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Close the office door first. Triumph is on a tear–all credit to Paul Begala who takes it and laughs.
Thanks to Ran for the heads up
He also has a fine link to what Gary Busey and George Bush chatting might be like
Presidential Race
Rehnquist Hospitalized
I, of course, wish him well, but let’s add number 2 million as to why to vote for Kerry
Rockford Register Star
The president does not seem to learn from experience. He has shown himself to be a man who cannot admit error, and, therefore, cannot change course even in the face of disaster. He will not listen to advice he doesn’t want to hear, and he will not absorb facts that lead logically to conclusions he doesn’t want to acknowledge.
Incredibly, he still insists that the war in Iraq is going well. He vows to persevere on the same disastrous track. He will not concede that his rationale for going to war was mistaken, despite a mountain of evidence to the contrary. Instead, he keeps shifting the rationale to justify the war.
HE WILL NOT HOLD people accountable for a poorly planned occupation and poorly managed war. The troops — too few in number from the beginning — were not properly equipped for the mission. The situation grows more perilous and the death toll of American soldiers rises almost daily.
Now This is a Surpise
I didn’t expect the Sun-Times to endorse Kerry. But they did.
The president’s handling of the past year in Iraq — his dismissal of those who warned him about the difficulty of reorganizing the country, his neglect of deep problems that are costing American lives there — made us doubt his ability to bring our involvement there to a successful conclusion. And we became concerned by the secrecy of his subordinates such as Dick Cheney and John Ashcroft, coupled with an unnecessary disregard for some of our most cherished civil liberties.
If only their were More Chapmans
Chapman is in full riff why he’ll vote for Kerry
At the age of 50, I get few chances to try something entirely new. Come Nov. 2, I plan to take one of those rare opportunities. I’m going to vote for a Democrat for president.
I’ve never done it before, and I hope I never have to do it again. But President Bush has made an irresistible case against his own re-election. His first term has been one of the most dismal and costly failures of any presidency. His second promises to be even worse.
Funny enough–I had no idea Chapman is pro-life. Maybe I missed it, but his columns are pretty tight so all of his views don’t come out–and I’ve been reading him for 16 years probably.
I’ll take it
Kerry, it’s true, is worse than Bush on some issues. But he can probably pass a test that Bush has failed, namely, avoiding catastrophe.His presidency would also restore something valuable: divided government. Unlike Bush, Kerry would face a Congress dominated by the opposition party. As Cato Institute Executive Vice President David Boaz puts it, “Republicans wouldn’t give Kerry every bad thing he wants, and they do give Bush every bad thing he wants.”
Bad things have been the hallmark of the Bush presidency, from either a conservative or a liberal perspective. On Nov. 2, we can let him expand the grave damage he has done to the national interest–or we can hold him accountable. I’ll vote for John Kerry without high hopes or enthusiasm, but vote for him I will.
Imagine Walking and Turning on the TV to This
Oliver has the video up of Bush’s tirade.
I had just gotten back from taking the girls down to watch Kerry and Bush come in–the Firefighters had a truck for us to stand on and cheer them on which was a big hit with them. I was too exhausted to make the after rally, but it was a fun night.
Dred Scott==Roe v. Wade
And if you didn’t pick that up in Illinois you haven’t been paying attention to Alan Keyes.
For a rant on how Bush is completely confused on the Constitutional Law involvedin Dred Scott read Jack Balkin. For those that care about such matters, this is exactly why Bush shouldn’t be choosing Supreme Court Justices. The Taney Court was probably correct on the narrow decision given the, you know, language of the Constitution:
No Person held to Service or Labour in one State, under the Laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in Consequence of any Law or Regulation therein, be discharged from such Service or Labour, But shall be delivered up on Claim of the Party to whom such Service or Labour may be due
Dred Scott’s claim was that since he had been in free territory, he should no longer be property. The issue is difficult in terms of how to decide if one is a strict constructionist–but not in the way Bush thinks. Bush misses the fact that personal property rights in regards to slavery were guaranteed under the Constitution–Taney didn’t dream them up.
A man who doesn’t understand Dred Scott shouldn’t be President. And yes, everyone before him did understand it. The overreaching was claiming no African-American could be a citizen-not that slaveholders had property rights. This is why Thurgood Marshall called the doument flawed at its inception. It was. One can understand that historically and still celebrate it, but one would hope the President would know a case that no one should get out of a PoliSci 101 class without knowing.
Pat Buchanan was an interesting
selection for announcer on MSNBC at one of the most Jewish campuses not on the East Coast.
In other funny Buchanan moments, Ramsin–commenting below actually called in and was pretty much ignored. Buchanan then, bizarrely asked him if he was Assyrian and Ramsin said yes. The thing not many probably picked up on was that Assyrians largely ran the mob in St. Louis–and towards the end, not very well. But Buchanan spent a part of his time as a writer at the Globe Democrat in the 1960s and his reaction–even though a national call–seemed to harken back to that. Maybe I’m overanalyzing, but that’s how I took it.
Let Me Suggest
To the clown driving around the big truck with pictures of bloody fetuses in St. Louis on Friday–you weren’t doing your cause any good.
WTF is with Ginsberg and Buchanan on MSNBC
Simply being allowed to give lame talking points….