If you could hijack Bush's earpiece tonight - what would you tell him?

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Friday October 08, 2004 · 9:15 AM PDT

2004/10/08 · 09:15

Just assuming all the rumors are true ... and someone is feeding Bush his talking points, and you had a scrambler and could take over the signal - what would you feed him? He'd probably just repeat anything.

Remind him to keep mentioning the trip to Mars?

Ask Kerry why he voted against the "Star-69 Hovercraft" 8 times?

We created 96,000 CEOs this month?

The War in Iraq is over?

This is the first time I've met you Mr. Kerry?

Or just keep saying "You're gonna lose" over and over every time the moderator asks a question so he can't hear what's coming.

This morning's AP story on Bush's TNG records is crap

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Wednesday September 08, 2004 · 6:14 AM PDT

2004/09/08 · 06:14

Off the Yahoo front page:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040908/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_national_guard&am p;cid=544&ncid=716

The Headline is
Lawsuit Uncovers New Bush Guard Records

Pretty early on we see:

Supporters of Democratic nominee John Kerry (news - web sites), a decorated Vietnam combat veteran, have criticized Bush for serving stateside in the National Guard.

No No No! Kerry supporters have criticized Bush for being AWOL and getting placed in the Guard as a political favor, not for simply serving. That would be an insult to everyone in the Guard today.

The majority of the article is about finding the records and Bush ranking in the middle of his class (not that big a deal to me). The phrase that records indicate a "lapse of duty" do not appear until 541 words into the story - that's 11 paragraphs into an 18 paragraph story.

Sorry I don't know how to do the cool block quotes Read More

My argument with Nader-folk at the rally ...

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Monday August 30, 2004 · 8:59 AM PDT

2004/08/30 · 08:59

First off, I can't decide if it was good or bad that there was so little Kerry/Edwards paraphanelia at the march. I half expected to be marching up 7th ave chanting "Kerry/Edwards" in joyous call and response but it was all anti-Bush (and fox news). There wasn't none - but I feel like Nader/Camejo and "f7ck bush, f7ck Kerry, revolution is necessary" camps were more organized and visible. I'm not talking about the arrests - they were all peaceful, I'm just talking about visibility relative to K/E.

I'd think it was a bad sign that there wasn't much K/E enthusiasm, but part of me doesn't want them associated with some of the nonsense that was piggybacking onto the anti-bush sentiment (Confidential to the old hippies dancing and chanting "Don't be scared, peace has been declared": umm, what are you talking about? this is kind of a somber march - there's thousands of people dying and we might lose the election if we don't get the vote out)

Anyway, I got into an argument with some Nader kids chanting "John Kerry voted for George Bush's war". I pointed out that he hadn't and that there was no vote for or against the war. If Kerry was president we'd want him to have the authority to go into Iraq if necessary - and we'd rightfully expect him not to have done it like W did. My favorite line was when the kid said "You're talking semantics while people are dying", and I said "and you're chaning and lying like a Swift Boat Veteran" (of course, the SBV is capitalized because I'm not talking about swift boat veterans in general)

anyway, we need more enthusiasm out there for the ticket. Go Johnny go.

Nice Sullivan column fisking Bush

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Tuesday July 13, 2004 · 11:44 AM PDT

2004/07/13 · 11:44

Most diary entries give Andrew Sullivan a hard time, and I certainly don't agree with everything he says. For one BIG one, his theory that Democrats have no clue how to fight a war on terror is without merit and as close-minded as saying all Republicans are tools of corporate greed.

Despite this, when he's on (which, I admit my bias, seems to be when he agrees with me) I do think he's a good writer and I find nothing but good stuff here:

http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?pt=GlmwvqzL6WrDXocb4MCjHh%3D%3D

Where to donate - if not for Kerry?

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Thursday March 04, 2004 · 4:57 PM PST

2004/03/04 · 16:57

Just looking for suggestions. Here's my deal:

I want to financially support the defeat of George W. Bush. I found Kerry's support of a Massachussetts State constitutional ammendment to ban gay marriage and some of his "marriage is for procreation" nonsense to be so offensive that I am not willing to send him money directly (he DOES have my vote in November as the best candidate of the bunch)

My problem with giving money to MoveOn (right now) is similar to why some people have said they don't want a Clinton on the ticket - some of the opposition is so anti-MoveOn after the Hitler incident that a MoveOn ad could inadvertently mobilize the opposition

Any other recommended organizations that are spreading the good word? Should I just give up and donate to Kerry? It is rare to have someone at his level talking about ending the death penalty ... among his many better-than-Bush ideas.

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