Giuliani Ousted From Iraq Study Panel

Rudy was too busy making money hand over fist to bother with the war He cited "previous time commitments" in a letter explaining his decision to quit, and a look at his schedule suggests why -- the sessions at times conflicted with Giuliani's lucrative speaking tour that garnered him $11.4 million in 14 months. (from newsday, actually) How sad is it that Mitt is looking like best in show? Tags:Rudy Giuliani Iraq presidential campaign Republicans

Al Gore Doesn't Take Lip From The Media

You can't mess with him, Diane SAWYER: And another point you say, "If Iraq had nothing to do with 9-11, the president took us into a war he didn't have to. Three thousand Americans and countless Iraqis died unnecessarily." Are you saying, in this book and this morning, that Americans -- 3,000 of them -- died unnecessarily? GORE: See, that's the kind of buzzword approach: "Is it an unnecessary death?" No. Those who serve our country are honored in memory and those who are still serving are always honored. That's not the question. There is hardly anybody in America left, Diane, who doesn't believe that it was a terrible mistake to invade a country that didn't attack us. Interestingly, Clinton did something similar a few months back on Fox with Chris Wallace. He simply would not let himself be bullied or manipulated. He called Wallace on it, and wouldn't relent. The thing is, I have always known Clinton to be a smart man, and Gore as well. To be honest, I don't think you get to the White House without being intelligent. GW may have the wisdom of a sack of rocks, but I doubt he's actually a moron. I can best sum up the difference between them with an analogy. Some people are just plain old good atheletes. These people have a natural talent that allows them to play sports, run fast, whatever. It came to them. Most don't have that, and they have to work harder to get as far. The thing is, natural talent does limit out. If you don't learn the new plays, if you don't learn how to read an opponant, you are just out of luck. The guy who has to work, though, has no choice but to laern those things. He has nothing to fall back on. He works, he learns, he gets better and better. He doesn't just 'do it', he understands the game. More topically, look at the most recent American Idol. Blake Lewis was not, in fact, the most talented voice there. But he understood music. He could make his own. I'm not putting down Ms. Sparks, or any of the other contestants. I'm sure that (at least some of them) worked very hard and practiced and all that. I'm just saying that Blake, once he gets his foot in the door, is more likely to have a long-lasting career in the music industry because he isn't relying on 'talent'. ANYHOW, isn't it interesting to watch these two guys, Bill and Al, take the bull by the horns? I wonder, what if all politicians decided that they weren't going to let the media push them around, weren't going to let the other side freely spread lies about them? And I'm talking about people on both sides. I really, REALLY, doubt that all those men up there during the recent Republican debate actually don't want gays to be out in the military. I find it even harder to believe that none of them believe in evolution. But if they were honest, they'd lose votes. The only way around that is to be open and blunt all the way. Tell people what you actually believe. Don't take a hit without hitting back. Be fighters. Tags:presidential election Al Gore Bill Clinton Fox News Assault On Reason MSM

Fox News Proves Our Point

Roger Ailes, owner of Fox News, on the topic of Dems not participating in his 'debate': “the candidates that can’t face Fox, can’t face Al Qaeda. And that’s what they have coming” No one proves Fox News is a bunch of fear-mongering-right-wing-nutjobs better than Fox News. Tags:Fox News presidential+election

Lies Lies Lies YEAH!, They're gonna getcha!

link So, at the Republican debate, Mr. Guliani drew a connection between Iraq and terrorism. This connection has been shown to simply not exist. Interestingly, both Gulie and Cheney have talked about this mythical connection in recent days. This is nothing more than playing on people's irrational fears, fears that fly (by definition) in the face of hard facts. Mitt, as well, seems confused about the IAEA. He seems to think that the IAEA didn't go into Iraq until after the war, and so we went in with the information we had at hand. Nice. Except, of course, Hans Blix and his team WERE in Iraq before the invasion. In fact, had Mitt been paying attention instead of…well…whatever else he was doing, he would have noticed that Hans had determined that here were no WMDs, that there was no meaningful intelligence that could seriously support the claim that the IAEA just hadn't found them yet. Lies or ignorance. Which is it, Mitt? The thing is, I've just gotten used to it. I've gotten used to the ChickenHawks tossing these lies around. That’s a bad thing. I think that, at every speaking event, at every single appearance on TV, the Democrats should show up with a written document listing off any of the lies uttered by any Republican. They should start any interview by reading the document, and then providing a web address where people can go and see the entire thing. Don't let one slip get through. Don't let them just make stuff up. If you do, then you don't deserve to win. Stand up. Fight. (Of course, this means that the Dems had best not tell any lies either. Which is a good thing.) Tags:Iraq lies WMD terrorism Republicans presidential election

So, at the Republican debate, Duncan Hunter of California said with regards to Iran's nuclear program: "I would authorize the use of tactical nuclear weapons if there was no other way to preempt those particular centrifuges" Right there is why no one should vote for this man. First, if you start nuking states to keep them from getting 'the bomb', exactly how are you better than anyone else? Second, all this will do is encourage people who already hate us to develop this technology Because now they KNOW it can get used against them. Third, you have to nuke the Korean peninsula Fourth, you have to nuke Israel. Fifth, and this is the big one, we all die. We nuke Iran. The Middle East, already not our biggest fan base, AND motivated by a eschatologically oriented religion, will see this as a sign for jihad. At that point, you will have no choice but to continue a massive, scortched earth campaign to quelle the region. You certainly won't have the conventional forces to do it. FURTHER, most of the rest of the world will oppose the initial nuking and will almost certainly stand against us. I can guarantee Moscow will, PyongYang, Beijing, etc. There's a reason that the damn things haven't been used militarily in 60+ years. At best? We return to a Cold War status, only it won't be as clear as East vs West anymore. Goodnight Gracie Tags:Republican iran Duncan Hunter presidential campaign

Clinton and Obama

Clinton and Obama Have Voting Records???? The attack ads practically write themselves: Hillary Clinton voted against ethanol! Barack Obama wants to increase taxes! Such are the perils of running for president as a senator. Yes, the worst kind of perils. Your own decisions. Of course, if those decisions get distorted for campaigning purposes, that IS bad. But isn't it a plus that we get to see how someone actually votes, etc.? I think so. Tags:Hillary Clinton Barak Obama