Election 2004 Archives

Next, We have a 'legacy pledge' from Beantown...

Bluto: From now on, your Delta Tau Chi name is "Hammerhead".
Kerry:(looking puzzled) but why?
Bluto: (Burp!) WHY NOT!!!!

After seeing this picture, I can safely say that for the first time in my life, I feel sorry for John Kerry.

Truly, Deeply, Sorry. Just look at the man, all this time and Ive been picking on a cripple.

His poor mother, how she mustve cried...

Posted @ June 07, 2005 03:26 PM | Election 2004 | Comments (0)

It's Over.

The Senate is Republican.
The House is Republican.
The President got a majority of the popular vote.
The President has a clear electoral victory.

At least I think so, but it appears at this late hour a hideous infectious virus that manifests itself by parasitically taking over the bodies of their human hosts to turn them into "Lawyers" has broken into the Democrat party.

Instead of acting like men, the Democrats have decided to act like lawyers. Let's just be clear here, there is no win out there for Kerry to get. At best, Kerry could get a tie, the tie puts it into the House, the House which is a Republican institution will vote Bush to be President. Golly wouldnt that be fun.

Ohio is not Florida. It's not even close enough to get a recount. In 2000 5 states were close enough to require a recount,Florida was just one of them. No state met that requirement this year. Those 'provisional ballots'? Those are not absentee ballots. Provsional ballots are for people who screw up and go to the wrong polling location. You vote, its not counted until they resolve your legitimacy. In a word, all but a small set are crap con jobs.

Lawyers. Dontcha just hate em?

You are correct when you say that my prediction of 381 EV's to Bush didn't pan out. What do I know about elections?, I make databases for a living, I'm not an expert on electoral behavior. It was a guess, and now that weve seen how it all comes out, the smart set didnt do a whole lot better than I did.

It was a great election until the very end. big turnout, no whining about 'voter apathy'. Both sides threw everything they had into it. Very well played, no riots, shenanigans kept to a minimum. A good time was had by all.

The people spoke. They voted for Bush.

I would gladly give the Dems 1000 dollars in cash if Kerry would concede. He wont. The Dems will spend the next 4 years running around spinning lies about this election. Disenfranchisement, illegal votes, anything and everything to take away the legitimacy of this election.

Democracy is not about getting your way, it's about being asked. Everyone who voted yesterday won in this election. I don't think I met anyone yesterday who could vote who didnt go to the polls. That's probably the first time in my life that has ever happened.

It's Over. Let's "Move On" now, shall we?

A NOTE TO MY DEMOCRAT FRIENDS:

It's not that Bush couldn't be beat, its that he couldnt be beat by this guy. Senators make bad candidates. Howard Dean would have done a better job, He atleast believed the stuff that he said.

Here's how you win elections in America.

1. Shop at Wal-Mart. Get to know the people who shop there.
2. Follow Nascar racing. Learn to like it.
3. Buy and drive a pickup.
4. Visit Home Depot on Saturday morning. Buy Lumber. Make something.
5. Have Children.
6. Raise them yourself.
7. Find a Church that you like, visit frequently.
8. Buy an American Flag, Attach it to your house.
9. Learn to operate a gun. Consider buying one.
10. Start your own Business. Hire someone. Make a Profit.

And most important, in a time of war, never ever go against the family.

UPDATE II: As of 8:15 - Kerry has called the President to concede.

"With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan--to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations. Abraham Lincoln Second Inagural Address.

No gloating. Shake the hands of your countrymen, no matter how they voted. It was a good fight fairly won.

UPDATE III: Apparently, there were riots. (Not Safe For Kids).Boy, do I miss working in San Francisco. No really, I do! Douglas Adams once said that San Francisco is the only city on Earth where space aliens can live openly in public and no one would notice. Spend any amount of time there and you know what he means. There are just some ideas so silly that only an intellectual can accept them, and in San Francisco, everthing that is forbidden is required and nothing is too far out or too forbidden or out ofconsideration.

I once heard an open discussion on the validity of cannibalism while I worked in San Francisco. Really.

Posted @ November 03, 2004 12:00 AM | Election 2004 | Comments (8)

Earn This

There’s nothing more to be said, I have nothing else to give you. This is one of those ‘day of days’ that we read about in the history books only we are actually living it. None of you will forget where you were tonight and what you are going to do tomorrow. Some say the world is watching for what happens here tomorrow, but I say they’ve been watching us for 228 years.

There were those in the days after 9/11 that New York should cancel its Mayoral election.

It did not.

There were those who doubted that we could ever again have public events in safety.

We did.

There were those who said we would always be looking over our shoulder that our minority Arab populations would be in camps.

They are not.

There were those who wondered in 2001 that the election in 2004 could ever take place.

And here we are.

It’s not like we’ve been underestimated before. It happens all the time. For 228 years, the world has always bet against the American people.

In 1777, what was then the worlds greatest army was stopped in its tracks by our back country irregulars in Saratoga New York. For the first time, the world took notice.

In 1789 the King of England said that "If George Washington would refuse to be king and accept the crown he would be the greatest man alive".

He did, and he was.

In 1860, the nation began a civil war that would the country deeply and the world said it could never be put back together again
In 1864, then unpopular president Lincoln after 3 years of the most bloody war in the nations entire history was reelected. The president said “ charity towards all and malice towards none” and allowed the rebels to go home with their weapons and honor intact.
The pundits were wrong. The south was defeated the union was saved and Lincoln was re-elected.

In 1944,Free men of the worlds democracies boarded small flat bottom boats and drove into the surf towards the maw of Nazi occupied Europe. The pundits said we would lose, that free men in democracies could not stand against the supermen of fascism.

They were wrong.

In 1945, the world said Germany and Japan could never be democratized and should be de-industrialized.

They were wrong.

In 1952, both countries held free elections.

In 1950, The Soviets and the Koreans did not believe that Americans would come to the aid of a small backwater country in Asia.

They were wrong.

In 2004 we are still supporting that country and through our support and their hard work have become a great economic power while their enemies to the north are a hellish concentration camp incapable of feeding their own people.

In 1980, The world said that Reagan was a madman for facing down the Soviets.

They were wrong.

In 1990, the Soviet Union ceased to be.

In 2001 we were attacked by religious psychotics and many around the world said that we would never be the same; that we would have to learn to live under threat of terror and that we would have to remove or limit our freedoms. Many said that we would have to learn to accommodate the Terrorists as they had done in their counties.

They were wrong.

In 2004, we are actively dismantling the structures of world terror.
In 2004, we are holding baseball games, football games, political rallies and conventions in major cities.
In 2004, we are voting for President.

Look how far we’ve all come.

My friends, fellow citizens. We are still here.
Despite all that has been thrown at us, We are still free men and women living in a Republic based in a democratic tradition. We have beaten the odds just by getting out of bed in the morning.

People toss about the phrase “Greatest Generation’ to describe the people who survived the great depression, then went on to fight the fascists and finally put on fight against the communists. I agree that they are certainly great, but I am here to tell you that I’m proud to be in this time, in this generation, in this struggle against tyranny.

Somewhere on the border of Iraq, sits an American, Brit, Pole, Italian or Aussie with a pair of binoculars looking across to Iran.

Somewhere on the border of Iraq, sits an American, Brit, Pole, Italian or Aussie with a pair of binoculars looking across to Syria.

Somewhere in Afghanistan an American, Brit, Pole, Aussie, German, Frenchman are looking across the hills of Warziristan.

Somewhere in Korea sits an American and South Korean watching across the border at the North Koreans.

On the other side of those borders sit worried packs of people who are living in fear.
Not just fear of American tanks, wire-guided munitions and warships the size of city blocks.

They live in fear of common every day Americans who are exercising their right to vote and the consequences that it will surely bring to their tyrannical masters.

Freedom is on the march. It is this generation that will see Gods gift to mankind, the enfranchisement of the entire human populace with the rights of citizenship, the right to vote, made into a reality. This will be the first generation without the existence of state-sponsored slavery.

The world thinks we cannot accomplish this goal.

They are wrong.

Tomorrow when we stand at the polls, we stand with the men and women of Afghanistan, we stand with the people of Iraq, Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and yes, Palestine.

Freedom is on the march.

Once the world said that Afghanistan could never have elections and that the population would reject western ways.

They were wrong.

The people in Iraq, Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and yes, Palestine are waiting for us to cast their vote tomorrow.

You are citizens of a democracy. Most of you came about it by birth, but now its time you earned your place in it. Show the world what free people do when put to the test. Show them what your grandfather showed the fascists; show them what your father showed the Soviets. Show them that free people are the most powerful force on earth.

The world thinks you will turn your backs on the poor and disenfranchised.

They are wrong. This is the “greatest generation”.

We’ve overcome a great deal just to get here. We’ve lost some of us along the way, but we are not going to stop now. We will win this fight because we don’t want our grandchildren to be living under the thumb of terror. We will live in freedom. The world will live in freedom.

I’ve got nothing else to say. Go do your duty, to yourself and mankind.

In the words of Captain Miller:

“I’ll see you on the beach...”.

Posted @ November 01, 2004 09:21 PM | Election 2004 | Comments (10)

Final Prediction - Election 2004

Based on momentum, based on polling trend lines, based on highly effective GOP GOTV actions, based on candidate travel patterns over the next 4 days and finally my own impressions based on locals that I know in many key states. My own polling sample is not all Republicans, in fact most of them are Democrats. None of the Democrats are upbeat about their chances, including two who are working for the Democrats in Washington state. Watch the background and crowd scenes at each of the rallys and you can see what I mean. Bush rallies - jazzed and excited. Kerry rallies look like they are trying out for parts in "the Grapes of Wrath". Although a few of the Democrats I know are voting for Bush, not one of the remaining sample is voting for Kerry as much as they are voting against Bush. No one on either side of my sample audience has a good thing to say about Kerry. Typical voter behavior is that people dont vote against as much as they vote for. Every single one of the traditional Democratic constituencies is under assault by Bush. In each one, Bush is getting a significant uptick over what he received in 2000, with one exception, Gays and Lesbians. Bush has doubled his support in African-Americans and Jews and blue dog democrats are on fire with the backing of Zell Miller. In the end, Kerry simply failed to make the sale. It's not that Bush could not be beat in this election, but that he could not be beat by one of the most inept and tin eared politicians in a generation. If Bush had faced a Bill Clinton, I dont think my prediction would be nearly the same.

If New Jersey and Pennsylvania break for Bush as I've predicted, It's all over but the cryin' by 5:00 Pacific as they are in the first polls to close. I think Kentucky is the first state, but it's a Bush state, so no surprises there. My guess ( and my hope )is no later than 8:00 Pacific the cement should have set around the feet of John Kerry. I am only up in the air if Kerry will actually concede the same night or continue the campaign into the courts.

Bush will see a marginal popular vote victory and an electoral landslide. More importantly, he will have received an effective mandate in the Senate, as I think he's likely to pick up an unprecedented 4 seats after his midterm victory in 2002. My only real disappointment is Patty Murray of Washington is likely to be returned to the Senate.

UPDATE I : A Former Co-worker from back in the "Dallas Days", Rich Galen,who also put in yeoman duty last year working for a free Iraq has also put his final bet on the table.

UPDATE II: Ray Fair of Yale says its 1972 all over again. You remember 1972, when 'Evil Nixon' won 49 states in a squeaker popular vote of 60%. Hows Rays prognostication record? His predictions are within 1.5% of the actual result for each election of the past 20 years.

UPDATE III: Early Predicted Spin of Tuesday Night:
No matter how big the pasting the Dems take, Terry Mcauliffe will say "this has been a good night for Democrats"

UPDATE IV: The Betting Line Says "Bush landslide". Betfairs record? They predicted A Howard Win in Australia, while the polls said otherwise.

UPDATE V: Election Projection Makes their final bid. It looks mighty familiar.

UPDATE VI: American Digest Parallels my Blood Red Fury Post with a stirring photoplay on why we should be voting for Bush. I doubt that there is a parallel version for Kerry, or that there could ever be.

Posted @ October 28, 2004 04:44 PM | Election 2004 | Comments (19)

Code Word And Predictions

Media Code Words: Election Still Too Close To Call...

Translation:Lagging support for Democrat candidate requires a barely concealed effort by the media to get out the vote.

Prediction: The election will be essentially over by 8:00 Pacific Time, although Kerry will not concede his loss until the following day. Bush will win in states that the media have not predicted he is even competitive in leaving Dan Rather in tears by 7:30 Pacific. Be aware that media folks get early exit polls, keep an eye on how the media is acting through the day for a clear picture of what is going on. A sad Judy Woodruff is good sign that Bush is winning.

Posted @ October 27, 2004 09:43 AM | Election 2004 | Comments (4)

James Lileks: A Man

Today, Andy Sullivan surprised no one by endorsing Kerry.

Tonight, Jimmy Lileks reminds us what a small man Andy really is.

Tommorrow, Go thank your local deity that Jimmy is on our side.

Posted @ October 27, 2004 12:10 AM | Election 2004 | Comments (2)

What Would Woody Say?

I'm not big on conspiracy theories. Most conspiracy theories eventually fall into the "Prove it didn’t happen" logic trap from which few can return with their wits intact. That being said, it doesn't mean that I don't think that their are conspiracies. I believe if there is enough sex, cash, treasure or power involved, there is almost a guarantee that there will be some group of people trying to secure it by formal or informal means.

It's irresistible. It's a part of human nature. No matter who we are, no matter how poor or how rich, we all want more.

Things are a little wild in The States these days. The election is a few days off and it doesn’t matter where you sit on the political spectrum, everyone is as nervous as cancer survivors waiting for the results from a recent biopsy. We’ve all been up this road once before, and frankly we aren’t looking forward to it again. The waiting is worse than anything.

Today we all woke up to the story that hundreds of tons of high explosives were missing in Iraq, and of course it was all Bush’s fault. Kerry couldn’t get in front of a camera fast enough to say with a complete straight face how this was another example of the danger that Bush put us all in with his ill-advised war. Of course by complaining about the loss of the explosives, Kerry is in fact showing that Bush was exactly correct for going into Iraq, as the entire country is like one of those new combo gas stations that are part Chevron, part McDonalds, part quickie-mart, Only Iraq is a combination insane asylum, concentration camp and weapons depot.

It’s ok, I’m used to the litany of “Kerry complaints”. He’s like a girl I used to date, always good on post play analysis for what everyone else should do with their lives and why they were all idiots. She could never actually be bothered with actually attempting to do anything herself of course, except complain and bitch and whine. She was a master at that, for everything else in life she was a “no show” I knew the relationship was over when we started calling her “Ebert”. She works at 7-11 now; her ambition is to get on the day shift. Yes, God has a sense of humor.

So, what we got here today is a bite-in-the-ass mid-level UN bureaucrat who issues a “whoopsie” email, which just happens to fall right into the grubby hands of the New York Times. Later in the same afternoon, the CBS goons say that they were going to cover the story, but on October 31st, so it could stay fresh in the minds of the great unwashed before the election. All of a sudden, Kerry is out making campaign ad on the subject of the suddenly ‘missing explosives’ and the shame of it all.

That’s a pretty fast turn around. UN drops a note, two major media players bang out a tattoo on the jungle drums, and a candidate is eating his bounty in klieg light about the horror of it all.

And that’s hardly the first time we’ve seen this display of hand-in-glove cooperation between what are supposedly unaligned and disinterested forces. But there you have it, who is it in today’s world is truly disinterested in our affairs. Which of course brings me back to conspiracy.

Woody Allen once had a character in a movie that said:

Helen Hunt: You know, there's a word for people who think everyone is conspiring against them.
Woody Allen: I know, perceptive.

At this point, anyone who doesn’t think the media is laying it in against Bush is simply not perceptive. Anyone who thinks the UN is interested in helping Bush or even being neutral is simply not paying attention. Anyone who thinks the EU is a disinterested observer is delusional. Anyone who doesn’t think the Democrats wont lie, cheat, steal or abide acts of terror all in the name of their party achieving power in this election, well I don’t know if they can read the papers.

That is one huge stack of people that are willing to do anything to steal this election. All those people, all those organizations, all that effort, engaged to do what? Just stop plain old every day American citizens from expressing their preference for who should lead this country? It appears to me that the one thing the rest of the world and our enemies can’t abide is the idea that a plurality of us just might re-elect the man who overturned their apple cart –
George W. Bush.

Let’s face it; George ruined a lot of people’s plans, a lot of very powerful peoples plans. He broke a lot of rice bowls. The UN had a sweet deal going in Iraq until he came along and screwed it up for everyone. France had a sweet deal, 100 billion in oil contracts, weapons systems, infrastructure development. Germany had her hands in the Mesopotamian pie too, right up to her elbows. Russia was face down in the slop.

They gave us Afghanistan, they could hardly say no, but Iraq was always off limits. Once George decided to go into Iraq, the gloves came off. From that point on, George has made himself the target of a lot of people who made their living and kept their accounts in balance with the haul of cash made fencing the goods for Saddam and his family band of mad pirates.

Why?

Because Iraq was the pusher, the juice, Iraq was the grocery store that cashed their bad third party checks and looked the other way. Do a bit of business with Iraq, and a little green grease goes your way when no one is looking.

The UN knew what was going on in Iraq, they knew damn well what a monster Saddam was. They just didn’t care. The UN did worse than just turning a blind eye, the UN enabled Saddam.

The EU stood right behind them and also did nothing. No one was interested in ending the sanctions; the sanctions were making a bunch of people very rich indeed. The fact that they killed thousands of people in the process, that is of no concern of theirs.

There's no mistaking the fact that the whole Iraq piggy bank got tipped over because the voters of Tennessee didn’t vote for their favorite son, Albert Gore. Forget Florida, talk to me about Arkansas and Tennessee. How did that happen?

Once upon a time, we had a President who infuriated the world because he asked a simple question “ why not end Communism”? Why tolerate it? People were appalled. We had all been taught the doctrine of ‘peaceful coexistence’. Reagan didn’t believe in that, he believed we needed to end it. It was a huge risk, none of the smart people at the time believed that it was possible, but one day we all woke up to the Berlin wall coming down and in the blink of an eye, the nightmare was over.

People hated him. I mean they absolutely reviled Reagan and everything he stood for. Truth be told, many still do. They didn’t care one way or another about communism or capitalism; they just didn’t want to get hurt. But Reagan wasn’t stepping on as many toes as George has stepped on. Frankly, the Soviets never had the potential for money generation that the Middle East has in its cash drawers.

Today, George has also asked a basic question: “Why do we have to tolerate Islamic Terror” Why not end it? To do that, He created the Bush Doctrine, “If you are a terrorist or if you harbor a terrorist, we will make no distinction”. On that day, September 21, 2001, Iraq became a target. If Iraq was a hapless set of hillbilly backcountry bumpkins like Afghanistan, I doubt anyone would have blinked. Iraq was much more than that. Our entry into Iraq brought a huge monetary flow to a complete stop. We went to liberate a people, but to the EU, we burned down the gamblin' house to do it.

It’s been my experience that people don’t like it when you interfere with their money. They take it real personal.

The conspiracy I see today is a whole group of people who want their money back. They want their tyrants back in charge of the bank, and the only thing stopping them is grandma bubbie in West Palm Beach whos voting for a Republican for the first time in her life because she’s seen one man stand behind Israel and the other can’t bring himself to say out loud the right thing about Israel. If Ed Koch can vote Republican, why can't I? says she...

What’s standing between us and a gloating Michael Moore on November 2nd? A part-time nurse in Minnesota who’s voting Republican for the first time in her life. I'll never forget those women voting in Afghanistan, everyone said it could never happen but it did. says she...

What’s standing between George Soros and the millions he’s made selling out his country on the currency markets? A middle class church going black man who's had enough of being told hes a victim and has decided to vote Republican.

What’s standing between the EU and the UN and all that cash that they used to get in Iraq?

George W. Bush.

Which just makes me want him in office that much more.

6 Days.

UPDATE: The cat with the pipe at the top of the post is Allen Dulles. He is the bete noir of conspriacy theorists of the past 60 years. From Nazi gold, UFOs and the Kennedy assasination, Allen Dulles provides a lifetime of "What If" Conspiracy.

Posted @ October 26, 2004 08:29 PM | Election 2004 | Comments (7)

Bubba and the Boston Foghorn

Why am I voting for Bush?

Because President Clinton told me to!

President William Jefferson Clinton:"If one candidate is trying to scare you and the other is trying to get you to think, if one candidate is appealing to your fears and the other one is appealing to your hopes, you better vote for the one who wants you to think and hope," he said. Well damned if he aint got it right.

Let’s take a look at that shall we?

We learned today that Justice Rehnquist is ill,The Supreme Court is at stake."
Kerry Claims Bush Plotting 'January Surprise' to Privatize Social Security
Kerry: Potential great for return of draft
Kerry: Women are paid only 76 cents for every dollar owned by men
Two million women have lost health insurance during the Bush administration
John Ashcroft has gone overboard in carrying out Patriot act provisions,"
Bush Lost Weapons In Iraq.
Kerry – Bush lost your jobs.
Kerry says Bush knew about shortage of flu vaccine

So there you go, President Clinton makes a clear and demonstrable case for a Bush Presidency.`

Posted @ October 26, 2004 06:07 PM | Election 2004 | Comments (0)

Piracy?

Once again, the gut wrenching tome written by that spectre of politics, Senator J.F. Kerry: "The New War" has become an item of controversy. I reviewed the book this summer, but here in the New York Sun, is an item that says that several portions were plagarized.

So, not only is it really badly written, but it now appears to have been lifted.

Posted @ October 26, 2004 10:38 AM | Election 2004 | Comments (1)

Elmer Fudd Endorses Kerry

What do I see in this picture? Three guys hunting, one guy talking. That's Kerry in a nutshell. Don't you hate being in a blind with one of these guys? talk,talk,talk,talk all day long, you might as well go hunting with a girl. When it comes time to shoot, their gun has a rag in the barrel, they cant find their ammo and have to borrow yours, you always have to make sure they are sitting in front of you because you dont want to get a sideswiping shot from him because mr. chatty-cathy cant shut up for 20 seconds to keep his eyes on the geese.

Is there anything more pathetic than being the only hunter in your group who didnt bag his limit? Oh yeah, there is one thing, a phony as a wooden watch east coast politician out pandering to the country bumpkins in flyover land to prove he's a "man of the people".

Posted @ October 22, 2004 12:30 PM | Election 2004 | Comments (6)

Schadenfreude

Cuban President Fidel Castro tripped on a step and tumbled to the ground after leaving the stage at a graduation ceremony, fracturing a knee and arm but quickly returning to say that he was "all in one piece."

Castro's fall after a Wednesday night speech in the central city of Santa Clara was certain to launch a new round of speculation about the 78-year-old communist leader's health and the eventual succession after his 45 years of rule

scha·den·freu·de (shädn-froid)
noun - Pleasure derived from the misfortunes of others.

[German : Schaden, damage (from Middle High German schade, from Old High German scado) + Freude, joy (from Middle High German vreude, from Old High German frewida, from fr, happy).]

I have a big bottle of champaign waiting for this monster to kick the bucket. The fact that he did it on camera in front of the world makes me want to give a real "Gary Oldman" laugh.

Posted @ October 21, 2004 08:50 PM | Election 2004 | Comments (0)

Kids For Kerry

Dennis Kucinich throws his support behind the Kerry Campaign.

Inspired by the todays "news" that "Children prefer Kerry". How this is supposed to change my mind and get me - an adult - to vote for Kerry, I have no idea, but the need for the media to report this annual asinine statistic never ceases to amaze me. I guess since kids dont own anything or have any responsibility and wet their pants thrice daily, it makes the perfect Kerry Voter Demographic. Are you a Dependent? Do you have a childlike grip on reality, sometimes confusing your jacket hanging in the closet with the boogie man? Do you admire the military accomplishments of Captain Crunch? If so, then John F. Kerry is your man!

This "kids vote" story is just like the annual pardoning of the Thanskgiving turkey. Just once, I'd love to watch the president say "Not this year Tom!" and hack the head off the turkey right on camera.

Posted @ October 20, 2004 01:52 PM | Election 2004 | Comments (3)

Foreign Leaders For Kerry

( Voiceover) One more foreign leader who is outwardly supporting John Kerry, President Saddam Hussein of Iraq is shown working the line in the key battleground state of Ohio as he goes out on the stump for the Democrat Presidential candidate. Spokesman Paul Begala said that Saddam has every right to speak out in this election, as he is the poster child for everything the Kerry campaign stands for. Later today, Saddam will be visiting a flu shot clinic to ensure that the frail and elderly world statesman is kept in tip top shape for the Kerry inaugural ball in January.

A USA Today Poll shows that Kerry is way ahead in the deposed tyrannical leader demographic, but since the Afghanistan election, Bush has seen an "uptick" in support from women who used to be property in islam, but are now full citizens of what some people have said is a military quagmire..."

UPDATE: Castro Weighs In, "SI Por Kerry, Non Para BUSH". No word forthcoming on when Cubans will be able to say anything but praise about "El Commandante".

Posted @ October 19, 2004 04:51 PM | Election 2004 | Comments (0)

Opportunists For Kerry

This picture shows two things:

1) A left wing politician whos political goals are in conflict with mainstream Americas values, who has remained the darling of the media for 30 years.

2) The Reverend Jesse Jackson.

Posted @ October 19, 2004 11:29 AM | Election 2004 | Comments (0)

Alternate Futures

As we wind down to the end of this election campaign, I'd like to point out a few things.

1) If Kerry wins, the entry in wikipedia for "phyrric victory" will be replaced by a picture of John Forbes Kerry. A Kerry victory secures the White House, but he almost certainly will not win the Senate and he wont get the House and a vast majority of state legislatures who are also Republican in name and conservative in action. Kerry wins a nation with one foot in the "war canoe" and the other foot on the "peace pier". To quote the lyrics of Sting: "Every breath you take, Every move you make, Ill be watching you..." - Every move Kerry makes will be under the microscope by an increasingly influential blog media. Clinton was nearly undone by one website, hows kerry going to survive a relentless attacks by the blog media ( visual reference : Death Star - rebel X wings fighters ) For those of you hoping that this will be a return to the "blue dress" years, forget it. Kerry is much more likely to be Carter-like, than Clinton-like. And gosh,weren't the Carter years a hoot, Jimmy Carter augered into the ground so hard that the Democrats are still trying to crawl out of that hole. Four years of Kerry, and the "Birchers" are going to seem like middle of the road voters.

2) Whether or not Bush wins,this is the last time you will ever see George W. Bush campaign for anything. Based on his brothers clear statements, it may very well be the last time any Bush family member runs for anything at the national level. Come what may on November 2nd, This is the end of the Bush Dynasty.

3) Second terms are almost always problematic for Presidents. Nixon Reagan and Clinton were all damaged by their second terms. What the left gets out of a second Bush term is a scandal that let's them define Bush in the way they want that best suits their purposes.

4) Cheney, Bush's Vice President,has no intenetion of ever being President, leaving a large vacuum in the Republican field.

5) Kerry's base is hardly "excited for Kerry". They settled, and they know it. The largest amount of 'Swing" in the votes as of late is not towards Bush or Kerry, but towards - Ralph Nader. The logic being if they are going to lose, might as well throw some weight behind a guy who believes what they believe.

6) Heres how it works - A Vote for Nader is actually Vote For Clinton! If Kerry wins, Hillary in 2008 will not be possible, If Kerry loses, its a virtually certain that the Clinton 2008 campaign will begin on November 3rd, 2004.

7) Can Hillary win in 2008? My guess is yes, she can! After 8 years of war, after an all but certain second term Bush scandal, the nation will be ready for a change. Mrs. Clinton has played the War situation with an amazing amount of political savvy, as she is a much more capable politician than the current Democrat candidate.

So Remember kids, If you Vote for Nader in 2004, you will probably get to vote for Clinton in 2008.

UPDATE: Thomas P. Barnett Explains It All For You.

Posted @ October 19, 2004 09:38 AM | Election 2004 | Comments (8)

Vegetables For Kerry

This 'picture' shows two things:

1) One is a hollow vegetable that is going to be carved up around the end of October and forgotten on the side of the road by mid November.

2) The other is a Pumpkin.

Posted @ October 18, 2004 12:39 PM | Election 2004 | Comments (6)

Kerry’s Grand Unified Campaign Strategy

From a newly discovered Kerry campaign notebook:

George W. Bush’s secret plan is to kill more senior citizens faster by purposely sabotaging Flu vaccines and simultaneously stopping stem cell research outlawing Canadian reimportation of perscription drugs, then forcing those that refuse to die into poverty by privatizing their Social Security, ensuring that fewer core Democrat party voters will be alive to vote and since he’s also drafting all the kids into the military against their will while the evil John Ashcroft is rounding up all the remaining dissenters under false charges of supporting terror under provisions of the so called "Patriot Act" and Michael "Nepotism" Powell is silencing the voices of leftist media by questioning their patriotism, that will leave nothing but loyal Halliburton employees to vote in the election. This is the ultimate in voter suppression techniques. If doesnt supress enough votes, Bush has promised to increase the arsenic in the water so his corporate pals can make more profits, and you know what that means, dont you comrade! Run for the Hills! We're all going to die!

Oh! and I forgot, the reason why it cost you 2.50 a gallon for you to drive your SUV's with Kerry/Edwards stickers on the bumpers to this Democrat rally is because Bush and his cronies in Saudi Arabia are manipulating the price of oil to satisfy their contractual obligations to the Carlile group so that they can put on the "New World Order Bildeburger Bash" this year at the Bohemian grove.

Oh! and one other thing, the reason why its so hard to park at the mall or get a seat at a restaurant is because everyone is out of work. If people had real jobs they wouldnt be hanging out at the mall buying stuff all the time would they?

Oh! did I mention that Bush is a Christian? Well, I dont have to tell you what that means, do I comrade? John Kerry is a Catholic, but its not like he really follows it, I mean, He's divorced, votes for abortion rights, advocates all sorts of things the church works against and except for election season every 6 years, he doesnt darken the door of a church. I mean, The President actually believes that stuff, how dangerous is that? The last thing we need in this world is someone who believes in something greater than himself, that just screws it up for the rest of us.

Oh! One other thing - Mary Cheney is a Lesbian. I know cause Barney Frank and Jim McGreevy told me so. It's not that we didnt know, or that she didnt know, but we just thought you'd like to know, but only if it changes how you think of the Cheney family, if it changes how you feel about John Kerry, then you are clearly a bigot.

And just because this memo looks fake, it doesnt mean that the facts dont support what the memo says.

(Lord John Worfin - Kerry Campaign Manager - Reporting for Duty)

Posted @ October 18, 2004 10:06 AM | Election 2004 | Comments (3)

A Quick One

I Don't normally like to just link to someone elses work, as I think it is a bad habit to get started, but this piece is just too good to pass up and I'm too much in a hurry this morning to write an header piece to wrap around it.

As the newly self confessed poli-slut Mr. Green would say: Read The Whole Thing.

Posted @ October 15, 2004 08:22 AM | Election 2004 | Comments (2)

Oliver Stone Accidentally Reveals "Why Bush Will Win"

In this article in MSNBC, "Director" Oliver Stone uncovers a key truth about the election (Snippet)

Of George W. Bush, he says: “He’s worse than Nixon in his vulgarity. He looks like he shops at Wal-Mart. That’s not what the president is supposed to be. He has no intellectual curiosity and is proud of it.

(End Snip...)

I'm not a big fan of Wal-Mart, but I cant help but notice that Wal-Mart is always chock full of people, no matter what time of day it is or how far away the store is from any population. "Regular People" shop at Wal-Mart Mr. Stone,you know them, thats the people who used to go to your movies before someone told you that you were an 'artist'?

And heres another shocker for you Mr. Stone. The type of people who shop at Wal-Mart, drive pick ups, listen to country music, work at factories, have more than one kid and still dont have a nanny or even want one and still send their kids to public school...

They vote Republican.

20 years ago, half of them voted Democrat, 30 Years ago, they ALL voted Democrat. Today, Democrat Voting Wal-Mart shoppers are far and few between. This should be core Democrat territory, but its because of elitist snobbery offered up by people like you and yours that they've changed sides and voted Republican.

Ollie baby, You know what else?, They dont go to your movies anymore do they? Hows that Alexander flick doing babe...?

Mr. Stone, You think you just insulted the President, but what you did is remind everyone who walks through the door today at Wal-Mart who is the man who best represents them. Every time that door opens at Wal-Mart is another ballot in the box of George W. Bush. Theres alot of Wal-Marts, and they all have a lot of doors, and they are swinging open and closed all day long.

With People who are voting for George W. Bush.

Posted @ October 13, 2004 11:51 AM | Election 2004 | Comments (12)

Parallel Parking In Hollywood

My buddy Ray gets at least partial credit for this post, but in all fairness, I was already running down this road when Ray threw the shopping cart out in front of me, so here goes.

I think we all know by now that "Our Man JFK" gets under my skin pretty fast. I've always thought he was the weakest of all candidates that have been put forth by the Democrats in a very long time, It's not that I dont think that Bush could not have been beat this time, Its just that I've been very sure that hes not going to get beat by John "Fredo" Kerry.

Ray got me thinking about Science Fiction movies in relation to what movie character Archetype Kerry reminds me of the most. And then I had it:

This is a picture from one of my favorite movies, "The Thing From Another World". In this movie, We see many of the great 1950's movie stereotypes at play.

"The Thing" fuses Science Fiction and horror into a platform that would be replicated many times over during the morality plays of the movies ofthe 1950's. This film is more than just a do-or-die played out with big sticky bug eyed aliens, the central conflict of the film itself is actually between academic and martial culture, embodied by the good and world weary view of "Marlboro Man" - Captain Hendry, and the academic knowledge and refined lifestyle of "Metrosexual Man" - Dr. Carrington.

On one end of the story is "The Good Captain" whose duty is to protect his troops and the civilians under his protection from the alien, and on the other side, is "The Doctor" who is more than willing to let a few of the little people die in order to acquire knowledge for what he's sees as the betterment of humanity. To Dr. Carrington, the violence that the alien uses is just a misunderstanding between the clearly older and wiser alien culture and the lesser and more inferior human culture.

Dr. Carrington assumes that the creature is in fact, "more wise" than the puny humans that discover it and at one point in the movie he says:

We owe it to the brain of our species to stand here and die... without destroying a source of wisdom.

It's in the interplay between the characters of Hendry Vs. Carrington that we see Common Sense in competition with intelligence. Captain Hendry has duties to perform where Dr. Carrington looks only towards his own basking in the reflected glory that comes from the worship of knowledge. Captain Hendry is in "The Service" whereas Dr. Carrington serves no one but himself. In several scenes in the movie, Dr. Carrington proves that although he may be smarter than Captain Hendry and the rest of the "puny civilians", he is also not trustworthy. Not because he is not smart, but because he does not value the lives of the average person. To Dr. Carrington, human life is not as valuable and worthy as the expansion of scientific knowledge. Dr. Carringtons Self-loathing has overridden his common sense and basic humanity.

To whom do you trust your children? Captain Hendry or Dr. Carrington?

Posted @ October 12, 2004 04:40 PM | Election 2004 | Comments (1)

The Secret Weapon

In my normal life, I work on in a team of engineers that are based all over the globe, in point of fact, I am one of only two Americans in my little group. The result of this situation is I'm often asked to help translate the nature of American life to my co-workers.

While Americans are often accused of being ignorant of the rest of the world, I'm hear to tell you that the rest of the world doesn't know a thing about America or Americans. This is in spite of how we spew our culture over the world like an open and out of control 5 inch firehose. What most of the world actually knows about America and Americans could fit into a small monkeys fist.

In the three years since I joined this team, we've covered items from "pick up trucks", homebuilt aircraft to gun ownership. But the one thing that most of the Euros and the Asia Pacific folks dont get is:

George W. Bush.

Well, for that matter the whole method and practice of Governance in the United States is a mystery to the people of the world. I get quiet exasperated trying to explain "separation of powers', 'federal vs. state powers' and 'constitutional law'. The idea that our system of government is designed to ensure that it doesnt work very well, is simply beyond them. When I explain that the "Bill Of Rights" does not in fact give you any rights, but actually limits the powers of government, that all rights are believed to be yours to begin with and that most of what the constitution does is limit, form and shape government, and that it does not actually say in any explicit language " you have this right or that one". It does tell every one "government can go this far and no further" on a number of subjects.

I also tell them if you want to start a fight between any two random Americans, just propose to them that you want to change the Constitution, and then stand back. All Americans feel the Constitution is theirs. To Americans, the cornerstone of our law is more akin to deed of trust than a holy tract.

Most of the Euros expect that the office of the President is like a "Super-Prime-Minister". When I explain that the President is just the president, and he is only the executive officer of one of the three branches of government and very often the legislative branch is under the control of the party in opposition to the Presidents party, they think I must be kidding.

Divided Government, an American Practice and Tradition for over 200 years, but a complete mystery to the rest of the world.

When I explain that the President gets to propose a budget, but congress actually sets the bill into being, but then the President still has to sign the budget into law, they are stunned. When I explain that the President can talk foreign policy and treaty law all he wants with the leaders of the world but the Senate still has to ratify all treaties, they dont know what to say.

"Wait! - The President can send the Secretary of State over to sign a peace treaty and the senate might NOT ratify it"?

Sure. No problem.

Well, that doesnt work very well.

That's precisely why it was designed that way. It takes a tremendous amount of collaboration, cooperation and concession to get anything done at all in the United States. On the whole, Americans would prefer that nothing get done slowly over something bad getting done quickly.

I recently had someone get "red faced furious" at President Bush and his not signing the Kyoto Treaty. When I explained that President Bush could sign on tommorrow and nothing would change, as the Senate is unlikely to ratify the treaty in any form, no matter how its presented. The Senate had already voted down the treaty 98-0 once before. This person simply didn't believe me, I then asked them why then didn't President Clinton sign on to Kyoto if it were so easy? He of course, didnt have an answer. He has always been told it was Only Bush that was stopping it. When I told him that it was actually American voters who had largely stopped Kyoto, he simply could not understand how it was so, and yet, it clearly was.

Americans might be largely from Europe, but Americans are not European. We have a very different way of looking at the world. In this one example we see a very clear difference between European thinking and American thinking.

All children in America are raised with a lesson that is based on a well intentioned myth, but it is but one of many small things that binds us together and yet makes us different from Europeans.

All American are all raised with the idea that:

"Someday kid, you too could grow up to be the President of the United States".

We are told tales of the Great President Lincoln and how he was raised in a log cabin, but grew to become one of our greatest presidents and a truly great man. We are told of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and how he was not stopped by being infirmed by polio to be one of the greatest men of all time. We are all raised to believe that we too could be President. I dont think I've ever hear a European tell me that when they were a kid they were told:

"Someday Son, you too can grow up to be Prime Minister!"

One of the unintended consequences of this myth is to make every American look at the person who is President or the person who wants to be President, and then ask themselves:

"Does this guy think he's better than me"?

Americans don't believe that there is a class of people who should lead them. Americans infact tend to loathe and despise any person who feels that they "Deserve to be in charge!". We dont see a "lord and master" or messiah in the office of President, we see a man, someone who's just like us, even when nothing could be further from the truth, thats what we like to see. That's what we want to see. When Military leaders of aplomb run for President, like Macarthur or more recently Wesley Clark, we give them the look askance and know that no matter how qualified they might be as executive officers, the basic fact exists that any man who wants to be President had better be "one of us" and thus their lofty ambitions are defeated, not by great armies, but by the coffee klatches of the Iowa caucuses and the snows of New Hampshire primaries. With only very rare exceptions, Generals are simply not "one of us". For some reason I cant yet fathom, Admirals are never in the running at all for President, either they are just smarter than Generals or they dont like the cut in pay and lack of status that will come with the step down from being an Admiral to becoming the President. It is a mystery.

Americans also don't look to long term political life as an example of a good potential Presidental resume as much as we see someone who may have feathered their nest at the cost of the taxpayer. With the exception of the Kennedy family, Americans dont trust the "Family Business' approach to politics as the Bush Brothers have found. The Kennedys are a true phenomenon that oddly proves my point as Kennedys are a family who, while rich, are also a members of a once persecuted religious minority who did not always enjoy the freedoms that they do today. It was the Kennedy family ascendance that brought an end to so much anti-catholic attitudes in the United States, as a result you could also say that Kennedys were also "one of us", even though they were in a very rarified part of the "wealth pyramid". No matter where they came from they always made sure to make it about "us" and not "them". I think their familiy business franchise is on hard times as of late, but I dont think that should take away from some of the truly great things they did in the past.

Americans will give the President a great deal of freedom to do his job, so long as the President is perceived as being not on "his side", but on "our side". By most measures of success to modern presidencies, FDR cannot be seen as a wholly successful as he presided over one of the worst situations any President has ever seen. He was accused of trying to pack the Supreme Court, which had he been perceived as doing it for any other reason than what he felt was best for the country, he would have been out of office within 90 days. The economic situation was probably made worse by many of his policies, but he was forgiven by Americans because throughout the nightmare of the Great Depression because he was clearly doing it for no other reason that to try to make things better. FDR provided a beacon of guidance and leadership in an otherwise horribly dark time. If it were up to todays 'green eye shades" metrics like job reports and deficits, FDR would not have survived 18 months as President. He survived and in some ways thrived, until he died in office in 1945. If he had lived, I have no doubt he could have run and won a 5th Term in 1948. He was always optimistic and spoke only of Americas greatness, not its failures. In FDRs day the theme music for his party was "Happy Days are Here Again", todays Democrat party is "Up Against the Wall Redneck M**F**cker!" , and yet they wonder why they keep losing prominence in elections.

FDR is not considered a 'Great Man' and a 'Great President' for what he did for himself, He is considered a 'Great President' for providing leadership and direction at a dark time in the nations history. Americans respect a leader, even when things are going badly for the man and for the nation. Lincoln presided over the bloodiest war in the nations history, one that he personally had a great deal to do with the war getting started. The south seceeded largely as a result of Lincoln becoming President. The Civil War was horribly managed and could have been over much sooner had it been under better management by a more capable executive. It wasnt untill the Civil War was nearly over, that the people who elected him for his first term begin to think of him as a truly great President.

When people talk about Americans today not being loved in the world, I often remind myself that there was a time when Americans did not even love themselves.

Americans will on occasion take risks with their choice of who should be President. We accept amateurs to the office of President, such as Ulysses S. Grant, Harry Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower. If fact, most presidents have very little politcal life prior to becoming President, On average, 10 years of public service.

In modern times, Bill Clinton survived challenge after challenge largely because of nothing else except the good will of a majority of Americans. He was always perceived to be "just one of us".

Which brings us back to "Our Boy George..."

Americans tend not to give you too much credit if your daddy is is a "great man" and we dont hold it too much against you if he was a failure (Clinton)as we are all aware that no one gets to pick their parents or family ( Roger Clinton/ Billy Carter, the list goes on...). No matter where you are from and no matter what advantages or disadvantages you have, Americans want to know that you have done something significant and "on your own". We also accept people to the Presidency who have been failures ( Grant, Truman and yes, George W. Bush ) but we have no tolerance for negativity and defeatism (Carter).

The Secret Weapon of George W. Bush is that he has successfully made himself into being seen as one of us. We see a man who on September 11th had one thing that FDR did not have, a video camera in his face looking for any sign of human weakness. What that camera captured was a man who reacted calmly and effectively in the face of an unspeakable horror. In that few minutes in Florida, he had no way of knowing that this was just a couple of aircraft or that there werent 100 more on their way to hit every major city. He had no way of knowing if it was being done in concert with Chinese Nuclear submarines just off the coast, ready to launch missles to decapitate his government and this great nation. None of us knew. A certain porcine filmmaker wants to make that moment into a moment of ridicule and derision, but what I see when I see that moment is a man, one of us, faced with a nation suddenly gone from peace to war in the blink of an eye, with an unknown and possibly very powerful enemy, looking back at an audience of children who until a moment before had all thought that all that would happen on that day is they would get to tell their parents they sat with the president at school. Instead, for the rest of their lives they will tell their families for generations to come that they were in the very room where the President was told that "We are at War".

We often think about that moment in terms of what the kids saw, but we dont stop to think about what the President saw on that day. He had no way of knowing if that particular classroom of children would be affected directly by the war that was now clearly underway. All those kids had dressed for school in peacetime, but before their lunch recess, they would be in wartime. This war would begin here and be fought here at home. For the first time in generations, America itself, had become a battlefield.

They sat their looking at him and he at them, and I know as a father myself, he looked at every one of those kids and said to himself "Oh good lord, they are all so young..."

He didnt panic, he didnt run out of the room, he didnt cry, and I'm sure he wanted to do all of those things. Instead, he patiently waited for the Secret Service to clear the route, excused himself politely and went about his job, mindful that how well he did it would be reflected in the eyes of those kids on that day.

He could have made the whole event about himself, but George knows that there are more important things in the world than his own ego. The most important things in the world, were in that class, looking right at him from their desks.

The Secret Weapon of George W. Bush is the nature of a guy who can laugh at himself and knows that his wife is really the better part of himself. The Secret Weapon of George W. Bush is a guy who knows himself well enough to know whats right and wrong without having to take a poll. The Secret Weapon of George W. Bush is the common sense to know that Terrorism is something to be ended, not tolerated as a nuisance.

In last Fridays debate, at the end of the debate the audience of 'undecided' voters , voted clearly their intent by walking to George W. Bush and his lovely wife Laura and waited to have their picture taken. The President and his wife were mobbed, while the other candidate was largely by himself.

The audience of the people of Missouri, simply felt they could walk up to have their hats and t-shirts signed and their hands shook by a guy named George.

Who just happened to be - The President of the United States.

Epilogue:

I've had the hardest time convincing the Euros how young most parts of the western US actually is. For example, they all know LA to be a big bustling city, hollywood and all that. When I tell then that before WWII, LA was a city of about a million people, they thought I was kidding. When I explained that it is extremely rare to find any structures in the LA area that are older than 50 years old, except for old spanish missions, they honestly thought I was joking. Where today you find a city that spreads nonstop from santa barbara to Irvine, 60 years ago, it was a small collection of very small towns at best.

They used to get after me about how Americans dont speak more than one language, until the discovered that I speak French, German and Spanish. Then they changedthe subject and say that as a rule, Americans don't speak but one language. I then ask them how far do they have travel to find people who speak a different language. Most said less than 200 miles.

I told them we could go from the arctic circle to miami and speak nothing but English as our primary language. The fact that many Americans have to travel over 1500 miles just to find someone who doesnt speak english, it was no longer a question of American ignorance that had to be understood, but question of scale and distance that had to be understood by the Europeans.

I tell them all the time that none of them understands anything about America until they rent a car in New York and then drive to LA by way of New Orleans or Chicago. They of course ask "why we dont have trains and mass transit", I tell them we do where population density is equivalent to the way it is in Europe, but out West of the mississippi, it just doesnt make sense, (thats why we invented the airplane)! When we have a single county in California that is bigger than Holland in terms of square miles, population, GDP, it helps put things in perspective for them. When I tell them that the NY Police Department has 40,000 police officers, 250 helicopters and 50 aircraft and 125 large boats which is almost bigger than the largest army in Europe or nearly all the rest, combined! they begin to understand the scale of what we have here in the US.

When they come to America, they come like most tourists, to the big city, they see the sights, but they rarely see America. All big cities the world over are the same, its the small towns and the edge of cities where you see the differences in any part of the world. If you come to America and you havent driven for 3 hours in a straight line and not had a car pass you in either direction, you didnt really get to see the place.

When they get mad at me just for being an American, I ask them if they think we all just sprouted from the ground. They ask me "why dont Amerincas care what the world thinks?"

I then tell them the truth that the dont want to hear:

"Americans share two universal traits. First, all Americans are exiles of some sort, we are all run out, chased out, thrown out, burned out or sold out of all the other countries in the world. No American is in America because things were working well for them in the places they were from. Talk to an American long enough, and you'll always find the scalawag who escaped from the noose back in county cork, or the ancestor of the kid who was on the run from conscription in Bismarcks Germany and never saw his family again, you'll find people who are descended from people who were burned from their homes in during a progrom in Minsk, or survivors of the Armenian Genocide in Turkey. For most of us, America wasnt our first choice as much as it was our last chance.

Second, Americans share one thing in common with each other that no other person in the world can understand. While the rest of the world goes to bed at night saying "Well if things get really bad, I can always go to the States..." As Americans, we know that we have nowhere else to go. If we dont make it here, there is no where else we can go, and few places that will accept us even if we wanted to go. If America were to fall, we all know that we would not be welcome anywhere else. That, is why we fight so hard, that is why we still hold onto our patriotism and faith whem most of the world has thrown theirs away.

All Americans are enfranchised citizens, not subjects to a crown or property to a Lord. All Americans are co-owners in the greatest enterprise and longest running experiment in liberty the world has ever known. All Americans are my brothers under the flag.

I once had a guy from England tell me that what made his country great was how no matter how long I lived in England, I could never be English, but that he could come to the States and be an American right away. I told him he got it the wrong way around, that what he said is precisely why America is a great and growing country and his is not and will never be as long as he held that attitude.

That is something that no member of the European Union can ever understand.

Posted @ October 11, 2004 08:24 PM | Election 2004 | Comments (38)

What's Missing From Kerry's Vocabulary?

Once upon a time, someone told me that nothing ever happens in a movie by accident. Every frame is planned, everything that ends up on the screen in the final print is there because someone wrote the scene, someone acted it, someone directed the scene and finally someone edited it.

What you see on the screen is a manufactured vision. If you are watching a movie and a small detail occurs at the beginning, it will almost always relate to something later.

Campaigns for elective office are also like movies, everything you see is a manufactured vision. To see the truth behind the candidate, you have to learn to keep you eyes open for the little details. One thing I like to do is just listen to the candidates. I mean really listen. What words do they choose?, how often do they repeat them. What is it that gets them emotionally engaged?

So for about 9 months, I've been listening to Kerry. I've been trying to put my finger on something thats been bothering me about Kerrys vocabulary and I think I finally figured it out what it was.

Earlier this evening I noticed a parallel between Kerrys Senate testimony in 1971 and something he said today.

In 1971, he said this:

"we cannot fight communism all over the world, and I think we should have learned that lesson by now.

Now, bear in mind that when he said this, this was the prevailing world opinion. Communism was something to be tolerated. We had to maintain the status quo.

A great many learned men believed that this was so. It took one man of faith and another of conviction to free the world of the foolish idea that Communism was something that should be tolerated. Today we accept it as a given that Communism has as much relevance in the world as does zoroastianism, but it wasn't always that way.

Today, Kerry said this:

There are 60 countries around the world with al-queda cells in them. Many of these countries have clearer ties to alqueda than did Iraq. Did we invade Russia? Did we Invade China?

Now, to my mind what Kerry was trying to say was obvious. What Kerry said in that little line was the 2004 version of his 1971 defeatist statement.

To paraphrase:
We can't fight Terrorists, and I would have thought we would have learned that by now

Kerry went on to say that sanctions were working and that they did not have to be lifted if we had used the "good diplomacy".

"Good Diplomacy", who talks like that?

And then it hit me, the little nagging thing that had been bothering me for 9 months. It was the word I never heard Kerry use in the context of the Jihadi War.

Kerry does not talk about Victory.

Oh sure, He uses it it terms of himself prevailing over "the evil Bush", but Kerry never discusses the word or the concept of Victory by the Western Democracies. Kerry has said that he would "fight the Terrorists", but Kerry does not use the word "Victory". He has given up before he has started.

Kerry - doesn't believe in Victory. Kerry doesn't believe in us!

This post features a picture of one of my heroes. The man who saved western civilization, Mr. Winston Churchill. He is flashing the "V for Victory" sign. Winston Churchill and his country stood alone against the dark night of fascism, while my country, the beacon of freedom sat on its hands allowing half the world to become engulfed in flames. Churchill stood on the rubble of his capitol and flashed the V for Victory, While Men like Charles Lindberg and Teddy Kennedys father talked at length about our eventual defeat by the superior forces of fascism. Churchill didnt listen to the voices of defeat, and people hated him for it. The adulation that the world feels for him now happened after Victory was assured, I suspect the same will be true of President Bush, after Victory is assured, everyone will say he was always their hero. For now, he lives in the cold exile that results whenever you do the right thing instead of the popular thing.

Back then, Churchill didn't listen to the voices of defeat, Churchill believed in Victory. Today President Bush is not taking council to the voices of defeat, He believes only in Victory.

Kerry believes only in Kerry and says so with his every breath. To Kerry, There's no enemy of America worth fighting and no virtue in America worth defending.

From now till election day, We need to buck up our spirits by playing the first few notes of "Beethovens fifth" we need to flash the "V for Victory". We need to remind everyone what our goal is, and that is Victory. It is only by being victorious over the Jihadis that can we have peace. There is no co-existance possible with these murdering parasites. Senator Kerry has said his strategy is to have a "Summit". I say the only "summit" we should have is on the deck of the USS New York after the last Islamic country has had a free election.

Then, and only then, can we have peace.

I need to find some paratooper crickets, I'm getting a real "Longest Day " vibe going here. Bumper stickers? I want to go into a grocery store and hear paratrooper crickets from every corner, and know what it means while the democrat defeatists shake their heads and wonder what that sound means.

dot-dot-dot-dash. It means your ass, Mr Kerry.

Posted @ October 08, 2004 03:10 PM | Election 2004 | Comments (21)

What Do Winners Act Like?

Now, A few people have written me asking if I'm still confident in a Bush Victory as I was back when I wrote the now famous "Farewell John Kerry" Post.

Oh, you could say that. You could also say that any doubt I may have had, as been erased, not by Bush but by the Democrats themselves.

Allow me to illustrate:

This week Union thugs and Democrat Party Muscle have begun a campaign of terror against Republican voters in several states.

Milwaukee,Wi
Huntington, W.Va.
Orlando, Fla.
Tampa, Fla.
Seattle, Wa.

Now, Why would you do this? Frustration? Anger? Righteous Indignation?

Nahhh. There's a better answer if you think about it, and its obvious if you send anytime looking at polls in detail.

These attacks are designed to do one thing, and one thing only, and it's the one thing that Kerry has never managed to do, and that is suppress the Republican vote. Kerry, a candidate who was picked by the Democrats as their second choice, based purely on their belief that as a former military man, he would be found acceptible by the Republican faithful. Talk about your "Stalingrad" sized miscalculations, this one goes in the books.

All they had to do was ask us, we would have told them, give us a Tony Blair, a Joe Lieberman Democrat, and yeah maybe. But this guy. Are you serious? While we may disagree with those other men, we know that both Tony and Joe are on "our side". In the test of his life, Kerry switched sides, and sided with the murdering thugs that took over Vietnam, and no, we havent forgiven him for that, and no, it wasn't heroic, it was opportunistic and dishonest.

Now The question of the day would be this:

"If the Democrats were winning, why would they need to suppress the Republican voters by threats of violence?"

They arent. They aren't even close, and they know it. What used to be a clear Democrat majority in this country has changed to a Republican majority. Since 1994, there has been a "Sea Change" underway. There are still a good number of people who would never announce publically that they have voted Republican, but they do. Since 1994, in Election after Election, we see polls that say " too close to call", but very often after its all said and done its the Republican who shows up the victor. Lori Byrd of Polipundit, makes this clear with her data in this Post

Theres more going in the this election that most of us realize. Whats happening below are very feet is that the political power in this country is about to change places. This election is the last chance by the Democrats to remain relevant as a political power. Their only hope now is to suppress the vote of a party that used to be weak and incapable of winning offices most anywhere. That does not describe the Republican party of today, but its is increasingly a good way to describe the Democrat party.

If you remember the O.J. Simpson Murder Case Verdict, just remember the faces of the white audiences. That is exactly what the faces of the Democrats will look like on November 3rd.

Yeah, I'm confident. I have one other reason why:

Kerry Then:

"we cannot fight communism all over the world, and I think we should have learned that lesson by now. "

Kerry Now:

On Sudan:
While on BET, Kerry said:

"the United States would have to be in a position in Iraq and Afghanistan to allow that to happen". He also said his options as president would be limited because President Bush has overextended U.S. forces.

"Our flexibility is less than it was," he said. "Our moral leadership is not what it ought to be."

"I don't want to be a country that allows a second genocide in a decade to take place," Kerry said.

But on September 9th, Kerry said:

"The United States should ensure the immediate deployment of an effective international force to disarm militia, protect civilians and facilitate delivery of humanitarian assistance in Darfur," he told the meeting of black Protestant churches here.

"If I were president, I would act now. As I've said for months, I would not sit idly by," Kerry told the group.

On Iraq:
"Kerry said he still believes Saddam was a threat, but that dozens of other countries are capable of producing nuclear weapons or are home to al-Qaida operatives. "Did we invade Russia? Did we invade China?" he said. "

Kerry has decided that Terrorism and Genocide are just too hard to fight, just as Communism was too hard to fight.

To Kerry, There's no enemy of America worth fighting and no virtue in America worth defending.

Posted @ October 07, 2004 07:35 PM | Election 2004 | Comments (3)

Not Watching

I'm not watching the debate tonight. I just want to ask why anyone else is watching? Did anyone ever watch a debate and walk away saying " Gosh , I thought I liked Candidate X, but Candidate Y really showed me his stuff last night ". Sorry, to my knoweldge thats never happened. It's the Sasquatch of water cooler life. Youve heard of it, you know people who swear that they know somebody who knows somebody who... but it just aint so.

Look at what happened last week. Kerry gives the performance of his life, Bush is now at a higher job approval than before the debate. Do you know anyone, anywhere who after last weeks show has now said " I can now switch my vote for Kerry". If you do, just ask them for me what is Kerrys position on the War? Because I've watched the debate, and I've read the transcript 3 times and I still can't tell if he wants to leave Iraq altogether or wants to increase troops and spend more money or give Nuclear weapons to Iran and unilaterally disarm. I can't tell.

My guess is Kerry can't tell either, but it doesnt matter because "he's not Bush", and to about 47% of the electorate and just about every Jihadi on the planet, thats all that matters. Kerry or Edwards could walk out on stage in a chiffon dress, with a string of pearls, and there would be many in the TBM who would accuse any of us that point out that "real men dont wear Chiffon", as just another right wing attack on their patriotism.

Let's be honest. The contest is over, everyone who can breathe has now made up their mind, so all of this outgassing in the last 28 days is for nothing. If you still don't know who you are going to vote for by now, nothing anyone says in the next 28 days will make you go " Oh, THATS a good point, Now I'm definitely all for Mr. fill-in-the-blank, oh Honey! get my checkbook, I'm writing a check to that guy tonight".

And all this stuff about "new voters" is also crap. People dont vote out of a sense of duty, they vote out of habit. Kids ( I was one myself once, so I speak from experience) only have bad habits and are usually so self-absorbed and soaking in bong-water that they hardly ever notice that there's an election going on till after its over anyway. Those that do notice are usually pretentious little do-gooders, who will most likely vote for Nader( as long as the ballot is on biodegradeable stock and only if they can use vegetable based ink and the polling station is "cleansed" before the election by a taoist monk)

The TBM need a good horserace, or you'll be like me, watching whatever else is on, what you've stored on your Tivo or reading "blogs" on that danged computer fer-gods-sake. The TBM will make news even if there is none to report, there has never been a news broadcast in the history of mankind that ended early because there was a general lack of anything interesting going on. Why do I like blogs? - Reason #24: Because if a blogger doesn't have anything to say, they say so, they dont crank out a piece every M-W-F just to keep their editor and publisher happy.

The candidates have made their case and the election is actually over. We are just waiting for the Polls to open so we can get on with it. If the polls opened tommorow are there any of you who would say " I need a little more time to make up my mind"?

Hardly.

We've reached the point in the battle where the 'signal to noise' ratio is so high that weve all reached down into the dashboards in our mental cockpits to turn off our radios and missle warning systems. There's just too much chaff in the air, so it's time to get back to our "seat of the pants" instincts. Most of us made up our minds months ago. Some of us made up our mind on Sept 12, 2001.

The Republic will survive no matter who takes the office of President. If Kerry wins, He gets a Congress where half of it is solidly Republican and the other half is still a majority Republican. This means that a Democrat president will get bubkus done. If this was peacetime, the Conservative in me would be ok with that, but since were not, I'm not. Presidents always enter office all spry and "happening", but Kerry is gasping for air already and he's not through with the campaign ( or is he...?). I would be amazed if he simply survives the first 4 years, but he's not getting anything done during that time anyway, so enjor the ride. I can't wait for Kerry to face the actual need to send troops 'into-harms-way' during his tenure in office. As Spock said in Star Trek, "only Nixon can go to China", but its my guess that "only Kerry can restart the Draft".

If Bush wins, He's going to have to remove about half of his cabinet, as they clearly seem to have left the reservation. Rumsfield, as much as I love the guy, is getting a bit old. Powell looks to me like he is screaming face down into his sofa cushions during most evenings. So, While I still think Bush will win, It hardly means that everything is going to be "happy fun time". The left in this country and the world is not going to roll out the red carpet and support him no matter how many people he liberates and brings freedom. Bush will never get nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, while Arafat has one on his mantle. Bush will always be seen as the devil himself, despite the 25 million people who live in freedom today that didnt before he took office. How many people did Carter liberate? Arafat?. Compare and contrast, Reagan and Bush "The Great Liberators", Carter and Clinton, "The Great Prevaricators". Who is more loved and by whom? If I were a Pole, whos father spent 60 days in the Gdansk shipyard, against a tryannical murdering government my answer might be different than that of the spoiled babies in Moveon.org in this country. If being attacked and going to war can't get your oppostion party to back you up, theres not much thats ever going to do it.

For Bush, its another 4 years of sitting at the top of a cultural civil war. For just $225,000 a year, to be called "Worse than Nixon or Hitler", to have every single movement you make scruitinzied, to go to bed every single night knowing what most of us never will know about the ongoing of covert and overt actions around the world, it's no wonder Presidents always look like freshly hammered dog crap after they leave office.

We will survive, we will prevail. Let's not get our knickers in a twist. I dont care how you dress these guys up, they all sound like the Honorable Gov. William J. Lepetomaine so Let's not try to deify these guys too much.

Favorite quote: "Gentleman!, We've got to do something to save our Phony Baloney Jobs !"

So tonight, I see theres a new show called "Wing Nuts" on Discovery channel. I Guess I'll have to check that out. Why the rest of you are watching a "debate", I have no idea. Life is too short for that much bile production.

UPDATE: A lot of people have written to tell me "Conservative blogger Andrew Sullivan hasn't made up his mind, so theres still alot of people who havent made up their mind about Bush." . Ok kids, I like Andrew Sullivan, He is a fine writer and his thoughtful on many things he says. He's changed my mind on more than a few things. but those of you who think that he hasn't made up his mind also think that Andy is still just waiting for the right girl to come along. Andy is a one issue voter, and he sees Bush and Cheney on the wrong side of that issue, no debate is going to change his mind on that.

Posted @ October 05, 2004 06:08 PM | Election 2004 | Comments (10)

History's Forgotten Forgers: Epstein

I was trying to think of when I had seen a worse case of forgery, and then it hit me:

Welcome Back, Kotter! Circa 1975.

The I noticed the actors name who played "Epstein" - Robert Hedyes

Could this be the same person referenced as "Hodges" in this Washington Post piece:

"Yesterday, another retired Air National Guard officer came forward to attack the network's credibility. Retired Maj. Gen. Bobby W. Hodges, who was cited by a senior CBS official on Thursday as the network's "trump card" in verifying the documents, said in an interview that he was "misled" by CBS and believes the documents to be forgeries. "
Hodges, Hedyes. It could be true. I want it to be true, therefore it must be true.

EPSTEIN FORGED THE NOTES!

Posted @ September 13, 2004 11:04 AM | Election 2004 | Comments (1)

Occams Razor

I'd like to turn 'occams razor' on the CBS documents for just a second and ask a simple questsion:

"What evidence is there that can clearly verify that they ARE what CBS says they are?"

From the top of the document to the bottom we have every indication that the documents are frauds and bad ones at that. I'd like someone, anyone, anywhere to give me one thing on these documents that will help me say "ok, I cant get around that one - they must be real".

I can take one or maybe two things that seem odd, but the preponderance of evidence presented shows that they can only be fruads. For me, the PO BOX of '34567' makes my 'baloney detector' peg all the way over into the red. I guess '1212 boogieboogie Ave.' was just too over the top, even for them.

This is like someone throwing a pie plate in the air, taking a picture, and then insisting that I believe its a real spaceship from Tau Ceti, 'proof at last' of life in outerspace!

It's not that I don't want to believe in life on Tau Ceti, and if presented with evidence that shows it, that I wouldn't believe it when presented with it. However, when you are reduced to tossing pie plates into the sky, it makes me think that you really don't have a case, and maybe you should go home to your apartment over your parents garage and read your comic books. To make matters worse, it makes me think that you think I'm stupid, which is a really good way to make sure I don't listen to you ever again, even if you do get real pictures of Tau Ceti Spaceships.

There's an old saying that applies here that says 'extraordinary claims require extraordinary proofs". If you want me to believe your case, that Bush was a malingering patrician familiy advantage pusher, I'm willing to accept that, if given evidence that says it's so.

But when the evidence that has been put in front of me shows:

- A clearly faked PO BOX

- Is not on paper of the type used in military documents ( onion skin)

- Uses the wrong letterhead, and appears to be referencing the wrong group in relation to the Squadron.

- Has the wrong referenced regulation

- Uses nomenclature not used in military documents of the same era

- Cannot be sourced to the location where these little gems have resided for the past 35 years

- Does not contain distribution notes at the bottom for filing.

- Is not based on originals only on copies not in possesion by those performing authentication

- Facts purported are in direct opposition to all other known documentation of the subject.

I'm not going to even get into the fact that the presented documents are clearly not produced by a typewriter. If CBS is correct then any other document available from the same organization at the same vintage should look similar. Simple answer, They dont - or we would see side by side comparisons.

I wonder if CBS had the good sense to go to the secretarial pool of their vast enterprise and ask one of the grand old ladies who surely work there what they thought about the documents or if they could replicate such a thing.

Update: What I think we got here kids is a good old fashioned case of what we pilots call "get-there-itis". "Get-there-itis" affects otherwise smart and capable pilots who put an overriding priority on the need to "get there" and as a result, overlook the basic safety practices in flying. "Get-there-itis" is why year after year, pilots of great acclaim manage to stuff their aircraft into mountains, land downwind during thunderstorms and crash in flames, run out of gas, or simply get lost; Ameila Earhart serves as but one 'poster child' for this disease.

CBS is an organization with a great history of solid journalism. The producer of this piece on GWB's military history is also the producer who found the abu girab story, she is obviously good at her job. Dan Rather is most certainly a good journalist. So what happened? How did people so smart and professional allow themselves to 'fly into a mountain'?.

What I think happened here is that they needed "the story" to be true, so much so that they left themselves open to the suggestion that the information in the documents proffered were in point of fact true, when nearly all objective observers outside of "the bubble" see the information for the clear fraud that it surely is.

The 'fever swamp' that opposes President Bush also needs the story to be true. They need it so much that there are many websites that are offering real cash money for any and all documents the 'prove' that bush was a malingering drunk while in service.

Enter,stage left - the producer, eager to continue her trend of headline breaking ( hopefully president breaking ) "news". Enter stage right - thousands of people only too willing to provide documentation for something they all know is true anyway( so what could be the harm in just making it up?) and you have all the makings of a full sized self-hallucinatory 'endulgence'.

Hey-presto-chango-hey-diddle-diddle and out pops a fraud. No one did it on purpose, no one involved thinks thats what they are doing, but that is in fact, what has happened. There are times when a hoax just takes on a life of its own, and this is one of those times.

I have lots of friends who really REALLY believe in UFO's. I don't, because frankly I've seen too many of them. One trick I love to play on them is to take them out at night into an area of good darkness and get them to talk openly about UFOs and what they believe about UFO's. A couple of beers helps. All the while I keep an eye on my watch, because before we left for this little trip, I managed to look up when the next 'iridium flare' would occur in the area.

When the flare occurs, (always like clockwork), I act shocked and then I let the victim go on and on to exclaim how that "it must've been a UFO- Theres no other explanation! ". They go on to tell me that I must agree with them now, after all I've just seen one with my own eyes! They can't wait to take me back to civilization, one of the newly converted to the great cause.

When we return to the car, I pull out the printed copy ofthe 'iridium flare' prediction. At that point, they know they have been had.

Interestingly enough, there is still a large percentage of people who when presented with the facts, still insist that it mustve been something more exotic, it just HAD to be a UFO!

So, what do I think we have with the CBS documents? What we have is the need to tell a story overriding the basic 'safety factors' of good journalism. The result is that a whole series of good journalists convinced themselves that they could 'scud-run' around the low clouds of a dangerous story, because, well, they were long time professionals who had taken chances like this thousands of times before and could get away with it again.

This is very similar to what is often the last thing that otherwise good pilots say on the last flights of their lives.

The real shame of this story isnt that a promising producer will take the fall for a poorly executed story, but an entire organization, made up of many good people who are truly innocent in this affair will suffer because of one persons overriding desire to 'get home'.

UPDATE I: The boys at Wizbang are on the case of who the actual forger is.

UPDATE II: A good breakdown by a good ( e.g. not a bush supporter) source can be found here.

Posted @ September 11, 2004 02:32 PM | Election 2004 | Comments (5)

You know what I dont like?

· People who feel the only real threat to world peace are people who wish to be free.

· People who think the defense and expansion of human liberty are “cultural imperialism”, but slavery and genocide are simply "cultural misunderstandings".

· People who think ‘freedom’ and ‘liberty’ are just fallacies for small-minded religious nuts.

· People who insist on their ‘right to free speech’, yet make death threats at others for simply speaking in opposition.

· People who say “dissent is patriotic” yet condemn any overt display of patriotism.

· People who believe that peace comes into being by any other process, except capitulation.

· People who cannot accept the reality of the evil that men do.

· People who decry crass commercialism, and then condemn the desire to find meaning in ones life.

· People who think that there was no world before they were born and that the world will end when they die.

· People who forget the sacrifices of their ancestors.

· People who fail to understand what a miracle their life really is.

· How every man who defends freedom is considered 'another Hitler', while every Socialist dictator is considered a "true savior of mankind”.

· The way people say they “support the troops”, yet deride their service and sacrifice at every opportunity.

· The way most everyone fails to recognize the simple elegance of a sunrise.

· The way I learned to accept the act of stepping over homeless people on the way to work as something normal.

· The quiet shame I feel for never having served my country.

· The way I miss my father and he’s not even gone.

· The way this time of year I look over my shoulder and I talk in hushed tones every time I hear a siren, hoping that the nightmare hasn’t returned.

· The dread I feel when I turn on the TV or the radio first thing in the morning. The silent hope of wishing that the first thing I hear is a commercial, knowing if I do, that things are ‘normal’.

· The way I choke back tears every time I see the WTC in the backdrop of a movie.

· The grief I feel when I think of all that we’ve gone through since that black day.

· The sadness I feel when I think of how far we have to go.

Posted @ September 08, 2004 10:26 PM | Election 2004 | Comments (3)

I got yer bounce right here...

Theres only one sound that can go with this, from your friend and mine Gary Oldman

Posted @ September 03, 2004 01:01 PM | Election 2004 | Comments (0)

Overheard on IM:( The new water cooler)

Best quotes overheard last night at the cyber water-cooler of Instant Messenger:

While we all of us on our chat session loved the Presidents speech, the real show of the evening was watching Kerrys attempt to get back in the game afterwards

SNIP...
K**ry's now runnin' like a scalded dog

SNIP...
You know anyone with a car in their driveway from 1968?
Then why in the hell would anyone want to put a man in the whitehouse who still thinks its 1968?

SNIP...
Holy Christ!, he just said Vietnam again. If you took that word out of vocabulary, you'd get nothing out of his piehole but but the words "I and Me".

SNIP..
Who's bright idea was it to keep a 60 year old man up past midnight to give a speech?

SNIP...
Is there anyone on the planet that doesnt look at this as sad and pathetic?

SNIP...
Just like a politician from Massachusetts to schedule a rally at midnight on a weeknight completely ignoring that people have to get up in the morning get the kids to school and go to work.

(reply)

You say that like he ever got up for work and got the kids to school or knew anyone who did.

Posted @ September 03, 2004 08:53 AM | Election 2004 | Comments (1)

Ron Silver: A Man

Note to the Left:
You can keep Michael Moore. If the world was full of liberals like Ron Silver, the world would be a much safer place.

Note to the Right:
Is that not the most moving thing you ever did see?

Note to the kids:
Thats what a man looks like.

This is one place where the medium of the web cannot begin to capture the beauty of the moment.

Posted @ August 30, 2004 06:03 PM | Election 2004 | Comments (1)

Varifrank Channels the Ghost of Andy Rooney

Didja ever notice how before the summer of 2004, all Vietnam vets portrayed by the media were mentally scarred desheveled homeless men shooting at college students from rooftops, but now that one Vietnam vet is running for president, he and he alone is a hero for his acts in Vietnam, while those Vets that oppose him still remain portrayed as scarred desheveled homeless men shooting at college students from a rooftops? Whats worse, they're obviously republicans who can't be trusted, the enemies of mankind... whisper....whisper....whisper

Didja ever notice how the words "Texas Oilman" has become a substitute for "klansman" by many people who consider themselves enlightend by NPR beyond the shoddy banks of bigotry?

Didja ever notice how people who call themselves "Democrats" are the first to argue that "Democracy isnt for everyone" and are willing to tolerate the most undemocratic leaders ( stalin-mao-mihn-hussien-mugabe-chavez) the world has ever known, as long the "dear leader' uses the magic words " but it's for the people"?

Didja ever notice that it used to be Democrats who worked and believed in freedom and liberty for all mankind and Republicans worked only for big business and now its Republicans who want to make everyone free and the Democrats working for big business?

Didja ever wonder when it was that Democrats became the conservatives and Republicans became the liberals?

UPDATE I: A reader writes to advise me that Andy Rooney is not dead. My response -"Have you seen his act lately"? Unless I see a doctors note, I'm going to assume hes been replaced by a character from Disneys Animatronics display, from the "hall of forgotten gasbags"
UPDATE II:Captain Ed gives both testimony and evidence backing my parody.

Posted @ August 19, 2004 10:07 PM | Election 2004 | Comments (6)