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Friday, Sep 03, 2004
cotton mouth
i think i read about james wolcott skulking about among the liberal bloggers at the convention. maybe he was out creating a little buzz for his blog launch.
map science
looks like the election may come down to pennsylvania. and theres a fairly plausible 269-269 scenario. other states in play: florida tennessee colorado wisconsin iowa nevada minnesota michigan and arizona. possibly arkansas and virginia. my guesstimate today was kerry 270 bush 268. that required a win in nevada tennessee iowa minn michigan and penn but losses in florida colorado virginia and arkansas. click on the interactive map and make your own predictions.
demanding satisfaction
the general gives zell his due.
classs act
fred kaplan skools the repug speeches.
pasucki
listening to pataki makes me yearn for a euphonious al gore. i look forward to the day when he is the republican candidate for president. here is a man that can make people enthusiastic about a kerry candidacy.
factored in
who found the factor?
Thursday, Sep 02, 2004
kiss off
"Keep the focus on the president's manifest record of failure and he loses this election. Simple as that."
la kings
poor little tv execs lost an opportunity today to exploit the rich careless black athlete and the poor confused little white girl. youd think msnbc could pay her off to keep up the charade. if she understood it was for the sake of ratings maybe shed relent. now all we have to look forward to is the new season of The OC. dawg.
Wednesday, Sep 01, 2004
fallow the leader
"[T]he biggest question... whether [the Bush] response to 9/11 has made [America] safer or more vulnerable.... Over the past two years I have been talking with a group of people at the working level of America's anti-terrorism efforts... no partisan ax to grind with the Administration... they have so far been proved right. In the year before combat started in Iraq, they warned that occupying the country would be far harder than conquering it.... [A]mong national-security professionals there is surprisingly little controversy... America's response to 9/11 [was] a catastrophe. I have sat through arguments among soldiers and scholars about whether the invasion of Iraq should be considered the worst strategic error in American history—or only the worst since Vietnam.... "Let me tell you my gut feeling," a senior figure at one of America's military-sponsored think tanks told me recently, after we had talked for twenty minutes about details of the campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq. "If I can be blunt, the Administration is full of shit. In my view we are much, much worse off now than when we went into Iraq. That is not a partisan position. I voted for these guys. But I think they are incompetent, and I have had a very close perspective on what is happening. Certainly in the long run we have harmed ourselves. We are playing to the enemy's political advantage. Whatever tactical victories we may gain along the way, this will prove to be a strategic blunder.".."
dig deeper
"Jim Lobe argues that the FBI investigation that caught up Pentagon Iran expert Lawrence Franklin is much wider than initially thought, and focuses on the unauthorized transfer to Israel of highly sophisticated military software and designs."