Not so sure he's greeting us as liberators

A wounded Iraqi boy lies in his hospital bed in Fallujah, after several overnight air raids hit his village of Zoba, some 16 kms south of Fallujah.(AFP/Fares Dlimi) Read the rest of this post...

Fascinating Colorado poll

It's very interesting to see the details of this battleground state poll. I'm thinking more and more that Kerry needs to say "the country is going in the wrong direction, it's on the wrong track" - i.e., parrot the language of the polls. Also interesting is that those who worry most about "Iraq" favor Kerry, those who worry about "terror" favor Bush. Again, an intstructive lesson on word-smithing.

Six weeks before Election Day, the Republican incumbent leads the Massachusetts Democrat 45 percent to 44 percent among Coloradans. That's 8 points less than Bush's lead in April and well within the new poll's margin of error...

More than half the respondents - 53 percent - said the country is on the wrong track, compared to 42 percent who said it's going in the right direction. That's comparable to what the recent national poll found.

Coloradans who answered "wrong track" heavily favored Kerry. So did independent voters.

Kerry has eroded Colorado's Republican registration advantage by opening a 20-point lead, 50 to 30, over Bush among independents, the state's second-largest voting block. Both men are holding tightly to their party bases.

The senator has increased his overall standing with voters on four key issues since April. He's widened his edge over Bush on the question of who would best handle affordable health care, and he's taken the lead on handling the economy.

Bush rates comfortably higher on handling national security and "the situation in Iraq," though his advantage has shrunk in both areas. Poll respondents also prefer the president, 50 percent to 42 percent, as the country's commander in chief.

The poll showed what Weigel called "a cultural divide" among Colorado voters. For example:

• Bush leads by 10 points among veterans and their family members and among people who know someone who has served in Iraq or Afghanistan in the past year.

Kerry leads by 6 points in households without a veteran and by 11 points among people who don't know any troops serving in the Middle East.

• Kerry leads by 36 points among Hispanic voters. Bush leads by 8 points among white voters.

• A gender gap persists: Bush leads by 7 points among men and Kerry leads by the same margin among women.

Issues divided respondents even more dramatically.

The poll asked people what topic mattered most to them in picking a president. Topping the list were terrorism and national security (23 percent), economy and jobs (23 percent) and the Iraq situation (16 percent).

Those who picked Iraq were twice as likely to favor Kerry, 56 percent to 25.

Those who picked terrorism and security overwhelmingly backed Bush, 81 percent to 14.

Those who chose the economy gave Kerry a huge edge, 70 percent to 17.

Kerry's path to victory is ripping Bush on the economy, Weigel said - and Bush's is blasting Kerry on security.

Equally important in the close race, analysts agree, is which side gets more supporters to the ballot box.

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Cheney thinks we're going to be in Iraq for 13 years?

"I'd remind you how long it took us. From the time we wrote our Declaration of Independence until we had a constitution in place and a democratically elected government that we could live with was 13 years, 1776 to 1789. So we shouldn't be surprised if there are bumps along the way. There will be." - Dick Cheney, LA Times

So how fucking long are we going to be there, 13 years? So, 13,000 American deaths is what we're talking? Read the rest of this post...

Two U.S. Soldiers Killed by Baghdad Car Bomb

President Bush killed their sons. Read the rest of this post...

Bush Warns of Worsening Violence in Iraq

Flip fucking flop. And just two days ago they were doing great. Read the rest of this post...

Friends of Dr. Laura

Right, our problem with Dr. Laura is that she's anti-pedophilia and we're pro-pedophilia. Where do they get these people? And gee, wonder who he's voting for?

From: "Baer Home" baerhome@spiritone.com
Subject: Stop Dr. Laura?
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 11:25:29 -0700

This morning I surfed web to find Dr. Laura's web site and noticed the name of your site and clicked on it -- I'll admit that I didn't read every line but has Dr. Laura made you her *enemy by telling you the truth?

If men write her and tell her that they prey on young boys and she reports this, your group thinks it is wrong to tell about this?

It is WRONG to be predators to children.

I have listened to Dr. Laura quite a few years now and my line is "She is all law and little grace -- but she makes lots of sense." The one thing that I have noticed in her defense on the radio show is that I have never heard her bash homosexuals -- she bashes people who do evil; preying on children IS evil. I say, "You go girl, Dr. Laura!"

*Galatians 4:16 Amplified Bible
Have I then become your enemy by telling the truth to you and dealing sincerely with you?

Now, go take on the day!

The 3 Baer's

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Christian conservative leader invokes Bush while saying he'd gladly murder gays

Religious right leader and televangelist Jimmy Swaggart invoked George Bush's name today, and Bush's support for the Federal Marriage Amendment, while telling his parishioners that he'd gladly murder any gay man who looked at him the wrong way. I am so kidding you not. (You can see the video here, start watching around minute 36:30 - courtesy of Atrios, Jesus' General and Hairy Fish Nuts).

This little son of a bitch said he would kill a gay man and then lie about it, saying the guy just died on his own, and his parishioners roared with approval. Then he praised God George Bush was a president willing to stand up to the gays by supporting the constitutional amendment.

I'm sorry, but in today's day and age if you go on TV and tell millions of Americans that it's ok, and downright godly, to murder gay people, and you said it while invoking the name of the president, then I think we have a problem that the Justice Department needs to investigate, and at the very least, the president needs to distance himself from this nutjob who is invoking the president's name in the same breath with murder.

As an aside, you might remember that Jimmy Swaggart is the guy who got caught hooking up with a New Orleans hooker. If you don't remember one of these great moments in TV history, click here to see Swaggart admitting he's a SINNER, and read more about Swaggart's fornication here. Read the rest of this post...

Osama is voting for Bush

For the first time, a senior Bush administration official has publicly claimed that the insurgents in Iraq are Kerry supporters. Yes, Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage had the gall yesterday to suggest that insurgents in Iraq have stepped up their deadly assaults in recent weeks because they want to "influence the election against President Bush."

Putting aside the idiocy of Armitage's statement, and the clear scare tactics he's invoking. And putting aside the fact that Armitage has just lowered this administration's already-questionable credibility on whether or not we should believe their terror talk now or in the future. I got to thinking about who Osama would actually prefer in office, come November. And the answer was clear: Osama would vote for Bush.

Why? Because Bush is an insurgent's wet dream.

One of the first things you learn about insurgencies if you actually go to school to study such things (now there's an idea: Send Bush to college on Nov 2), is that while their goal is to take power, their strategy is to create the conditions in which that power is practically handed to them.

How? By forcing the government's hand into getting more and more radical, more and more punitive, forcing them to clamp down on civil liberties, to send in more troops, to blow up more cities and villages, and to basically kill more people until the population at large has had it. In essense, the revolutionaries force the people in power to create the conditions in which the revolution happens on its own, and the people end up practically begging the insurgents to step in and make it all stop.

So why does that mean Osama would vote for Bush? Because Bush is the one presidential candidate proven to be a pro at creating the conditions the insurgents need to foment a revolution in Iraq, and Bush is the one candidate who has made clear that no matter how bad things get in Iraq, not matter how much proof he's given that his current policy is a disaster, he will stick to his guns and continue to do what he's doing, even if it means taking everybody down with him. Bush is the one candidate stupid enough, and arrogant enough, and obstinate enough to walk into a trap that's already staring him in the face just so he can claim he never blinks in the face of danger. The problem is that George W. Bush confuses danger with failure.

And that is why Osama bin Laden and the insurgents in Iraq would vote for President Bush. They simply cannot afford a Kerry presidency that runs the risk of straightening this entire fiasco out, and ultimately stabilizing Iraq and the region. Read the rest of this post...

CONTEST FINALISTS

Here are the finalists for the Freeway Blogger contest, described in a post below. Read what the contest is about via the link above (basically, one of these slogans will become a sign posted on the overpass to a large freeway so ten thousand people will read it), then read through these and let's start a discussion in the comments about which is your favorite. This isn't a real vote here - think more like Florida, you express your opinion but someone else decides. But I'd still like all your input as to which one you prefer. Thanks, JOHN

THE FINALISTS ARE...

Can you feel a draft?

Liberate America.

We have nothing to fear but fear itself.

Osama Bin Laughing

Leave no child in charge.

WAR MORE YEARS

Step One: Admit that there's a problem.
Step Two: Vote for Kerry

God Bless our Troops.
God Forgive our Leaders.

Orwell was only off by twenty years.

DESERTERS SHOULDN'T START WARS!

“My President went to Baghdad, and all I got was this $1,000,000,000,000 deficit.”

Hating Bush....
Not just for Europeans anymore.

Safer without Saddam? Maybe.
Safer without Bush? DEFINITELY.

BC04: STRONG but WRONG

It's his job or yours.
Fire Bush.

IRAQuagmire

Iraqis don't get to meet Laura Bush.
They get to meet Lynndie England.

"President Bush killed my son."

"THANKS, GEORGE!
LOVE, OSAMA"

POOR BOYS DIE IN RICH MEN'S WARS

You don't really believe Bush is a good president.

Osama still has his job . . .
DO YOU STILL HAVE YOURS?

Yes, Saddam would slaughter his own people.
But beating him to it is not a moral victory.

Got Osama?

GOD BLESS OUR TROOPS...
...GOD FORGIVE OUR LEADERS.

BUSH - COMMANDER 'N CHEAT

When people THINK, Kerry wins

Leave No Child in Charge.
Boot Bush.

BUSH/CHENEY 2004
WHY CHANGE HORSEMEN MID APOCALYPSE?

WAR STARTS WITH DUBYA!

Has it really been 4 years?
Seems much, much longer.

Do YOU want a president who goes to war because God tells him to?

Are you safer now than you were four years ago?

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Another election, another loss of votes in Florida

Could they try any harder to screw up any more than this? They're saying the votes were eventually all counted but c'mon, this is getting old.

Hillsborough County residents cast the ballots before the Aug. 31 election on an ATM-style machine set up at a library, said Elections Supervisor Buddy Johnson. A member of Johnson's staff left the machine, made by Sequoia Voting Systems, in test mode. The votes were recorded and stored but not counted until they were found Friday.

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Fewer jobs in Ohio and Missouri, Scotty boy says economy "moving forward"

Wow! Almost 11,000 job losses in Ohio in August and 5,500 in Missouri. Kerry ought to be able to hammer that point home and bring the race back to even in those states. Ohio is completely dominated by the GOP at the state level so there are no excuses. This is how Republican policy plays out when there are no checks and balances.

"Ohio needs some good news," acknowledged Treasury Secretary John Snow in remarks at a worker retraining roundtable at Hondros College in Westerville, Ohio.

White House spokesman Scott McClellan, asked if Bush was concerned that Ohio was still losing jobs, said Friday's employment figures "continue to show that the economy is moving forward, and because of the policies that this president has implemented."

I don't know what's more surprising: The White House managing to talk around facts or voters who are oblivious to them.
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Al Jazeera breaking news: group threatens to kill Americans and Brit who were recently captured

Now tell me again how we're safer? Is this how we show strength to terrorists?
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Free and on the road to democracy Iraq with a new deadly car bomb

I think when the Bushies say "free" they mean "free to do pretty much anything because there's less and less security." The death toll from the bombing today currently at 23. I think that Kerry's charge yesterday of the Bush trickery makes great sense because attention needs to get back to the events of today. Bush has managed to make Iraq a non-issue in the election but globally speaking, it's the biggest issue out there. I hear too many grumbles from Democratic leaning people that they want to hear about Iraq, healthcare and the economy. Nice move by Kerry to get the topic back to what matters in 2004.
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Saddam "hoped" to get WMD "someday" - this is now the rationale for war

I think this is like the, what, 10th different rationale Bush has now given us for going to war. We've moved from "weapons of mass destruction program related activities" to "hope." Yes, hope. According to the Wash Post, Bush is now saying that we went to war in Iraq because Saddam "hoped" to someday get WMD, so we blew up his country and killed over 1000 Americans and climbing. Hope. That's it. That's the Bush pre-emption policy. You hope it, you die.

Then Bush added the following:

"Knowing what I know today, I would have made the same decision."

Well, that's interesting, because John Kerry has been beaten up in the media for saying he'd have gone in even if we knew there were no WMD. So Bush is saying he'd have launched this entire war, even if he knew there were NO WMD, simply because Saddam "hoped" to get them, even if he wasn't even trying to get them. Now that's a hell of a standard for sending a great nation to war. Read the rest of this post...

Let's see how happy they are when Bush drafts their sons to be killed in Iraq

Bush's strategists say he is trying to reach swing voters by showing how women benefit from his national security and economic policies, and it may be working. A few polls over the past month have shown him narrowing the gender gap that has dogged Republicans since Ronald Reagan's race in 1980. Pollsters said the change is largely because security has become a bigger issue for all voters, making 'security moms' one of this election's hot categories and displacing Democrat-friendly issues such as health care and education. - Wash Post

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Judges Rule for Nader in Election Boost for Bush

I will never, ever, do anything EVER again to support ANY organization associated with Ralph Nader. Can someone get the list together of groups affiliated with him? I think it's high-time we cut off his, and their, money. Read the rest of this post...