I gradumacated!

sorry i haven't communicated. JO: Escalation is going gold muy soon and so i've been burning the 4 am oil. but fret not, i'll have even more predictibly anti-bush opinions in the very near future. actually i hope i can start focusing my criticism on kerry very soon...

meritocracy sucks

"The business meritocracy is in vogue. If meritocrats believe, as more and more of them are encouraged to, that their advancement comes from their own merits, they can feel they deserve whatever they can get.

They can be insufferably smug, much more so than the people who knew they had achieved advancement not on their own merit but because they were, as somebody's son or daughter, the beneficiaries of nepotism. The newcomers can actually believe they have morality on their side." --Michael Young, the man who invented the word

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debate episode II: the empire smokes crack

i thought kerry tore bush a new tuchas. i thought bush looked like a spoiled brat sans le facts, and kerry like a wordy statesman. that it is largely being called a draw makes me think of one thing:

but who cares what i thought, let's turn it over to the great factcheck.org: "Both candidates played loose with the facts at the second Presidential Debate in St. Louis Oct. 8. Bush claimed Kerry's health-care plan would lead to rationing and "ruin the quality of health care in America," a claim unsupported by neutral experts. Kerry claimed the Bush administration had forced the Army Chief of Staff to retire for pushing to send more troops to Iraq, but in fact he retired on schedule.

We offer a sampler of the dubious and sometimes false statements made by each of the candidates." -Summary of factcheck.org's post debate review

"Saddam was "a major and growing threat to the international community" with "an insatiable appetite for weapons of mass destruction," Rice said." --Edwards Disputes Rice on Iraq Invasion, Yahoo News so now we attacked another country bacause of an "appetite" for weaons? The nice thing about an appetite is that nobody can actually prove it wasn't there, unlike actual physical things... If he had an appetite for weapons it means he DIDN'T HAVE ANY. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

on a whim

i was supposed to meet up with a friend of mine that i've known since high school, but we couldn't get in touch. when i got off work around 9 or so, i visited a buddy from EAP at Chili's in thousand oaks. i had some beers and rapped with his parents about politics. We were all generally in agreement: bush is a disingenuous piece of poopy poo. A german auto mechanic and his drunk wife were also there. He told us that mercedes are pretty much bad news these days, same with bmw. Too many electronics and not enough quality control, said he. he recommended lexus. the japanese understand electronics better and keep things more streamlined. i took off around 11, planning to go home, but on a whim i dropped by Sonny's, to see if a friend was there. She was. we caught up a bit and then i took off for home again. on a whim I decided to drop into the gas lite and sing a number. the bar was packed. i got a bushmills on ice and thought of gonzo. i cued up a song and waited. my first time in a bar in months, and i was alone, and waiting. finally it was my turn, so i sang my stones song like a [hu]man, and then left. i only hope i can exit this mortal coil with such grace.

it looks like kerry was right on the wood thing, fyi , seriously, do you want this guy (the rude one) with his finger on the button? , tim ryan actually seems to care

"The Duelfer report showed that Saddam was systematically gaming the system, using the U.N. oil-for-food program to try to influence countries and companies in an effort to undermine sanctions," Bush said as he prepared to fly to campaign events in Wisconsin. "He was doing so with the intent of restarting his weapons program once the world looked away." --George W. Bush This is George's way of saying that saddam wasn't doing anything very dangerious when we invaded Iraq, violating international law and the will of the world. It would also have been a violation of the will of America except we were fed horseshit by someone. Nobody in the white house is holding anyone accountable. On Nov. 2 is a day of reckoning-- or a day of wrecking-- or a day of wreaking.

was there a plan to edward's hesitancy?

one of the criticisms i've heard regarding edwards debate performance is that cheney said a lot of BS that edwards didn't swat down. in general, i thought edwards didn't say much new, he just stuck to the same messages that kerry used successfully in the first debate. i had assumed this was because the kerry campaign didn't want to mess with what was working. cheney had clearly come up with counter-arguments to many of these messages, making the cheney-edwards match pretty much a draw. now i'm thinking/hoping that there was a reason for this strategy. cheney and the bush campaign had to retool and rebut, so they did homework and came up with defenses for some stuff... and now the kerry campaign can respond to these new arguments in the more important debates, instead of using damning evidence in a VP debate where nobody cares and giving the bush people a chance to prep him on responses. am i giving the kerry people too much credit? because if this is the plan it's pretty sweet.

sweet sweet irony

remember how cheney said go to factcheck.com, though he meant factcheck.org? kinda like the time bush sent people after saddam instead of osama. well factcheck.org, which rules, did a run down of the vp debate which is worth reading in full. here is their summarized version: "Summary

Cheney wrongly implied that FactCheck had defended his tenure as CEO of Halliburton Co., and the vice president even got our name wrong. He overstated matters when he said Edwards voted "for the war" and "to commit the troops, to send them to war." He exaggerated the number of times Kerry has voted to raise taxes, and puffed up the number of small business owners who would see a tax increase under Kerry's proposals.

Edwards falsely claimed the administration "lobbied the Congress" to cut the combat pay of troops in Iraq, something the White House never supported, and he used misleading numbers about jobs."

dick, i seriously owe you one on this factcheck thing, you should try it yourself.

best link i've posted in months

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Damnable Lies

"Paul Schur, a spokesman for the network, said Fox's chief political correspondent Carl Cameron had been disciplined for posting an item on FoxNews.com that included several made-up quotes attributed to Kerry." --Fox News Channel admits reporter posted fake story about Kerry Re-re-re-reprimanded?! Now, I understand that Carl Cameron is no Dan Rather, and that the content here is not as sombre as what is at issue in the CBS piece. However, Fox's "chief political correspondent" admitedly made stuff up! And foxnews.com published it! There are no memos here to debate, just straight from the dome falsehoods. It's so indefensible that they fessed right up to it, what else can they do? Therefore one may be led to believe that the story was indeed intended to be a joke. OK, let's assume this is the case for the sake of argument. For what venue was a fair and balanced news organization creating such a story? Intra-office humor? I don't think so. EVEN AS SATIRE, in october we expect SNL to give equal time to Bush and Kerry, but Fox's made up story that accidentially got published did no such thing. Therefore it is unfair even as satire. Any which way, if Carl is only getting reprimanded, a web producer somewhere should be getting fired.

don't forget!

the more i think about it the better it seems like the debate went. here's what the bush cheney campaign thinks: "Debate Highlights: JOHN KERRY'S INABILITY TO CLOSE HIS CREDIBILITY GAP OR ARTICULATE A CLEAR FOREIGN POLICY VISION

Kerry Flip-Flops On Iraq's Ties To Al Qaeda

Tonight's Flip: In Response To Question Four John Kerry Said Iraq Was Not Close To The War On Terror Until The President Invaded It.

Yesterday's Flop: Kerry Warned Of Saddam's Ties To Terrorism. SEN. JOHN KERRY: "[T]here are set of principles here that are very large, larger in some measure than I think has been adequately conveyed, both internationally and certainly to the American people. Saddam Hussein has already used these weapons and has made it clear that he has the intent to continue to try, by virtue of his duplicity and secrecy, to continue to do so. That is a threat to the stability of the Middle East. It is a threat with respect to the potential of terrorist activities on a global basis. It is a threat even to regions near but not exactly in the Middle East." (Sen. John Kerry, Press Conference, 2/23/98)" --georgewbush.com

Yesterday's flip is actually five and a half year's ago flip. But I guess if he said it in 1998 it must be apply to 2004, right? And by the way, tonight kerry said Iraq was not even close to the CENTER of the war on terror until the president invaded it. Details shmeetails. Being president is hard work. If this is at the top of their fact finding review, Kerry kicked ass. I think he may have marginalized the effectiveness of that tactic.

debate episode one: a new hope

the game is afoot. i think kerry was very effective and bush lost a lot of momentum. kerry didn't hit a triple, but i'll grant him a a double. he still needs to convert it into something on the scoreboard. if you like bush you still like bush, but if you are truly undecided, than i think this may have you considering kerry in a whole new light. what did you folks think?