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Kerry Defeats Bush; Bush Victory Assured!

I'm no fan of the Shrub, you know. But I also think Kerry is a lousy speaker. And I thought Kerry's first twenty or so minutes were pretty crumby, and I had a terrible feeling in my stomach.

But, after that, make no mistake about it, Kerry cleaned Bush's clock.

Sure, by tomorrow, the "liberal" media will have this somehow worked out to how a Bush defeat was a decisive victory for the president.

But, again, you know, you watched it. Bush just got his ass handed to him. Remember that when the horseshit piles up around your second story windows.

The Incredible Shrinking Shrub

The longer this thing goes on, the smaller, and blinkier, and weirder Bush starts to look. And Kerry, who usually looks about as uptight as Al Gore, looks more and more relaxed and comfortable.

It's going to take an assload of media "analysis" to turn this into a Bush victory.

As of now, he's getting his ass handed to him.

Bush Makes Strong Case For Electing Kerry

President Bush, regarding his fabulous success in dealing with North Korea:

“And on Iran, I hope we can do the same thing.”

North Korea, in January of 2001? Zero nuclear weapons.

North Korea in September of 2004? Four to seven nuclear weapons and a ballistic missile program.

Golly, who wouldn’t vote for Bush after that? I mean, who doesn’t want him to do the same thing in Iran?

Slow Start

But, frankly, as lousy a speaker as Kerry is, at this point, he's kicking Bush's ass. Bush is looking shakier and weaker as he goes on...much like his presidency.

Kerry Offers Vastly Different Iraq Plan: No George Bush Involved

One reason the candidates have not discussed a wide range of issues is that - for all the talk about stark differences - on many foreign policy subjects, from relations with China to the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians, the two differ only slightly, if at all.

Even on Iraq, the candidates' sharpest stated differences are retrospective, rather than prospective. Mr. Bush defends the war as central to the struggle against terrorism; Mr. Kerry criticizes it as a diversion. As they look ahead, though, neither man is calling for the immediate departure of American troops; both advocate accelerating the training of Iraqi forces.

Okay, here’s a difference, one I guess that the geniuses at the New York Times, who are paid to follow politics and world events, might have missed:

George W. Bush’s execution of his foreign policy, from China, to Israel, to North Korea, to “old” Europe, to Iran, to Venezuela, to Afghanistan, to Iraq has been a total, incompetent disaster.

The reputation of America has never been lower in the international community. Relations with our allies have never been so strained. Iraq is a disaster. Afghanistan is becoming one. North Korea is making nukes and missiles to deliver them. Iran will be soon. And anyone, anyone at all remember the “roadmap to peace”?

George W. Bush can’t go to a single country in the world where he isn’t despised. Fuck, London had to be sealed off for his visit to England. Jesus Christ, the Irish, who are the most pro-American country in the world, hate Bush.

Bush has the worst foreign policy record in the history of the United States.

Are Kerry’s policies the same? They don’t sound the same. But even if they were identical, they wouldn’t be applied by the total, naïve, incompetent clowns who are running our foreign policy now.

And Bush has a lifelong record of failure, incompetence, laziness, and lawlessness. And his first term has lived up to that. There is absolutely no reason to suspect he’ll do any better with a second term.

In fact, without the political pressure of an election, there’s everything to suggest that he’ll do even worse.

Again, let’s say you have an accountant, for example. And his plan is diversify your portfolio, some stocks, some bonds, some real estate, whatever.

After four years, you’ve lost all your money.

And you meet with another accountant. And he proposes diversifying your portfolio—some stocks, some bonds, some real estate, whatever.

Do you say, “Well, your plan sounds pretty similar to my current plan. I think I’ll just stick with the guy who bankrupted me”?

Do you stick with the proven loser?

No.

You fucking fire the first incompetent clown and you give the second guy a chance.

At this point, I’m a hell of a lot less interested in the details than the competence and intelligence of the person trying to implement those details.

Bush Brings More Shame On Americans

The decision by President Vladimir Putin's cabinet to approve ratification [of the Kyoto Protocol] means that the landmark UN agreement, which aims at cutting the greenhouse gases causing global warming, and which was gravely weakened by George Bush's decision to withdrawn the US from it in 2001, is at last likely to enter into legal force some time next year.

Only George W. Bush and the modern Republican party could make Russia a better citizen of the world than the United States.

Journalists Not Reporting Bad News From Iraq Because Iraq Has Become Too Dangerous For Them To Leave Their Homes

The insurgency, we are told, is rampant with no signs of calming down. If any thing, it is growing stronger, organized and more sophisticated every day. The various elements within it-baathists, criminals, nationalists and Al Qaeda-are cooperating and coordinating.

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America's last hope for a quick exit? The Iraqi police and National Guard units we are spending billions of dollars to train. The cops are being murdered by the dozens every day-over 700 to date -- and the insurgents are infiltrating their ranks. The problem is so serious that the U.S. military has allocated $6 million dollars to buy out 30,000 cops they just trained to get rid of them quietly.

As for reconstruction: firstly it's so unsafe for foreigners to operate that almost all projects have come to a halt. After two years, of the $18 billion Congress appropriated for Iraq reconstruction only about $1 billion or so has been spent and a chuck has now been reallocated for improving security, a sign of just how bad things are going here.

Oil dreams? Insurgents disrupt oil flow routinely as a result of sabotage and oil prices have hit record high of $49 a barrel. Who did this war exactly benefit? Was it worth it? Are we safer because Saddam is holed up and Al Qaeda is running around in Iraq?

Iraqis say that thanks to America they got freedom in exchange for insecurity. Guess what? They say they'd take security over freedom any day, even if it means having a dictator ruler.

I heard an educated Iraqi say today that if Saddam Hussein were allowed to run for elections he would get the majority of the vote. This is truly sad.

I just don't know what's more upsetting up this:

That these neo conservative jokers mislead the nation into this horrible mess?

That these same clowns had no fucking Plan B when their childish and unrealistic Plan A blew up like the State Department warned them it would, and that, because of the utter incompetence and naive stupidity in the summer of 2003, all of our opportunities to salvage this mess were wasted, that we may not be able to salvage this mess at all now?

That journalists send emails like this to their friends instead of splashing the ugly truth all over the front pages?

Or that for seventeen months, the president of the United States has been telling the American people that things are improving in Iraq, that real progress is being made, that he's darn optimistic about the situation, and that Iraq is going to be a model of democracy in the mid east.

Hell, on the campaign trail, Bush has been touting the invasion of Iraq as one of his accomplishments. It's something he's proud of.

Read that whole email. Think for a little while what an appalling disaster Bush has created in Iraq. Then listen to what he says about the situation in a half an hour or so.

He should not be allowed to be voted out of office. He should be impeached.

For All You Professional Liars

I was watching O'Reilly interview the Preznit, and it was pretty great. But I thought it was about time O'Reilly had his own theme song. You know, everyone needs a theme song.

And it goes well with his viewers...

They'll be howling by midnight
They'll be drooling by dawn
Skulls shrunk down to the size their brains
Heads shaven and shorn...

And, as always, you know, sing along. It's good for the soul.

O'Reilly Factor Viewers Nearly As Dumb As Host

In a recent survey, viewers of Stewart's "The Daily Show" on Comedy Central tested better than Letterman and Leno viewers on a six-question politics quiz.

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On top of that, "Daily Show" viewers know more about election issues than people who regularly read newspapers or watch television news, according to the National Annenberg Election Survey.

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Comedy Central was waiting for news like this. On September 17, Stewart appeared on Bill O'Reilly's "The O'Reilly Factor" only to be told his viewers are "stoned slackers" and "dopey kids."

"You know what's really frightening?" O'Reilly asked Stewart. " You actually have an influence on this presidential election. That is scary, but it's true."

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"Daily Show" viewers are 78 percent more likely than the average adult to have four or more years of college education, while O'Reilly's audience is only 24 percent more likely to have that much schooling.

Plus, the network noted, "Daily Show" viewers are 26 percent more likely to have a household income more than $100,000, while O'Reilly's audience is only 11 percent more likely to make that much money.

GOP Declares Accusing A President Of Lying Is Simply Wrong; Hopes America Slept Through The Nineties

WASHINGTON , Sept. 29 — The House committee hearing began as a serious discussion about the coming elections in Afghanistan. It ended in insults, so partisan and personal that the committee chairman expressed relief upon adjournment.

Deputy Secretary of State Richard L. Armitage told the House International Relations Committee that he expected the Taliban to try to disrupt the elections in Afghanistan "perhaps even by attempting a large-scale attack on election day itself," Oct. 9.

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The mood seemed to change when Representative Robert Menendez, Democrat of New Jersey, seized on President Bush's declaration in Ohio last week that "as a result of the United States military, the Taliban is no longer in existence."

So, Mr. Menendez asked Mr. Armitage, "did you fail to give the president a briefing that the Taliban is still in existence?"

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That was too much for Representative Henry J. Hyde, the Illinois Republican who heads the committee. He said that "calling the commander in chief a liar by every hour on the hour" was simply wrong, and was helpful to "the other side," by which he appeared to mean America's terrorist enemies.

Henry Hyde thinks that calling the president a liar is simply wrong???

Gosh, I thought Henry Hyde was the guy who thought that when the president said anything that wasn’t true to the American people—even if it involved a personal matter--the people’s trust had been betrayed and it was grounds for impeachment!

Judiciary Committee Chairman Henry J. Hyde (R-Ill.), who oversaw the two-month inquiry that led to this day's historic debate, said Clinton's actions were not a private matter but a direct assault on his oath to uphold the nation's laws. "The compact has been broken," Hyde said. "The people's trust has been betrayed."

I also thought Henry Hyde felt criticism of an untruthful president—hell, even impeachment—was not only “helpful” but it was our moral obligation. It was our national obligation to the world!

Hyde and other Republicans rejected the grievance, noting that impeachment proceedings were held against President Richard M. Nixon while U.S. troops were still fighting in Vietnam. "We felt the quicker we could go ahead, the sooner we could show the world that our democracy works," Hyde said, triggering derisive noise from the Democratic side of the chamber.

And remember the difference here: Hyde and other Republicans were calling Clinton a liar by every hour on the hour for making a misleading statement about getting a blowjob.

They thought that was so important that a twice elected president should be removed from office.

And these same fucking weasels are now saying that it’s just wrong to call the president a liar for making a misleading statement about Afghanistan? For making misleading statements about Iraq? Where Americans are being killed?

How does anyone take Republicans seriously anymore?