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BUSH NOMINATION SCHEDULE

Tuesday, 31 August 2004 1:18 P GMT-07
This satirical look at the RNC first day schedule was posted several days ago at a site that I'd not seen until today.  It's called Daily KOS, http://www.dailykos.com , and states that it contains, "political analysis and other daily rants on t

PRODUCT OF PRIVILEGE

Tuesday, 31 August 2004 12:15 P GMT-07
One of the most incomprehensible aspects of the U.S. presidential campaign is how it's possible that half the voting age population can, according to some polls, still give George Bush high marks on fighting terrorism and making us safer.  Despite

A FAILED PRESIDENCY

Sunday, 29 August 2004 10:43 A GMT-07
Thanks to Common Dreams, http://www.commondreams.org , and to BuzzFlash, http://www.buzzflash.com , for posting online this editorial which will appear in the 9/13/04 issue of The Nation, http://www.thenation.com .  I couldn't say it any better, so

IT'S THE LIES, STUPID!

Saturday, 28 August 2004 7:39 P GMT-07
"It's the lies, stupid!"  Of all the things that make me hope so  fervently for a defeat of the Bush administration and the Republican stranglehold on the U.S. government, it's the lies.  Whether speaking specifically about Bush and me

TIME FOR A SANE ENERGY POLICY

Friday, 27 August 2004 6:18 P GMT-07
More on the economy.  That's right, the one Bush keeps telling us has "turned the corner."  Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor of The Nation, http://www.thenation.com , comments on how the Bush "policy of fear" has helped to raise th

ECONOMY TURNING THE WRONG CORNER

Friday, 27 August 2004 6:16 P GMT-07
The Bush administration keeps telling us that the U.S. economy has "turned the corner."  If it has, it has turned onto a one-way street going the wrong direction.  In order to keep easily fooled voters from realizing that the economy is n

MEDIA FOCUS ON PAST NOT ON PRESENT

Thursday, 26 August 2004 11:59 P GMT-07
John Nichols writes a regular column, "The Online Beat" for The Nation, http://www.thenation.com . In the online edition for Aug. 25, he examines how the media has handled two stories over the past week.  Not suprisingly the media has be

STONES FROM A GLASS HOUSE

Thursday, 26 August 2004 4:52 P GMT-07
The Center for American Progress, http://www.americanprogress.org , examines the record of the Bush administration on intelligence and national security issues.  The most interesting new twist is the discovery that Bush's nominee to be the new hea

BUSH GETS RED CARD FROM IRAQI TEAM

Thursday, 26 August 2004 4:51 P GMT-07
This is the third article from the Aug. 24 The American Prospect (TAP), http://www.prospect.com , that I wanted to post.  It's a nice story out of the Olympic Games in Athens that war-torn Iraq has played so well in soccer (football) competition. 

AL QAEDA OWES MUCH TO BUSH

Wednesday, 25 August 2004 11:59 P GMT-07
This is the 2nd column from the Aug. 20 online edition of The American Prospect, http://www.prospect.org.  Sam Rosenfeld, a regular writer for that publication takes a look at the insidious notion promulgated by the extreme right-wing types like Ru

MEDIA ALLOWS LIARS TO SET AGENDA

Wednesday, 25 August 2004 11:59 P GMT-07
Several good articles in this week's The American Prospect (TAP), http://www.prospect.org .  This is the first of them.  Michael Tomasky, executive editor of The American Prospect, scolds the media for spending so much time examining John Kerry's V

THANK A LIBERAL

Wednesday, 25 August 2004 11:59 P GMT-07
A few weeks ago I came across a little story attributed to Sen. Fritz Hollings back in the 1980s.  He told of meeting a man who fought in World War II, went to college on the G.I. Bill, bought a house with an F.H.A. loan, commuted to and from work o

ANOTHER SWIFT BOAT VET BACKS KERRY

Tuesday, 24 August 2004 3:11 P GMT-07
While the despicable lies of the so-called "Swift Boat Veterans for Truth" (SBVT) continue to be repeated and George Bush still refuses to disavow the group that has close financial ties to Bush and the Republican Party, another swift boat

JOHN KERRY: DEFINE BUSH OR BE DEFINED BY HIM

Sunday, 22 August 2004 12:01 P GMT-07
As this BuzzFlash  (http://www.buzzflash.com) editorial points out the Bush administration is one characterized by secrecy, deceit, lies, deception, division and greed.  It is "fundamentally immoral."  Their lies and deceptions are legi

BUSH INCREASES FLIP-FLOP LEAD

Saturday, 21 August 2004 3:34 P GMT-07
Just in case you've been paying any attention to the great flip-flop issue in this presidential race:  While the Bush campaign continues with their single-issue slurs accusing John Kerry of being a "flip-flopper,"  Bush goes right on incr

SCURRILOUS SWIFT BOAT GROUP AGROUND

Saturday, 21 August 2004 2:53 P GMT-07
The lies of the Swift Boat Liars for Bush, are getting harder and harder to stomach.  I'm posting two more pieces that attempt to set the record straight.  First, a BuzzFlash editorial that gives their "GOP Hypocrite of the Week" award to

KERRY SWINGS AND MISSES

Friday, 20 August 2004 3:02 P GMT-07
I'll still vote for John Kerry, but I admit to being greatly dismayed when, like "mighty Casey" of the well-known poem, he struck out in a crucial at bat last week.  For the record, I agree with the following commentary by Robert Scheer an

BUSH LIVING IN THE PAST

Friday, 20 August 2004 1:16 P GMT-07
Here's another comment on the laughingly misleading statement by G.W. Bush that anyone who opposes his plan to go ahead with development of the ultra expensive and unproven missile defense system, is "living in the past." Bush continues to

BUSH STILL FIGHTING THE COLD WAR

Thursday, 19 August 2004 4:17 P GMT-07
Rigidity and stubborness are the hallmarks of G.W. Bush's character.  Nowhere is this more evident than in his obstinate and muleish clinging to his fixation on going ahead with that outrageously expensive and still unproven relic of the cold war, R

GOP REP. AWAKENS TOO LATE

Thursday, 19 August 2004 3:24 P GMT-07
At last a few Republicans are waking up and acknowledging the truth about the war of aggression against Iraq.  In this case, the sad part is that Congressman Doug Bereuter (R-NE) sees the light only as he prepares to end his Congressional career. 

VIVA CHAVEZ ! Part II

Wednesday, 18 August 2004 3:33 P GMT-07
If any readers were surprised by the victory of Hugo Chavez over the removal referendum last Sunday, this commentary should explain why he coasted to an easy victory.  The author,  Medea Benjamin, is the co-founder of the human rights group Global

THE BUSH WAR SERVICE (sic)

Monday, 16 August 2004 4:34 P GMT-07
I was not going to bring up this subject again, but since the Bush campaign is making such a production of the lies put out about about John Kerry's war record by the "Swift Boat Veterans For Bush" or whatever they're called  -- and since

VIVA CHAVEZ !

Monday, 16 August 2004 10:52 A GMT-07
Venezuela's popularly elected president, Hugo Chavez (CHA'-ves) is hugely popular with the masses of poor and largely landless people of the country.  And, of course, is hugely unpopular with the rich landowners there who make up 3 % of the populati

BUSH PUTS POLITICS AHEAD OF FIGHTING TERROR

Sunday, 15 August 2004 6:47 A GMT-07
While the Bush campaign continues to show ads and Bush continues to make speeches telling us what a wonderful job he is doing fighting terrorism and keeping us safe, the reality is just the opposite.  In their desperate attempts to score political &

FREE SPEECH DOESN'T INCLUDE LYING

Friday, 13 August 2004 5:19 P GMT-07
With the scurrilous and false attack on John Kerry's Vietnam war record now in book stores in the form of the trash book, "Unfit To Command," and the despicable TV ads, inspired by the phony "Swift Boat Veterans for Truth" group,
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