The official denial from his campaign is now on the record (Media Channel)
Daily Archives: 8 Oct 04
‘How to Get Stupid White Men Out of Office’
One Pissed Off Voter (Alternet)
Bush’s Isolation From Reporters Could Be a Hindrance
Some Presidential Advisers Worry That He Could Pay Price During Debates for Being Overprotected. “‘If you don’t talk to the press and deal with audiences with some degree of skepticism, you can’t build understanding so people have confidence in you in hard times. His handlers think they’re doing him a favor, but they’re not.'” (Washington Post)
Hypocrisy On Spy Reform
‘Legislators have embraced the commission’s call for a national intelligence director and national counterterrorism center that would, in theory, coordinate intelligence efforts in the executive branch. But they have ignored or gutted the commission’s proposal for similar reforms in the way Congress oversees intelligence.
“Of all our recommendations, strengthening congressional oversight may be among the most difficult and important,” the commissioners stressed in their final report. They urged that Congress give its intelligence committees control over both authorizations and appropriations — so that the committees would finally have the muscle to provide real oversight.’ — David Ignatius (Washington Post op-ed)
The Verdict Is In
“Sanctions worked. Weapons inspectors worked. That is the bottom line of the long-awaited report on weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.” (New York Times editorial)
Iraq: 12 killed in possible wedding party attack
This is not the first time that US devastation of what military command describes as a suspected ‘safe house’ for foreign fighters is countered by claims by opponents of our occupation of Iraq that what was really attacked was a wedding party. Not that I trust the US government’s version of reality too often, but it does seem that the critics use the wedding party excuse — even at midweek, at that — a little too consistently.
Why Did James Baker Turn Bush Into Nixon?
Frank Rich:: “Only Election Day will reveal if Sept. 30, 2004, set off a political chain reaction to match that of Sept. 26, 1960; then as now the candidates soon settled down into a post-debate statistical dead heat in the horse race (Kennedy 49, Nixon 46, according to Gallup). But at the very least the first Bush-Kerry debate marked the moment that the savvy Bush-Cheney machine lost its once-invincible grip on the all-important TV game and, just like Nixon before it, did so because of its own blunders, not any sorcery by the opposing J. F. K.” (New York Times)
