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October 2004
Suspicious Black Male with a Crown Vic and Police Lights
Or, as we would call it in more progressive areas—police officer.
The Worst Editorial of the Campaign
The Bloomington Pantagraph. I have a special place in my heart for tweaking the Pantagraph having grown up with it, but in an editorial whining about Obama’s out of state trips (hello–anyone ever heard of a Leadership PAC where one uses fundraising to get leverage?), the editorial ends with a reference to Carol Moseley Braun’s one term:
Obama might not get that much if he puts too much stock in polls and takes Illinois voters for granted.
The only thing that can help Alan Keyes is if Keyes himself starts campaigning out of state.
Incompetent or Stupid–you decide
The government’s most definitive account of Iraq’s arms programs, to be released today, will show that Saddam Hussein posed a diminishing threat at the time the United States invaded and did not possess, or have concrete plans to develop, nuclear, chemical or biological weapons, U.S. officials said yesterday.
The officials said that the 1,000-page report by Charles A. Duelfer, the chief U.S. weapons inspector in Iraq, concluded that Hussein had the desire but not the means to produce unconventional weapons that could threaten his neighbors or the West. President Bush has continued to assert in his campaign stump speech that Iraq had posed “a gathering threat.”
The officials said Duelfer, an experienced former United Nations weapons inspector, found that the state of Hussein’s weapons-development programs and knowledge base was less advanced in 2003, when the war began, than it was in 1998, when international inspectors left Iraq.
Cheney on Iraq and 9/11
From the Transcript:
CHENEY: The senator has got his facts wrong. I have not suggested there?s a connection between Iraq and 9/11, but there?s clearly an established Iraqi track record with terror.
Ahem, from the Meet the Press interview:
Vincent Cannistraro, a former CIA counterterrorism specialist, said that Cheney’s “willingness to use speculation and conjecture as facts in public presentations is appalling. It’s astounding.”
In particular, current intelligence officials reiterated yesterday that a reported Prague visit in April 2001 between Sept. 11 hijacker Mohamed Atta and an Iraqi agent had been discounted by the CIA, which sent former agency Director James R. Woolsey to investigate the claim. Woolsey did not find any evidence to confirm the report, officials said, and President Bush did not include it in the case for war in his State of the Union address last January.
But Cheney, on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” cited the report of the meeting as possible evidence of an Iraq-Al Qaeda link and said it was neither confirmed nor discredited, saying
: “We’ve never been able to develop any more of that yet, either in terms of confirming it or discrediting it. We just don’t know.”
For those playing at home, that’s a BIG LIE.
Ben Ginsburg Gets Backed Into A Corner
Tweety nails him on the 9-11 connection to Iraq. Ben Ginsberg of B-C ’04 fame and SwiftBoat Vets for BS fame gets the Tweety treatment for trying to assert a connection. Then Tweety goes on to explain that the VP was wrong about saying he had never said there was a connection and referenced the Meet the Press interview. Ginsberg just had a really stupid look on his face.
Needed: Daily Show Footage on the Web
I can’t find it on the Comedy Central site, but absolutely needed is the Daily Show bit showing Cheney on Meet the Press saying there was a tie between 9-11 and Iraq and then him denying it on CNBC.
Paging Eric Zorn
Admittedly, most Republicans try to pretend he doesn’t exist, but there is someone really pushing for a draft.
Given Keyes didn’t serve and he says ‘that citizenship is not just a lazy person’s business,’ one mighth think he was hypocritical, but no, he left an out–the service could be diplomatic. Not, you know, working in poor communities organizing–diplomatic.
One student asked Keyes why he doesn’t spend more time talking about his views on health care and the economy in addition to abortion and gay rights. Keyes, who spent virtually his entire 20-minute speech talking about abortion, blamed the biased and “scandal-mongering” media for not reporting his views on those topics.
It helps to not right the material for the press.
Parenting Report
Dick Cheney REALLY DOES SCARE SMALL CHILDREN!
Lauging at Zorn
The other day about his spyware infection has come back to haunt me. I’ll be posting eventually, but, ummm…damn. And, yes, I have a ton of blocking software–I start at the point where Eric ended. And I’d link to him, but, ummm…I can’t right now.