd and started beating people. For some reason I don't believe that, and I don't think any of you do either. I'm going to go on if you don't mind.
A white male protester verbally trashed a female African American police officer by telling her repeatedly that she had "sold out [her] own people" by becoming a policewoman.
"You people sold all that out, you sold out your own class to join the f***ing pigs. You sold out your own people. Someday you will stand before some kind of judgment," said the man, who would identify himself only as Zack from California.
A white male liberal from California is saying this? This is just too funny.
If this tells us anything, it's that almost all of the NYPD will be voting republican this year.
How will Kerry refute this one? Will he attack the charges, or continue on his path of trying to link it to Bush? They can't try to discredit the veterans themselves, because none of them appear in the ad and the ad isn't based on what they witnessed.
From what I hear, this one will be playing in Florida.
In the following days, you can expect more false liberal comments like the ones Clinton made about all the veterans serving on the boat supporting him.
I touched on the innacuracies of Clinton's "send me" speech at the convention, and now he's missplaced his facts on Kerry's war record again. You'd think that since he's practically the head of this party, he's be little better informed.
RIVERA: Quickly comment on the swift boat controversy's effectiveness and John Kerry in the polls etc.?
CLINTON: Well I think there has been too much controversy or discussion about the politics of it and little about its merits. All the guys that were on the boat with him say he told the truth. The records say he told the truth. There have been no serious disputes about any of the incidents in which he earned his medals. The ad was paid for by a big supporter of the president and the campaign's lawyer and one of the military advisers participate accurately in it and it was wrong. It was false witness.
RIVERA: Appropriate on a Sunday — you're about to give a sermon, but you have been a victim of slings and arrows. They don't necessarily have to be true to be effective.
CLINTON: That's why I think we need to answer back. But I think, I think in the beginning John couldn't believe it. I mean after all the guys that were on the boat with him were up there on stage with him including some that were probably Republicans — they just knew him and if you've never been through this kind of thing before, where people question your integrity and your very core — it's disorienting, but I think he's got a good answer. The facts are on his side and he'll prevail.
I don't remember seeing Steve Gardner up on stage. And since when is blaming Bush for the ad a good answer to the charges? I'd think that refuting the charges would be a better answer.
30 Times More Protesters Arrested Than at Democratic Convention
The Republican Party's convention has not yet started, but already more than 300 people protesting against President George Bush's re-election campaign have been arrested.
That is 30 times more people than were arrested during the four-day Democratic convention in Boston in July.
HAHAHAHAHAHA! It hasn't even started yet!!! Am I the only one that draws the conclusion that this might have something to do with the fact that these protesters are liberals instead of conservatives? Ho ho ho, I can't wait to see what the number ends up at after the convention.
These protesters are making this place a terrorist paradise. It's something like 250,000 are expected to show up, so you can imagine the police strain. But put that police strain with the sheer amount of Americans in one place at one time, then factor in that the our president will be there along with top government officials, and as if it couldn't get worse, NYC is pretty much the economic capital of the world. If we survive this, I'll be suprised.
I'm sure someone's said this, but I might as well. I'm tired of the left comparing Bush to Hitler, and I have to say something. For those of you that have forgotten, here is a list of the millions systematically murdered by Hitler:
the corrupt Bush/Cheney Inc. junta is using neo-con, neo-fascist smear tactics to lie, slander and malign Kerry in their "dishonest and dishonorable" ugly neo-hitlerian manner
Americans should beware not to fall in the trap of the guy who blindly follows a hitler-Bush/Cheney order to go after the dog that poops in his yard, meanwhile hitler-Bush/Cheney invade his home, rapes his wife and kills his kids.
Americans should beware not to fall in the trap of the guy who blindly follows a hitler-Bush/Cheney order to go after the dog that poops in his yard, meanwhile hitler-Bush/Cheney invade his home, rapes his wife and kills his kids.
"We the People" must reject this neo-hitlerian form of tyranny meant to silence us into submission ... It is not the American way ...
When has Bush murdered millions? You could say that invading Iraq was murdering Iraqis and our soldiers, as false as that is, but for they sake of argument, lets say that is murder. How many is that compared to the millions Hitler murdered? And we can expand upon the numbers I provided earlier because we are including those killed in war as being murdered now. So I have to add about 50,000,000 deaths on to that other number. Wow, so we have Bush who's current death toll is at thousands. Bush was n't committing genocide either, so that's one more thing that separates him from Hitler.
Hitler is not infamous for being patriotic or religious, Hitler is infamous for being a genocidal dictator that murdered millions upon millions, and comparing Bush to Hitler for reasons such as those is extremely unfair to him.
I challenge any of you liberals out there calling Bush Hitler to walk through the concentration camps, to visit the gas chambers, to watch the videos these places have to offer, and come out able to still tell me Bush is Hitler. I've walked through them, and I don't call anyone Hitlerian for anything short of mass genocide, and I am sickened that any of you would stoop to that.
As you all know, the liberals have been using McCain's words way to much. McCain condemned these ads, McCain criticized Bush about this, McCain says Kerry is such and such, well newsflash, McCain endorsed Bush. I was a big Kerry fan, but now that they've convinced me that McCain is always right and I must listen to him, so I guess it's time I followed his lead and jumped on the Bush bandwagon.
When you say, "Even Sen. McCain has said..." do you actually think that means something? McCain is by no means the voice of the republican party. He's just one senator. McCain also condemned the anti-Bush ads, so you democrats should too. McCain condemned Kerry's recent ad about Bush being up to his old tricks, so you democrats should too. McCain endorsed Bush for president, so you should too. Do I have to start pulling out Zell Miller's comments?
Now I'm off to write a song to post when Bush wins.
Dem presidential hopeful John Kerry personally phoned anti-Kerry swift boat vets, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.
Kerry reached out to Robert "Friar Tuck" Brant Cdr., USN (RET) Sunday night, just hours after former Sen. Bob Dole publicly challenged Kerry to apologize to veterans.
Brant was skipper of the #96 and # 36 boat and spent time with Kerry in An Thoi. Kerry and Brant slept in the same quarters, and Brant used to put Kerry back to bed at night when Kerry was sleepwalking.
Brant received a call from Kerry at his home in Virginia while he was watching the Olympics on TV.
The call lasted 10 minutes, sources tell DRUDGE.
KERRY: "Why are all these swift boat guys opposed to me?"
BRANT: "You should know what you said when you came back, the impact it had on the young sailors and how it was disrespectful of our guys that were killed over there."
[Brant had two men killed in battle.]
KERRY: [b]"When we dedicated swift boat one in '92, I said to all the swift guys that I wasn't talking about the swifties, I was talking about all the rest of the veterans." [/b]
Kerry then asked if he could meet Brant ["You were one of the best"] -- man to man -- face to face.
Brant declined the invite, explaining that Kerry was obviously not prepared to correct the record on exactly what happened during Vietnam and what happened when Kerry came back.
He wasn't talking about the swift vets he was talking about all the other veterans! How is that better? Just wondering, but does anyone know how much of his 4 months was spent fighting with non-swiftys? As noguru once said, "John Kerry is the gift that keeps on giving."
After all the money raised and spent, all the polling and focus groups, all the strategizing, all the negative ads, the issues weighed, the speeches and debates — could the outcome of the 2004 presidential election be decided by whose name appears first on the ballot?
Yes, that could indeed make the difference for President Bush and Sen. John Kerry, according to political experts and research studies.
"It turns out that being listed first earns a candidate about 3 percent more votes on average," said Jon A. Krosnick, a political scientist at Stanford University who has studied what he calls "the primacy effect" in ballot position.
"Oh yes, this is a well-established research finding," agreed Michael Traugott, a professor of political science at the University of Michigan.
"There have been a lot of studies, a lot of research on ballots, and the candidate who appears first gets more votes, probably because some people are not highly motivated or not well informed and the easiest thing for them to check or mark is the name they see first."
There is some disagreement about the size of any advantage, particularly at the presidential level where candidates are better known and feelings about them are strong.
To combat the primacy effect, 12 states have changed their election laws through the years to vary the order of candidates. Florida law awards first place to the governor's party and will put President Bush's name first, as it did in 2000.
Hahaha! That's great. But I found another link which goes on.
One state that tries to neutralize the primacy effect is Minnesota. Its law offsets the possibility of any permanent advantage by awarding first place on the ballot to the party that got the lowest number of votes statewide in the last presidential election.
This year, Kerry will be listed last in Minnesota because Democrat Al Gore carried the state in 2000. If the Green Party fields a candidate, he or she will be first. The Independence Party candidate will be second and Bush third.
Only in Massachusetts does the law specifically award first place to the incumbent candidate -- meaning that Bush will be listed first in Kerry's home state.
Nationally, the emerging pattern of advantage among swing states -- states that polls indicate could go either way in November -- favors Bush, whose name will appear ahead of Kerry's in eight such states with a total of 81 electoral votes: Florida, Nevada, New Hampshire, Maine, Michigan, West Virginia, Minnesota and Colorado.
Kerry's name will come before Bush's in four swing states with 53 electoral votes combined: Missouri, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Tennessee.
Yay. So ya'll democrats just better hope it isn't neck and neck, like the Kerry camp has predicted, come November or that 3% will push Bush over the edge.
At a fundraiser, attended by about 750 people, Kerry said the attacks by a group of Vietnam veterans and former Swift Boat commanders have intensified "because in the last months they have seen me climbing in America's understanding that I know how to fight a smarter and more effective war" against terrorists.
"That's why they're attacking my credibility. That's why they've personally gone after me. The president needs to stand up and stop that. The president needs to have the courage to talk about it."
You have to be a complete idiot to not see how hypocritical this is. Where was John Kerry when the HEAD OF THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE called Bush AWOL? Why didn't Kerry stand up and stop that? Instead of stopping it, Kerry played the ignorant card and let it slide.
"I don't what the facts are with respect to the president's service," he told reporters in Tucson, Arizona. "I know issues were raised previously. It's not up to me to talk about them or to question at this point. I just don't even know what the facts are. But I think it's up to the president and the military to answer those questions."
Asked if he thought it an appropriate issue for general election campaign, Kerry said, "I have not made up my mind."
I'm glad Kerry was a big man and stood up to stop those personal attacks. So on one side, we have Bush who calls Kerry's service honorable, and on the other we have Kerry who says Bush has questions to answer and might question Bush's military service in the future. Sure, Kerry condemned a Bush ad questioning Bush's service, but only after these Swift Boat ads came out. He was running with this AWOL thing until he ran right into a taste of his own medicine. Now he thinks he can condemn that ad and make everything better. No Kerry, you can't flip-flop your way out of this one.
That can't be right, can it? Why would a majority of veterans support the AWOL guardsman over the war hero? That defies all logic doesn't it? Unless a majority of veterans rightfully see those things as just some of the many lies the liberals put out there to try and steal their votes.
The appearance of his fellow Vietnam veterans at the Democratic convention helped John Kerry’s support among veterans, but the recent attacks on his Vietnam service may have moved veterans’ support back toward George W. Bush now. Kerry is running well behind his opponent among veterans; now, 55 percent of veterans back Bush, and 37 percent back Kerry. A few weeks ago, both candidates were tied among veterans.
PRESIDENTIAL CHOICE AMONG VETERANS (Registered voters)
Now Kerry-Edwards 37% Bush-Cheney 55% Nader-Camejo
That's quite the jump. Bush went from dead even to almost 20% ahead of Kerry. That's amazing. And this is just after the 1st ad. They just started airing that second one, and it's all downhill from here.
They've got some other interesting data. Bush has been stealing votes from Kerry not only in the veteran demographic, but in both the independent and white Catholic demographics. Like I said, for Kerry, it's all downhill from here.
PUNTA GORDA, Fla. (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry toured two Florida neighborhoods devastated by Hurricane Charley and said on Friday he was inspired by the courage of residents to rebuild.
Hahaha! I'm not against his visit, and like I said, I think he should be there. But he did an about face once again.
Time for a Kerry quote:
"For the moment, our focus is on all of the police and response personnel necessary not being diverted from a visitor and really focusing on the recovery itself," - John Kerry
Iran says it is deeply concerned about the U.S. military presence in neighboring Iraq and Afghanistan, and announced yesterday that some Iranian generals favor pre-emptive strikes against U.S. and Israeli forces if they sense an imminent threat.
Iranian Defense Minister Ali Shamkhani told al-Jazeera television Tehran will not stand by if it believes U.S. or Israeli forces are preparing an attack. Shamkhani also said Israel needs American approval to carry out any attack.
"It's certain to us that Israel won't carry out any military action without a green light from America. So, you can't separate the two," said Shamkhani
A spokesman for U.S. Central Command, which oversees U.S. troops in Iraq, says the military has not changed the way it is operating in the region as a result of the Iranian remarks.
The comments come amid heightened tensions between Iran, the U.S. and Israel over Iran's nuclear program. Tehran says its first nuclear-power station is to simply "generate electricity." But President Bush and Prime Minister Sharon say they suspect Iran is secretly developing nuclear weapons.
Last week, an Iranian military official told reporters Israel and the United States "would not dare" attack Iran since it could strike back anywhere in Israel and against U.S. military installations in the Middle East with its latest missiles, including the Shehab-3 medium-range ballistic missile, which experts say is capable of striking Israel or U.S. bases in the Gulf.
Israel last month conducted military exercises for a pre-emptive strike against several of Iran's nuclear-power facilities and is ready to attack if Russia supplies Iran with rods for enriching uranium.
An Israeli defense source said, "Israel will on no account permit Iranian reactors – especially the one being built in Bushehr with Russian help – to go critical."
The source also said any strike on Iran's reactors would probably be carried out by long-range F-15I jets, flying over Turkey, with simultaneous operations by commandos on the ground.
Russia is expected to deliver the enriching rods, currently being stored at a Russian port, late next year after a dispute over financial terms is resolved.
"If the worst comes to the worst and international efforts fail," the source said, "we are very confident we'll be able to demolish the ayatollah's nuclear aspirations in one go."
Aye. Well, we've got a year before Russia delivers them, so no need to fret yet. But I'm willing to bet this won't stop Israel from going in and destroying those reactors. But even if they would, it doesn't matter. Iran is threatening a pre-emptive war if they feel threatened, so Israel doesn't even have to do anything. I'm sure this will be resolved before late next year, but it's interesting to play out in your head.
What exactly does Iran plan on doing? The reuters article says they will respond with all their might. So what exactly does that mean? Will they come crashing through the Iraqi border at the American troops stationed there? That's an attack on Iraq, and by then the Iraqis will have a formidable military. And how will we win this war? There's no way we could invade Iran and hope to keep order without internationa l support, and I don't think enough countries will contribute the troops needed. I expect it would just be a war where we bomb Iran into submission.
Then you start thinking, what if Iran has nukes? How exactly will things play out if Iran decides to nuke Israel...
What Do Kerry, a Pot, a Kettle, and the Color Black Have in Common?
BOSTON, Massachusetts (CNN) -- Democratic presidential candidate and Vietnam War veteran John Kerry on Thursday shot back at attack ads questioning his service record during the war and called on President Bush to denounce the TV commercials.
Kerry said the ads, aired by the group Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, are funded by a Republican contributor from Texas.
"They're a front for the Bush campaign. And the fact that the president won't denounce them tells you everything you need to know -- he wants them to do his dirty work," he told a cheering crowd at a meeting of the International Association of Fire Fighters in Boston.
"Of course, the president keeps telling people he would never question my service to our country. Instead, he watches as a Republican-funded attack group does just that. Well, if he wants to have a debate about our service in Vietnam, here is my answer: Bring it on!" Kerry challenged.
I'm not sure if Kerry is just stupid or completely ignorant of everything that's been going on in the past year. Take this quote:
"They're a front for the Bush campaign. And the fact that the president won't denounce them tells you everything you need to know -- he wants them to do his dirty work," he told a cheering crowd at a meeting of the International Association of Fire Fighters in Boston.
Now replace Bush with Kerry, and make the subject Fahrenheit 9/11. Or make the subject any of the many anti-Bush 527 ads that Kerry has yet to denounce the message of.
Of course you'll also notice that Kerry keeps going on about the Republican funded 527 ad. Does John Kerry know who George Soros is? Does he have any idea the amount of money that man has given to what by Kerry's logic would be a front for his campaign? In fact, Kerry even hires former moveon.org staff for his campaign. Suspicious?
Right now, I'm just in utter disbelief. How could he in good conscience say this? I guess we'll just have to quote him again:
"No one is better at demanding action and holding government accountable than MoveOn.Org – and together we can stop the Bush right-wing juggernaut by mobilizing the United States Senate to reject any Bush Supreme Court nominee hostile to the rights of women to choose. " - John Kerry
Kerry Caught In A Lie, and Swift Vets Proven Right
A previously unnoticed passage in John Kerry's approved war biography, citing his own journals, appears to contradict the senator's claim he won his first Purple Heart as a result of an injury sustained under enemy fire.
Kerry, who served as commander of a Navy swift boat, has insisted he was wounded by enemy fire Dec. 2, 1968, when he and two other men took a smaller vessel, a Boston Whaler, on a patrol north of his base at Cam Ranh Bay.
But Douglas Brinkley's "Tour of Duty," for which Kerry supplied his journals and letters, indicates that as Kerry set out on a subsequent mission, he had not yet been under enemy fire.
While the date of the four-day excursion on PCF-44 [Patrol Craft Fast] is not specified, Brinkley notes it commenced when Kerry "had just turned 25, on Dec. 11, 1968," which was nine days after the incident in which he claimed he had been wounded by enemy fire.
Brinkley recounts the outset of that mid-December journey, which included a crew of radarman James Wasser, engineman William Zaladonis, gunner's mate Stephen Gardner and boatswain's mates Drew Whitlow and Stephen Hatch:
"They pulled away from the pier at Cat Lo with spirits high, feeling satisfied with the way things were going for them. They had no lust for battle, but they also were were not afraid. Kerry wrote in his notebook, 'A cocky feeling of invincibility accompanied us up the Long Tau shipping channel because we hadn't been shot at yet, and Americans at war who haven't been shot at are allowed to be cocky.'"
The diary entry apparently confirms assertions made by Swift Boat Veterans for the Truth, a group of more than 250 vets opposing his presidential candidacy who served in the Naval operation that patrolled the rivers and canals of the Mekong Delta area controlled by North Vietnam.
Ha dee frickin' ha! I've been telling you this. He lied about that Purple Heart but nobody cares. The Swift Boat Veterans for Truth were at least right on this one. If you want to know more, you can go here:
How about that. How honorable is that? That is what this election has become hasn't it? Bush was in the guard, and Kerry was a decorated Vietnam veteran, right? So Kerry heroically lied about what happened just to get a medal so he could either get out of that country, further his political career, or both.
It gets better. They tried to discredit Dr. Letson by saying that none of Kerry's crew had confided in him that they had not recieved fire, but Letson claimed they did. So who is right? Well, since Letson wasn't there, and the only way he could've known that Kerry did in fact not recieve fire would be if some of the crew had confided in him. So we now have more liars in the bunch. Or they've just forgotten, either way they are no longer all that credible when it comes to recalling what happened in Vietnam.
But what's important about this story is not that he didn't deserve the Purple Heart, but that he lied about it. If Kerry lied about this, what else has he lied about? We know he lied about being in Cambodia. He's proven himself completely untrustworthy and I for one am disgusted. No wonder the Swift Vets have spoken out.
HOOD RIVER, Ore. — Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry (search) does not plan to visit Florida in the aftermath of Hurricane Charley because he's concerned his campaign entourage could distract from recovery efforts, he said Saturday.
President Bush (search) plans a Sunday tour of areas hit by the hurricane. Bush declared a state of emergency at the request of his brother, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (search), and Kerry said he supports their efforts.
Kerry said he has instructed his Florida campaign staff to provide food, clothing, shelter or other assistance to people whose lives have been disrupted by the hurricane.
"For the moment, our focus is on all of the police and response personnel necessary not being diverted from a visitor and really focusing on the recovery itself," Kerry said.
"Teresa and I are really thinking about those folks and our prayers and our thoughts are with them in the next hours," he said. "And we hope very, very much that the recovery can proceed as rapidly as possible and lives can be put back together."
Now, I don't care what his reasons are, this can't be good for Kerry. Bush will swoop in as the champion of the people saying how much he cares, but Kerry won't be there to swoop in right after Bush saying how much he feels their pain. To me, I think this might be one of those little things that shifts Florida into Bush's hands. You'll have 2 Bush's touring the state helping people and Floridians will start getting a more favorable opinion of Bush.
"Three years ago, the president enacted a far-reaching ban on stem-cell research, shutting down some of the most promising work to prevent, treat and cure Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, diabetes, AIDS and so many other life-threatening diseases," said Mr. Kerry, opening his address. He concluded: "[W]e're going to lift the ban on stem-cell research."
T his was like promising to lift the president's ban on banana yellow cars. The president, of course, never banned banana yellow cars. If automakers decided tomorrow there was an infinite market for banana yellow cars, they would be free to produce nothing but such cars. No presidential edict would prevent them. S ame goes for stem-cell research. Pharmaceutical companies are now free to devote their research budgets to nothing but stem-cell experimentation. Indeed, they would be stupid not to — if something else Mr. Kerry said in his radio address were true. "At this very moment," said Kerry, "some of the most pioneering cures and treatments are right at our fingertips, but because of the stem-cell ban they remain beyond our reach." S urely some of the "Benedict Arnold companies" Mr. Kerry attacked for moving abroad to evade American taxes would have used their offshore hideaways by now to produce these lucrative cures — if Mr. Bush had indeed imposed a "ban on stem-cell research" and if, as Mr. Kerry claims, the cures were "right at our fingertips." But Mr. Bush didn't, and they aren't. O nce again, Mr. Kerry cloaks his true policy — in this case, taxpayer funding for cloning and killing human embryos — in duplicitous language. T hree years ago,Mr. Bush issued a narrowly targeted policy: Tax dollars could not fund stem-cell research that required killing new human embryos, but it could be used for every other type of stem-cell research. Later, Mr. Bush backed legislation, now blocked in the Senate, to ban all human cloning. T he president's policy stopped government from forcing taxpayers to fund the cloning and killing of human beings. It also aimed at stopping America from becoming a nation that tolerated — perhaps even profited from — the wholesale abuse of innocent life.
You know the old saying, if at first you don't succeed, tell the people your opponent backs things he really doesn't and attack those things instead. As if supporting tax funding for the intentional destruction of human life weren't bad enough, he has to mislead the American public while selling that idea.
At least we know this was probably the mistake of one of the people he hired to think for him, instead of his actual belief. Or is it....
"I don't consider myself a policy wonk, but I was brought up to care about the big issues and to think for myself, not hire others to do the thinking for me." - John Kerry
Not only has his approval rating gone us, after the democrats had their convention and we haven't even had ours yet, but in most other areas he's seen an increase in approval as well.
His approval rating is 51%, above 50 for the first time in months. The approval of his job in Iraq is up 3%. Bush's approval on terrorism is up 3%. The dissapproval rating on foreign affairs has dropped 3%. His approval on the economy has dropped a percentage point, but it's still about 5% higher than a month ago. All in all, I'd say things are lookin' up.
Another thing. I was watching FOX and they showed a clip of a Bush rally where a woman from the audience said she was doing something with the Texas Air National Guard and that she remembers Bush. I have looked and looked but can't find a single thing on this. I didn't see enough of the clip to know where it was or when it was, so it's making it pretty difficult. Does anyone know what I'm talking about?
PRINCETON, NJ -- Recent Gallup Poll data show substantial differences in the way Americans in core Democratic states and those in core Republican states rate the nation's economy. Residents of Republican states express a greater amount of optimism about the economy, while those living in Democratic states show much more pessimism. Americans living in the highly important showdown states
Duh! Wait, it's not over.
-- those that narrowly went for President George W. Bush or former Vice President Al Gore in the 2000 election -- rate the economy somewhere in the middle.
Wow. Can you believe that democrats would view the economy worse than republicans??? In an election year there has to be something better to survey than this.
August 6, 2004 – Senator John Kerry’s second religion advisor, Rev. Brenda Bartella Peterson, has just announced her resignation amid criticism that she had signed a legal brief asking that the words "under God" be removed from the Pledge of Allegiance in the Michael Newdow case.
He should pick Reverend Al as his religion advisor. I don't think either of them would be up for the idea, but it'd be pretty cool.
I wonder if I can say God is on our side? It's not like most of the vocal left believes in my god, so they won't object. Then you run into the whole Muslim, Jewish, Christian god all being the same, but I'm just going to say the Christian God is on our side. The Catholic Church has made it's opposition to his beliefs clear, more Christians, especially church going, will be voting Bush than voting Kerry. We are labeled the religious right all the time, so I'm going to assume God is on our side during this election.
On an entirely different and insignificant note, I hate Kerry's arms. Everytime he's up talking and he starts making hand gestures, it drives me crazy. He'll point in the air and then let his long, skinny arm drop lifelessly back to his side. I know it's not important, but it still disturbs me.
Now who wants some Leno jokes I got in The Federalist?
Jay Leno.... According to The Wall Street Journal, al-Qa'ida's new strategy is to destroy our financial institutions and bring the nation's big businesses and major corporations to their knees. No wait -- I'm sorry that's Ralph Nader's platform. .... A domestic centerpiece of the Republican agenda for the second Bush term is getting rid of the Internal Revenue Service. They want to do away with the IRS. Whew! So I guess they are serious about going after terrorist organizations. .... The Labor Department reported only 32,000 jobs were created last month. 32,000! The Kerrys have more servants than that! .... I'm sure you heard about this -- you know the Kerrys and the Edwards went to Wendy's the other day for lunch -- made a big deal about it. 'We're regular people going to Wendy's...' But when they got back to their bus, they secretly had a gourmet meal delivered from a nearby yacht club. So I guess there really are two Americas...and they don't like the food of the poor one. .... For the first time, John Kerry has criticized President Bush's reaction on 9/11. John Kerry said if he were reading to children at that moment he would have told them he had something important to attend to. Let me tell you something -- if John Kerry was reading to children, first he would have to wake them up. "Kids, I gotta go now...kids?!...kids?!"
Instead of quoting Kerry, lets quote the Godless Americans Political Action Committee (GAMPAC). For clarification, they endorsed Kerry.
"The GAMPAC supports and endorses Atheist candidates for public office."
Kerry Says He Would Approve Use of Force in Iraq Even if There Were no WMDs!
GRAND CANYON, Ariz. (Reuters) - Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry said on Monday he would have voted for the congressional resolution authorizing force against Iraq even if he had known then no weapons of mass destruction would be found.
I don't have to say anything else...but I will. So why would someone against the war vote for Kerry? He voted for the war, he professed that Saddam had WMDs for years, he says he'd vote for force in Iraq even if WMDs weren't found, he's against immediate withdrawal of troops. The left just lost their largest piece of ammo. If this doesn't lose Kerry the election, the left has lost their minds.
Time once again for a Kerry quote:
"George Bush sold us on going to war with Iraq based on the threat of weapons of mass destruction. But we still haven't found them. ... We were misled about weapons of mass destruction." - John Kerry
Like we don't all know John Kerry thought Saddam had WMDs and had been telling us that for years, but some just refuse to dig through their brains to remember that before they call Bush a liar.
I like that they have all that footage. If only there were a way to get some of it individually, then I could use them all the time. It's too long to play as a campaign ad, but if they cut it up, I think they could do it. If not, they could play it at the convention, since it's probably the only other time you'll be able to spring something on a large number of democrats.
It's times like these we look to a man who claims he would never mislead us into war:
"Without question, we need to disarm Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal, murderous dictator, leading an oppressive regime ... He presents a particularly grievous threat because he is so consistently prone to miscalculation ... And now he is miscalculating America's response to his continued deceit and his consistent grasp for weapons of mass destruction ... So the threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real..." - John Kerry
What is it these days. You'd think a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War would be well liked among VIETNAM VETERANS or at least the people he was fighting for, like the SOUTH VIETNAMESE!! I guess this is one more reason Kerry should've put a little less emphasis on Vietnam.
LOS ANGELES — The John Kerry (search) many Vietnamese-Americans remember is not the hero promoted by the Democratic Party, but the ex-soldier who returned to the United States to denounce the Vietnam War.
"His close association and anti-war activity make him known as Mr. Jane Fonda," said Frank Jao, who fought in the South Vietnamese army against the communist North.
Jao emigrated to California, and now is the Donald Trump of Orange County's Little Saigon (search), the largest Vietnamese community outside of Vietnam. In this area, 58 percent of the residents are registered Republicans.
While older Vietnamese-Americans may see Kerry as a turncoat, many younger voters are more open-minded, said Christian Collet, a pollster with Pacific Opinions Research (search).
"There is definitely a handful ... that wants to put war behind them and move forward with a constructive dialogue with Vietnam. And to that extent, John Kerry will get a handful of votes from those people," Collet said.
Another reason Vietnamese-Americans criticize Kerry is that he has worked to block a bill forcing communist Vietnam to clean up its human rights abuses (search). The bill passed 410 to 1 in the House, but Kerry blocked it in the Senate. Kerry has claimed that the best way to improve abuses in Vietnam is to engage the communists, not punish them.
In a Cali Today poll, 90 percent of Vietnamese Americans said they would vote for Bush, and only 10 percent said they would vote for Kerry.
There's only one way to gain insight into why Vietnamese-Americans could possibly have a problem with Kerry, and that's to quote Kerry.
"I committed the same kinds of atrocities as thousands of others in that I shot in free fire zones, used harassment and interdiction fire, joined in search and destroy missions, and burned villages. All of these acts were established policies from the top down, and the men who ordered this are war criminals." - John Kerry
Okay, they have put September's issue's sound files online, so I am happy. I still have to pay for the CD, but I can live with it.
For those of you who don't know what guitaronemag (or Guitar One Magazine) is, its just another one of the many guitar magazines. But what separates this magazine from the rest you ask? The ability to hear the tabs in the magazine online. So if you're new or just want to make sure you're playing the tab right, you can download the sound files and listen to them.
But now they've betrayed us. I subscribed one month ago to save money, since I had been buying it individually for a while, and this month they take their sound files offline an put it on a CD. Now, you'd think they'd include this CD in the magazine, but no, you have to call in and ask for it. That doesn't sound too bad does it? Well it gets worse. You have to pay for this CD, that's right, pay extra for something you thought you'd be getting for free when you subscribed. Not only do you have to pay for it, they gave you no forwarning. The previous issue mentioned nothing about paying for it, nor did they even mention that they would be taking the files offline. Just when they were growing on me, they stab me in the back.
Well, my blood stopped boiling, and I will no longer advocate the tar and feathering of the GuitarOne Magazine staff, but I'm still going to complain. But if any of the staff is reading this, could you at least put September and October's sound files online, as sort of a transition phase?
Different Signature on Kerry Medical Report Means Nothing
I don't know about you, but lately I've been seeing a lot of lefties parading this signature thing around to disprove the doctor's comments. Even on FOX News right now they have some guy up there preaching it.
Meehan questioned Letson's role, saying a J.C. Carreon signed Kerry's medical report of the wound. "This gentleman is not the man who is on the report," he said.
Letson said that Carreon, a lower-ranked "hospitalman," was "present at the time and he, in fact, made the entry into Lt. Kerry's medical record."
How about that. So even though there was a different signature, that doesn't mean Dr. Letson didn't treat him. Is it really that suprising that Letson would have this lower-ranking hospitalman sign off on the report if the injury required no more than a band-aid? &nbs p;
"They were always talking about that [antiwar demonstrations], and they picked right up on Kerry's throw-away line, 'Don't be the last man to die in a lost cause, or die for a lost cause,'" said Kenneth Cordier, an Air Force pilot who spent 2,284 days as a prisoner. "They repeated that incessantly. ... They used these photographs and inputs, voice tapes, whatever, from these peace people to try to convince us the whole country had turned antiwar and we were showing a very bad attitude and would never go home."
Jim Warner, a prisoner of the North Vietnamese in the Hoa Lo prison complex -- known to U.S. servicemen as the Hanoi Hilton -- remembers Kerry. He became acquainted with him, he said, when a North Vietnamese guard and interrogator the prisoners nicknamed "Boris" took Warner to the quiz shack in the complex's punishment camp called "Skid Row" in May 1971.
During a four-hour propaganda and harassment session, Boris pulled papers from his pocket and gave them to Warner to think about, he said. Some were clippings from a leftist newspaper in the United States. The other was a typewritten transcript of Kerry's testimony before a U.S. Senate panel in which he repeated allegations of U.S. troops routinely committing atrocities, attacking the war and saying communism was not a threat in Vietnam.
The atrocity allegations were garnered from the so-called Winter Soldier Investigation in Detroit in early 1971, in which actress and activist Jane Fonda and Kerry, a leader of Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW), were involved.
Now why on Earth would those Swift Vets be pissed off at Kerry? I just saw on the news footage of back in 1971 when one of them was attacking Kerry for his anti-war activities and accusations.
Kerry's had a lot of Vietnam questions being raised, and I don't honestly believe there are many out there that consider Kerry serving in Vietnam as the deciding factor in who their vote goes towards. However, I do believe that people will vote against Kerry if enough bad light is shone on his actions during the Vietnam era. It could cost him dearly, which is why I don't understand Kerry putting so much emphasis on Vietnam.
Oh, but this is dirty politics. How dare anyone question Kerry's patriotism!! These veterans are liars because they are being funded by republicans!! Wait, but if these veterans are liars for that reason, what about Kerry's veterans? Are the ones speaking for Kerry liars because the people making their voices heard are democrats? That's democrat logic for ya. Wait, but John McCain is angry at them. The same John McCain that has also been attacked by Vietnam veterans for his POW affairs.
I'm just glad something is finally coming out. Even if every single one of the guys in the commercial is a dirty liar, I just want to see all the democrats whining about how it's dirty politics to call into question Kerry's service when their propoganda minister is running around calling the president a deserter.
If you've seen the Swift Boat Veterans' ad, you have to admit that this is going to have an impact. I haven't seen any Bush or Kerry ads that are as powerful as this, and unlike Fahrenheit 9/11, you don't have to pay to see it, and you don't know when you're about to see it. No matter how what Kerry says in his defense, the damage has been done. And best of all, Bush isn't affiliated with it and just gets to sit back and watch it develop.
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