10/15/04
John Stewart rips Tucker Carlson a new one on 'Crossfire' (video - long download but worth it)
Man they sure did not see that one coming. This was one of the most amazing bits of television. Ever. Why is this a big deal? That is the interesting part. The reason we are so thirsty for this is because somewhere deep down we remember this is how it used to be. This SHOULD be the norm NOT the exception! People holding politicians feet to the flames and asking real questions. Not all the ass kissing and partisan hackery we see on all the networks. And here we have a comedian raising the level of discourse on CNN to a height it has not seen in years! It is actually a bit depressing. What we see in this video is the first real bit of honest news on CNN we have seen in a long time.
Here is the video. Pass this around. tell your friends. tell your neighbor. Tell your friends neighbors.
Here is the transcript. And here is a tid bit:
Tucker Carlson: You could've asked [Kerry] some real questions don't you think?
John Stewart: I don't think I had to. By the way, I also asked him: 'Were you in Cambodia?' but I didn't really care... cause, I don't care because I think it's stupid.. but my point is this - if your idea of confronting me is that I don't ask hard-hitting enough news questions, we're in bad shape fellas.
Later, in response to Begalla's attempt to justify Crossfire's confrontational style by saying it's a debate show, Stewart is having none of it
John Stewart: No, no, no.. to do a denate, that would be great, but that's like saying pro wrestling is a show about athletic competition.
Meanwhile Tucker Carlson realizes Stewart is about to take over the show, and with Begalla suddenly AWOL, he'd have to be the one to put Stewart back in his place. (Bad idea).
Tucker Carlson: I'm sorry. You're a good comedian. I think your lectures are boring...
John Stewart: Yeah, now this is theater. How old are you?
Tucker Carlson: Thirty-five
John Stewart: And you wear a bow-tie....
Tucker Carlson: Yes I do.
John Stewart: You're doing theater when you should be doing debate. It's not honest. What you do is not honest. What you do is partisan hackery.
Tucker Carlson: You had John Kerry on your show and you sniff his throne, and you're accusing us of partisan hackery?
John Stewart: Absolutely. You're on CNN! The show that leads into me is puppets making crank phone calls. What is wrong with you!
Tucker Carlson: I'm just saying you had this marvelous opprtunity not to be this guys 'butt boy' and you go ahead and be his 'butt boy'. I mean it's embarrassing.
John Stewart: Yes I was absolutely his 'butt boy'. You wouldn't believe what he ate two weeks ago. You have a responsibility to the public discourse and you fail miserable.
Tucker Carlson: You need to get a job at a journalism school.
John Stewart: You need to go to one!
Tucker Carlson: Wait. I thought you were going to be funny. Come on. Be funny.
John Stewart: No. No. I'm not going to be your monkey.
Tucker Carlson: Well, I'm just saying, there's no reason for you -- when you have this marvelous opportunity not to be the guy's butt boy, to go ahead and be his butt boy. Come on. It's embarrassing.
John Stewart: I was absolutely his butt boy. I was so far -- you would not believe what he ate two weeks ago.
Tucker Carlson: I wouldn't want to eat with you, man. That's horrible.
John Stewart: I know. And you won't. But the thing I want to get to...
Begala: Which candidate do you suppose would provide you better material if he won?
John Stewart: Mr. T. I think he'd be the funniest. I don't...
John Stewart: The only way it would be harder is if his administration is less absurd than this one. So, in that case, if it's less absurd, then, yes, I think it would be harder.
But, I mean, it would be hard to top this group, quite frankly.
John Stewart: In terms of absurdity and their world matching up to the one that -- you know, it was interesting. President Bush was saying, John Kerry's rhetoric doesn't match his record.
But I've heard President Bush describe his record. His record doesn't match his record.
Tucker Carlson: I do think you're more fun on your show. Just my opinion.
Tucker Carlson: OK, up next, Jon Stewart goes one on one with his fans...
John Stewart: You know what's interesting, though? You're as big a dick on your show as you are on any show.
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Jordan
10/13/04
Round 9. Ding!
Boom!
http://www.moveonpac.org/10weeks/video/reiner/small/index.shtml
Pow!
https://www.moveonpac.org/donate/sheehan.html
Biff!
http://www.moveon.org/foxad-QT.html
Bam!
http://www.moveon.org/censure/caughtonvideo/
Here
comes the knockout punch....
Ka-Pow!
http://www.mydd.com/files/admin/TimRyan_Medium.mov
- Jordan
GOP shenanigans
Investigation of voter registration fraud
Employees of a private voter registration company allege that hundreds, perhaps thousands of voters who may think they are registered will be rudely surprised on election day. The company claims hundreds of registration forms were thrown in the trash.
Anyone who has recently registered or re-registered to vote outside a mall or grocery store or even government building may be affected.
The I-Team has obtained information about an alleged widespread pattern of potential registration fraud aimed at democrats. Thee focus of the story is a private registration company called Voters Outreach of America, AKA America Votes.
The out-of-state firm has been in Las Vegas for the past few months, registering voters. It employed up to 300 part-time workers and collected hundreds of registrations per day, but former employees of the company say that Voters Outreach of America only wanted Republican registrations.
Two former workers say they personally witnessed company supervisors rip up and trash registration forms signed by Democrats.
--snip--
The company has been largely, if not entirely funded, by the Republican National Committee. Similar complaints have been received in Reno where the registrar has asked the FBI to investigate.
How can Republicans claim to be for free elections in Iraq when they are trying to suppress votes here in America?
- Jordan
10/12/04
Now that is a powerful ad. Watch it. If you can, please donate to Operation Truth to get this on the air.
- Jordan
Get Mad!
Boycotting Sinclair broadcasting
The conservative-leaning Sinclair Broadcast Group, whose television outlets reach nearly a quarter of the nation's homes with TV, is ordering its stations to preempt regular programming just days before the Nov. 2 election to air a film that attacks Sen. John F. Kerry's activism against the Vietnam War, network and station executives familiar with the plan said Friday.
Sinclair's programming plan, communicated to executives in recent days and coming in the thick of a close and intense presidential race, is highly unusual even in a political season that has been marked by media controversies.
Sinclair has told its stations — many of them in political swing states such as Ohio and Florida — to air "Stolen Honor: Wounds That Never Heal," sources said. The film, funded by Pennsylvania veterans and produced by a veteran and former Washington Times reporter, features former POWs accusing Kerry — a decorated Navy veteran turned war protester — of worsening their ordeal by prolonging the war. Sinclair will preempt regular prime-time programming from the networks to show the film, which may be classified as news programming, according to TV executives familiar with the plan.
They are in effect ordering stations to run this 90 minute swift boat vet ad 'Stolen Honor'. Are they giving time ot the kerry campaign? Of course not.
So what can we do about this blatantly ugly and frankly illegal move? Plenty. First sign this petition. Then go check out The Left Coaster who has some ideas. Then check out boycottsinclairbroadcasting.com
Once you have done all that you can begin operation "boycott the Sinclair Investors":
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This IS the good fight. Keep on keepin' on.
- Jordan
What
are you wearing to the polls?
10/8/04
Did Bush pass the global test?
Just a little pre-debate humor for ya......
- Jordan
- Jordan
Kerry takes lead in electoral votes
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Good
times.... Why does the truth hate America? |
People
have been watching debates. Good.-
Jordan
Bush set to defend the economy in tonights debate
Not an easy thing to do concidering the new job numbers came out today. And it does not look good at all
September job growth weaker
U.S. employers added 96,000 jobs in September while the unemployment rate stayed unchanged, according to a government report Friday that came in weaker than Wall Street expectations.
The Labor Department report showed a slower pace of hiring than the revised reading of 128,000 jobs added in August. The consensus forecast according to economists surveyed by Briefing.com was for 150,000 new jobs; a survey by Reuters had a range of estimates from a 10,000 loss to a 200,000 gain.
- Jordan
10/6/04
I guess some people watched the debate
Current Battle Ground States - Zogby
- Jordan
We were right! Again!
CIA
report finds no Zarqawi-Saddam link
A CIA report has found no conclusive evidence that former Iraqi President
Saddam Hussein harbored Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, which the Bush administration
asserted before the invasion of Iraq.
“There’s no conclusive evidence the Saddam Hussein regime
had harbored Zarqawi,” a U.S. official said on Tuesday about the
CIA findings.
Official:
No WMD stockpiles in Iraq
Contradicting the main argument for a war that has cost more than 1,000
American lives, the top U.S. arms inspector reported Wednesday that
he found no evidence that Iraq produced any weapons of mass destruction
after 1991. He also concluded that Saddam Hussein's weapons capability
weakened during a dozen years of U.N. sanctions before the U.S. invasion
last year.
Two
for two
Last
night we saw why our fearless leader, George Bush, refused to answer
questions without Cheney at his side. This debate was much closer than
the debate between Bush and Kerry. Where Bush seemed to squirm under
the pressure, Cheney was strong like a bulldog.
In my opinion Edwards won the debate last night, because like is often
the case with Democrats, he had the facts on his side. However, if I
was average Joe Shmoe, and did not have all the facts in my head, it
would have looked much more like a tie. But Cheney didn't fool me. I
knew that all of his perceived biggest success moments in the debate
were straight up lies. And unless you knew the facts, it did indeed
look like cheney was the principle, scolding a tardy child. Cheney has
this uncanny jedi mind-trick that was in serious effect last night.
He has this way of spouting out a string of lies, and making them sound
like solid fact. Case in popint. Claiming
Edwards has a poor attendance record in the senate Cheny made this claim:
"Now, in my capacity as vice president, I am the president of Senate, the presiding officer. I'm up in the Senate most Tuesdays when they're in session.""Now, in my capacity as vice president, I am the president of Senate, the presiding officer. I'm up in the Senate most Tuesdays when they're in session."
However when you check the actual record you see that Cheney just lied to America. Again.
These
attacks did put Edwards on the defensive a bit but, anyone who bothers
to check into the details of the issue will be rewarded with the discovery
that Edwards was correct.
Edwards did better than I expected on the foreign policy half of the
debate, making some solid headway in a very important area. The Bush
team relies so heavily on the concept that only they can protect our
country from terror, that every-time Kerry and Edwards win a a round
in this area it is brutal blow to the Bush team.
There were a few classic moment that will come back to haunt cheney.
In what at the moment seemed like a very effective attack at Edwards,
Cheney claimed to have never met Edwards until he walked on the stage.
The implication was Edwards had spent little time on the senate floor
and that his experience was lacking. Once again what seemed like a strong
attack evaporated once the facts are known. If Cheney has never met
Edwards, someone who certainly looks a lot like Edwards has. See the
photos for yourself here,
and here.
Ouch. Bad Cheney.
Another classic was when cheney said "Now, in my capacity as vice
president, I am the president of Senate, the presiding officer. I'm
up in the Senate most Tuesdays when they're in session." Once again
he is attacking Edwards lack of a senate record. Once again his favorite
weapon is the lie. According to the Congressional Record, Dick Cheney
did not preside over a single Tuesday Senate session in 2001. Not one.
See for yourself.
Yet another priceless moment came when Cheney was trying to defend himself
against the Halliburton charges. He asked viewers to go to a site called
factcheck.com, where he said viewers would find the truth in Cheney's
favor. Ooops. Serious ooops. When you go to factcheck.com you see it
is a site owned by George Sorros, an avid supporter of the Kerry campaign.
When you get there you see this message:
This is the most important election of my lifetime. I have never been heavily involved in partisan politics but these are not normal times. That is why I am sharing this message. I have been demonized by the Bush campaign but I hope you will give me a hearing.
President Bush ran on the platform of a ‘humble’ foreign policy in 2000. If we re-elect him now, we endorse the Bush doctrine of preemptive action and the invasion of Iraq, and we will have to live with the consequences. As I shall try to show, we are facing a vicious circle of escalating violence with no end in sight. But if we repudiate the Bush policies at the polls, we shall have a better chance to regain the respect and support of the world and to break the vicious circle.
The ouch-factor on this is through the roof. Cheney just gave a huge bit of free advertising to the anti-Bush movement. What Cheney meant to say was to go to factcheck.org. So close yet so far. When you get to factcheck.org you see this gem:
Cheney got our domain name wrong -- calling us "FactCheck.com" -- and wrongly implied that we had rebutted allegations Edwards was making about what Cheney had done as chief executive officer of Halliburton. In fact, we did post an article pointing out that Cheney hasn't profited personally while in office from Halliburton's Iraq contracts, as falsely implied by a Kerry TV ad. But Edwards was talking about Cheney's responsibility for earlier Halliburton troubles. And in fact, Edwards was mostly right.
Stick
a fork in him. He's done.
Another of my favorite bits in the debate was this:
Edwards: The vice president, I'm surprised to hear him talk about records. When he was one of 435 members of the United States House, he was one of 10 to vote against Head Start, one of four to vote against banning plastic weapons that can pass through metal detectors.
He voted against the Department of Education. He voted against funding for Meals on Wheels for seniors. He voted against a holiday for Martin Luther King. He voted against a resolution calling for the release of Nelson Mandela in South Africa.
But
what about the spin? Well many pundits called it a draw, many said cheney
won foreign policy and Edwards won domestic issues. However polls taken
after the debate show a HUGE Edwards win in the eyes of the public.
Interestingly enough CNN
had a poll up after the debate that quickly had Edwards winning
78% to Cheney's paltry 18%.
For some reason that poll quickly
was taken down. Even worse the headlines on the front page say
"Early polls split on debate victor." Wow a 78% - 18% split.
It's a CRUSHING tie! But hey! CNN just put up a new
poll this morning! So go be heard before they take that one
down as well.
All in all Edwards did good. All this is erased this friday when the
two big boys take the stage again for part two of this three part debate
smack down. Be sure to tune in.
Heres
a treat (Real video clip) for reading this far. It's a video
from the DNC who quickly complied some cheney lies for you to watch.
Here is the transcript of the deabte in full
- Jordan
What
are you sending Cheney for Xmass?
10/5/04
They were right
The
Bush team has a special hatred they cultivate for liberals, hippies
and the French. For some reason they just love to bash these groups.
I often wonder what these people have done to piss this administration
off so bad?
Well in a related tory here is a pop quiz. Below there are 2 groups
of people. One group was right about Iraq. The other was wrong. One
group was correct about the WMD, the Iraqi nukes, and the Al Queda -
Saddam ties, the other group was wrong. One group has proved they have
credibility and foresight, the other group has been proven they are
not interested in truth and are more than willing to lie to achieve
certain goals. So which of these groups of people should we listen to
next time?:
GROUP
A
GROUP
B
If you picked group A you are correct. The French, the hippies, the protesters, all of them have proven time and time again to be more reliable when it comes to understanding war. Group B on the other hand has proven over and over that the facts are not important, they will push an egenda forward regardless of financial cost and loss of life. Further more they will claim you are un-american if you dont blindly support them in any thing you do.
Something to remember for the next time the Bush team wants us to support a war. The next time Bush tell you we are liberating a country and will have our troops greeted with flowers, go check in and see what the real flower children have to say about it.
- Jordan
What are YOU wearing to the polls?
Backtracking
Mr. Rumsfeld seems to see a lot of nuance these days. I think Bush has a word for that.
Speaking about the possibility that there were ties between AL Queda and Saddam Hussein, Rumsfeld had this to day:
FLIP
"To my knowledge, I have not seen any strong, hard evidence that links the two,"
Then, only hours after the appearance:
FLOP
"A question I answered today at an appearance before the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) regarding ties between al Qaeda and Iraq regrettably was misunderstood.
"I have acknowledged since September 2002 that there were ties between al Qaeda and Iraq."
Seems these people can't get on the the same page. Then we have Bremer who announced that there were not enough troops in Iraq. There's this from CNN today:
FLIP
"We paid a big price for not stopping it because it established an atmosphere of lawlessness," Bremer said. "We never had enough troops on the ground."
A senior Defense Department official said that Bremer never asked for more troops and expressed annoyance the ambassador appeared to be second-guessing the advice of military officials. Bremer stepped down after the June 28 handover to an interim Iraqi government.
The,
as always happens when these people make the mistake of letting the
truth slip out, Bremer went into damage control mode , claiming that
he released the statement this morning saying that when he stated that
they needed more troops in Iraq, he only meant in the immediate aftermath
of the fall of Baghdad in order to prevent the looting.
That sounds good until you read this:
FLOP
"The single most important change -- the one thing that would have improved the situation -- would have been having more troops in Iraq at the beginning and throughout... Although I raised this issue a number of times with our government, I should have been even more insistent."
The Bush team is working damage control but the damage is already done.
- Jordan
10/4/04
The elephant in the middle of the room
Just to pass teh time read this great interview from CNN with the creator of 'Boondocks.'
- Jordan
Unfair. Unbalanced.
- Jordan
Throwing a debtae party? Part favors!
10/1/04
From the desk of Democratic Underground
comes this bit of idiocy from CBS. Take a look at the screen shot
First
link is: Experts
Rate Debate a Draw
Second link is: Poll: Uncommitted
Voters Say Kerry Won
- Jordan
Transcript of Kerry kicking W's ass in debate
Last
nights debate was, for some a first chance to see the two candidates
side by side. The differences between the two were night and day. Kerry
came off as well versed, firm, presidential, and well spoken. Bush on
the other hand was very defensive. He seemed put off by the fact that
he should have to answer questions and was often repeating himself and
at a lack for words. Bush
seemed frustrated
(video clip).
And here is the kicker, If Kerry won the foreign policy debate - Bush's
perceived greatest strength - he is going to absolutely lay waste to
him in the other debates. And the Cheney / Edward's debate? Please.
Edward's will trounce Chneney.
Bush often seemed to be unable to fill a 2 minute time slot without
going over and over the safe talking points. He also made a few huge
mistakes. On the subject of homeland security, an issue of great importance,
he flubbed big time. Kerry had just laid out a huge list of Bush failures
in this area, and given a chance ti respond Bush said
"I don't think we want to get to how he's going to pay for all
these promises."
Excuse me? Did he just imply that the safety of the american people
is not worthy of the same kind of spending we have seen for the war
on Iraq? That won't go over well for voters who are getting the bill
for the several hundred BILLION we are spending on this war.
Much of that money is unaccounted for. And you want the tax cuts for
the richest people in our country to be permanent? Big mistake. I guess
there is no money for homeland security. But I thought you were making
America safer Mr. Preznit!
After watching the debate I turned on to see how the pundits were spinning
it. All of them gave kerry the win. Even Fox "news" was giving
props to Kerry. Heres a few quotes from Fox last night:
"There was a chance that the president would knock Kerry out of the race tonight. ... I think Kerry survived and I think he did pretty well tonight. Kerry was forceful and articulate," said William Kristol, editor of the Weekly Standard.
"Kerry did a pretty good job of making the case that the invasion of Iraq was wrong."
Kondracke said Bush began to stumble as Kerry stopped being nervous and became more forceful. "The president sighed a lot in this debate and he seemed tired," Kondracke said.
Dick Morris said, "Bush was as unfocused, undisciplined, unenergetic ... as he was during the pre-primary debates in 2000." Morris, a strong critic of Kerry's policy positions said, "I got the feeling Bush was distracted; Bush didn't answer questions quickly, and he stumbled all over himself."
My
fiance noticed while watching fox, that right after the debate, on the
crawl at the bottom was an announcement that the terror level had just
been raised. Imagine my surprise. Booo! Bush playing politics with terrorism.
Even the conservative bloggers seems shocked. Heres some quotes:
"If you want to be seen as having no credibility, if you want to be regarded as a blind cheerleader, then go ahead and say that it was a draw or that Bush won."
"I prayed so hard that God would be with our president this evening. But I have begun to wonder whether if he has been abandoned now or not. I hope not."
Here is a look at the polls taken after the debate. Notice how one of these kids is doing their own thing. Fox is the only one who even has it close. But we aready know that the Faux crowd has proven beyond any doubt that they are pretty out of touch with reality.
Out of touch:
A nice 5 minute compilation of Bush making an ass of himself
http://www.pleasurecaptains.com/favor/howsmall.html
Transcript of Kerry kicking W's ass in debate
- Jordan
9/30/04
Knock em dead kerry.
How can Bush run when he has nothing positive to run on?
fear:
http://home.earthlink.net/~houval/gopconstrm.mov
I see stupid people
So
last night I logged on to the Fox "News" web site. I check
in now and again to see what kind of idiocy they are doing in the name
of journalism. Know thy enemy. You know the deal. So they have an online
poll and the question is "Do you think Saddam was involved in the
911 attacks."
Now I recall after 911 and Bush began his 4 month journey on his 'sit
and spin', a similar poll was conducted where the majority of people
polled though that, yes, Saddam was involved in the attacks. No surprise
since Bush was linking Saddam and Al Queda in every speech he was making.
I mean heck he even set up a link between the two in his
letter to the Speaker of the House of Representatives asking for
the authority to go to war on Iraq.
I have reluctantly concluded, along with other coalition leaders, that only the use of armed force will accomplish these objectives and restore international peace and security in the area. I have also determined that the use of armed force against Iraq is consistent with the United States and other countries continuing to take the necessary actions against international terrorists and terrorist organizations, including those nations, organiza-tions, or persons who planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001. United States objectives also support a transition to democracy in Iraq, as contemplated by the Iraq Liberation Act of 1998 (Public Law 105-338).
So here is the poll as I saw it on thursday night at 9pm (click on image for full size version):
As you can see the number is still showing that many people still believe such a connection exists. Even with no proof. Even when Bush admitted it wasn't so.
What can be learned from this? O Reilly said the John Stewart audience was a bunch of stoned slackers. Well that may be, but they aren't stupid. What does this say about the state of Fox "News"? It is clear that their audience hasn't learned anything. Now it is a FACT that there is no connection between Saddam and the 911 attacks, so what Jeb Shmoe from Kentucky thinks is not that important. I would be honestly frightened to poll these people with the question "Is the planet Earth the 3rd planet from the sun?."
Also note how the poll was constructed. They have 4 possible answers to a yes or no question. When I clicked on the poll I was sure that the highest number would be under the "yes but I no longer believe that" option. I was prepared to have my faith in humanity restored. No such luck. Only 2% changed their minds on this important issue. The most astonishing thing is that it exposes their misinforming their viewers. If they were truly interested in Sgt. Joe Friday's version of the truth "just the facts, Maam" they have just stripped themselves of any semblance of being a news organization. The reality is they just don't care. Fox "News" should have seen the results of this poll and said "Oh my lord! How can our viewers be so misinformed on this?! We should rectify the right now with a special report!" Not going to happen. Fox has proven themselves to be blatantly uninterested in the truth. "We opine you recline."
Fox seem to have a trademark on "hey, I'm just sayin'" broadcasting.
"I'm not accusing Kerry of not being a war hero- of course that would be wrong- I'm just saying there's some people raising questions."
"I don't believe there would be another terrorist attack- worse than 9/11- if Bush wasn't elected. I'm just saying it might not be wise to change courses in mid-stream."
Honestly, it'd be funnier if it weren't so damn frightening.
- Jordan
9/29/04
A mothers tears
Please take the time to watch this ad. Then if you were touched and have some extra scratch donate to these people. And pass the link to the ad on to all your friends. Especially the Bush supporters
- Jordan
Mailbag
Reader Andy points out this story by CBS on GWB's top ten flip flops. A great article that makes clear that most, if not all, of the flaws Bush claims exist in Kerry, are even more present in Bush himself. Just how many thousands have dies because of Kerry's flip flops? I think Bush leads Kerry on that sad score.
I
can hardly believe my eyes! The media is telling both sides of the
story!? Will wonders never cease?
Hopefully this is the beginning of the end.
- Andy
Heres some tid bits from the article:
Bush's Top Ten Flip-Flops
"We found the weapons of mass destruction. We found biological laboratories."(May 29, 2003)
"I recognize we didn't find the stockpiles [of weapons] we all thought were there." (Sept. 9, 2004)
President Bush
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Announcing the invasion of Iraq on March 19, 2003, Mr. Bush said, “Intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no doubt that the Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised.”
Two months into the war, on May 29, 2003, Mr. Bush said weapons of mass destruction had been found.
“We found the weapons of mass destruction. We found biological laboratories,” Mr. Bush told Polish television. “For those who say we haven't found the banned manufacturing devices or banned weapons, they're wrong, we found them."
On Sept. 9, 2004, in Pennsylvania, Mr. Bush said: “I recognize we didn't find the stockpiles [of weapons] we all thought were there.”
Nation Building and the War in Iraq
During the 2000 campaign, George W. Bush argued against nation building and foreign military entanglements. In the second presidential debate, he said: "I'm not so sure the role of the United States is to go around the world and say, 'This is the way it's got to be.'"
The United States is currently involved in nation building in Iraq on a scale unseen since the years immediately following World War II.
During the 2000 election, Mr. Bush called for U.S. troops to be withdrawn from the NATO peacekeeping mission in the Balkans. His administration now cites such missions as an example of how America must "stay the course."
Iraq and the Sept. 11 Attacks
In a press conference in September 2002, six months before the invasion of Iraq, President Bush said, “you can't distinguish between al Qaeda and Saddam when you talk about the war on terror... they're both equally as bad, and equally as evil, and equally as destructive.”
In September of 2004, Mr. Bush said: “We've had no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved with September 11th." Though he added that “there's no question that Saddam Hussein had al Qaeda ties,” the statement seemingly belied earlier assertions that Saddam and al Qaeda were “equally bad.”
The Sept. 11 commission found there was no evidence Saddam was linked to the 9/11 attacks, which killed nearly 3,000 people.
- Jordan
9/28/04
Can you believe the polls?
Gallup Is At It Again - Yesterday's National Poll Had 12% GOP Bias
Gallup has done it again. After supplying CNN and USA Today with a poll two weeks ago that showed a double-digit Bush lead amongst likely voters that turned out to have a significant bias in its sample favoring the GOP, Gallup did it again yesterday.
Except that yesterday, they not only did it again, they apparently felt that a 7% GOP bias wasn't good enough. So they perpetrated the same fraud upon the media (including their partners CNN and USAT) and voters and this time used a 12% GOP bias in their likely voter screen. I kid you not.
- Jordan
9/24/04
Turn your speakers on
And
click the link below. This was made by a friend of mines roommate.
He just finished up the accompanying movie and it literally brought tears
to my eyes. Even more amazing – this is his singing/songwriting
debut – yep, first time out of the gates and we get this!! (And
he performed at this year’s DNC). If you know people, send this
to them. If you don't know people, get out of the house, meet people, then
send this to them. If you know people on the right, send it to them twice.
There is no way you can watch this and NOT be moved. Send it to your friends.
Send it to your enemies. If you have a web site please link to it. Every
bit helps.
I didnt know I was UnAmerican:
http://www.sharedvoice.org/unamerican/
- Jordan
The United States Senate Democrats is a wonderful new tool. Noticed Kos had a link to it and checked it out. This site is a great tool. This is a fact filled web page that is the tool you need to win any argument on any topic. Get information on the Bush national security record, The Bush health care record, The Bush education record, the list goes on. It is the cost-co of Bush facts. We are talking serious bulk here. Just a quick dabble in the sites extensive resource center gave me these great facts on the Bush job record:
* More than 1.5 million private-sector jobs have been lost under President Bush, compared to nearly 21 million private-sector jobs created under President Clinton.
* The best month for job growth during the Bush Administration would not even rank in the top 10 months of job growth during the Clinton Administration.
* Manufacturing jobs have been lost in 37 out of 43 months under George Bush. In all, 2.7 million manufacturing jobs have been lost.
* 8 million Americans are unemployed, 34% more than when President Bush took office. And that number does not include discouraged workers and the underemployed.
* Although the economy is finally starting to recover some of the job losses suffered between 2000 and 2003, George Bush is still on track to have the worst job-creation record since Herbert Hoover during the Great Depression.
* George Bush would need to create over 700,000 jobs every month for the remainder of his term just to match the job record under his father, who himself had the worst job creation rate since the Great Depression.
* Long-term unemployment has more than doubled under Bush.
So
go check it out
- Jordan
http://www.msnbc.com/comics/editorial_content.asp?sFile=jd040924
9/23/04
Press
has operation to re-insert backbone
Just in time for Bush's press conference with Allawi (which is going to
be the last one Bush gives before the election I bet)
The press found the balls they had been missing. Compare this to the Kerry
press conference the other day. Put aside for a second that Allawi seems
to be more in command of the english language than Bush. The answers Bush
gave to some of the hard questions had Bush sweating big time. Bring the
debates on!
An NBC reporter asked many times "Do you understand why Americans don't
believe you when you say Iraq is doing well?" It was hilarious.
John King of CNN is asked why he said the NIE was "just guessing"
about the situation on the ground. Bush just admitted that he used "an
unfortunate word". Can we go ahead and call that a flip flop?
CBS News called him on saying that "just a handful" of insurgents
want to kill people in Iraq.
Terry Moran just asked "You are speaking for the Iraqi people, but
polls show that they are dissatisfied with the occupation. How can you speak
for these people?" Bush screwed the pooch big time with his answer
of "I saw a poll that said the right track/wrong track in Iraq was
better than here in America. It was pretty darn strong. I mean, the people
see a better future."
Could he BE more out of touch? Did he just say that Iraq, which by all accounts
is FUBAR, is better of than America? Why yes he did. Expect to hear that
one repeated quite a bit. DNC are you taping this? I expect an ad created
with this footage ASAP!
He also repeated the lie that 10 million Afghans are registered to vote
(when there are only 9.8 eligible Afghan voters).
Then, "I hoped we could resolve it (Iraq) diplomatically." -gwb
Other great moments include:
