Overall I think President Bush did well in the debate, but Kerry was better. Bush stayed on messsage, but Kerry was a better speaker. Bush seemed on the defensive most of the debate, and Kerry was on the attack right out of the starting blocks. If I had to pick a winner, I would say Kerry and only slightly because of his style.
The most stand out moments for me? There are a few, and they are all from Senator Kerry.
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Michelle Malkin has the goods on Dan Rather/CBS style reporting at NBC. They’ve picked up on the fake draft story with a University of Arizona student who is very concerned about the draft…What they failed to mention in the report was that this “concerned student” is a member of the Students For Edwards club at Arizona.
Potentially related..Michael Moore is scheduled to speak at Arizona on October 11.
This Arizona alumn will be seriously reconsidering her donations to the Alumni Foundation. And I can’t wait for Homecoming.
UPDATE On second thought, is it spreading? Or are we just paying closer attention?
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According to Bill from INDC Journal, the Rathergate investigation has turned into a criminal probe being investigated the Texas Rangers.
Questions for Republicans or Bush supporters heading into Thursday’s debate:
1- Are you nervous about one, two, or many “Bushisms”? Remember, there are no note cards allowed at the podium.
2- Is it more important for the president to defend his stance on Iraq, or attack John Kerry’s positions on Iraq?
Questions for Democrats or Kerry supporters:
1- Is there a way for Kerry to succinctly and plainly refute the “flip-flop” charge in a way that undecided American voters will believe?
2- Are you worried that the Senator will be too verbose and long-winded in his answers?
And a question for all involved: what’s your biggest fear regarding your candidate and Thursday’s debate?
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What’s wrong with this picture?
I’m too young to have been a witness to the turmoil caused by the Vietnam War. I was barely walking when Elvis died. But the fact is that the Vietnam years were a tumultuous time for this country. And there are forces on both sides in the current election campaign that are trying to make Vietnam an issue.
This morning while checking in with the latest Pajamahadeen report on CBS and the fraudulent “Bush is going to bring back the draft emails”, (and enjoying my blueberry muffin and large coffee), I came across an item in the Denver Post that made me scratch my head.
Kerry supporters at the University of Colorado are posting signs all around campus with the blazing headline “YOU’RE GONNA GET DRAFTED” with the sub heading, “there’s no way around it”. Students For Kerry claim it’s just a “get out the vote” effort, to draw attention to the serious issues in this close election.
Yeah, and if you believe that, I have some prime real estate in Northern Arizona with great views of the Grand Canyon that I’ll sell you real cheap.
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This is a huge story, because it’s indicative of the problems this country faces in terms of ensuring accurate elections.
As voter registration cards continue to pour into boards of elections across Ohio, instances of alleged voter registration fraud are growing.
In Summit County, suspected fraudulent voter registration cards continue to trickle in on top of the more than 800 already under scrutiny, according to Board of Elections Deputy Director John Schmidt.
The county sheriff, the state Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation, and the Ohio attorney general are investigating the cards received by Summit County.
The problem is just as bad in Lake County, Ohio.
Lake County Prosecutor Charles Coulson, also involved in the probe, said the problems are more significant than originally thought.
“We’ve seen voter fraud before, but never on this level,” Coulson said Thursday. “I grew up in Chicago and this looks like the politics of Mayor Daley in the ’50s and ’60s.”
The main problems, according to the Cleveland Plain-Dealer, seem to be coming from registration drives conducted by ACT Ohio and the NAACP’s National Voter Fund.
There are more potential problems in Colorado, and my hunch is good reporting would turn up similar problems in other battleground states.
hat tip to jim Gerahty… who has much more on this subject.
Quickly becoming my favorite daily read, Allah has interesting commentary on the left’s argument that Bush is unfairly politicising National Security, and the Kerry campaign’s complaints about negative attacks from the GOP and President Bush.
New life rule for the She-Rahn : Never vote for a candidate (supporters are ok) that whines about negative attacks. If they can’t take the punch in a campaign, they won’t be able to take a punch if elected.
If it’s not already obvious, Ted Kennedy is my least favorite politician. And now I think he’s losing his mind. He’s making speeches on behalf of Kerry, and I can’t find where he makes a coherent point in any of them.
Yesterday he said that the US isn’t doling out the aid fast enough or creating jobs fast enough, so terrorists are hacking innocent people’s heads off.
Yesterday, in the same speach at George Washington University, he expanded on this new argument of his. I pulled up the transcript of the speech, and I am just flabberghasted. The fine gentleman from Massachusetts said that “[The Bush administration] thought they could use Iraq as an experiment in laissez-faire economics, but the result has been far fewer jobs for Iraqis and far greater support for insurgents”. HUH?
I have a Master’s degree and all, but I can’t follow his logic. I need to talk this one out. The US isn’t shelling out enough cash for reconstruction jobs, so terrorist are blowing up other Iraqi’s to get what jobs are available, which Iraqi’s support since the US and Iraqi governments are allowing free markets to flourish?
I am asking this in all honesty: What the heck is he saying here? Is he even trying to make a point other than “Bush Lied!!!!” and “Bush is doing it wrong”?
And don’t think our fighting men and women in Iraq will miss this little nugget from the Washington Time’s reporting on the speech: “Mr. Kennedy praises American troops for their execution of the war, but, at another point in his speech, he says their errant bombs are sparking the insurgency”. If Senator Kerry didn’t intend to send that message, he might want to come out and quickly correct that record.
The Opinion Journal is a daily read for me. I get to work early so I can read the columns while I have my first cup of coffee and my blueberry muffin (the cafe at the office has the best muffins!). And every day after lunch I wait for James Taranto’s Best of The Web Today like a little girl on Christmas eve.. In fact, my gracious host Cam Edwards made an appearance in BOTW, though not by name…(see ‘Testing The Limits’).
My favorite columnist, Peggy Noonan, is on sabatical volunteering for the Bush Cheney campaign. In her abscence I have learned to appreciate the other columnists.
Today on Opinion Journal.com, Brendan Miniter has an interesting take on John Kerry’s most recent three point position on national security:
“Mr. Kerry hopes to take the concern about military strain one step further by telling those likely to be most affected–service members and their families–that during a second term Mr. Bush would make their lives a lot harder. Mr. Kerry has said Mr. Bush has a ’secret plan’ to escalate the war after the election, and while other Democrats keep raising the specter of a return of the draft, Mr. Kerry says what the administration is doing amounts to a ‘backdoor draft.’ ”
If Bush did have a secret plan, how does Kerry know about it? Just wondering.
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The murderer of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, and the main suspect behind the assassination attemps on Pakistani President Musharraf, has been killed in Pakistan. Amjad Hussain Farooqi was shot and killed by Pakistani security forces after a two hour gun battle.
Nice job.
Must. Have. This.Hat.
They also have an Oklahoma State version!
First it was the French journalists in Iraq, now it’s a CNN producer in Palestine.
Is it really a good strategy to be kidnapping those who are on your side?
UPDATE The CNN
producer has been freed, apparently he was told it was Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade who kidnapped him.
UPDATE #2 The group holding the French journalists hostage pays tribute to the French government (hat tip: Allah) “after it called for a US-proposed conference to address the issue of a US troop withdrawal”
A new twist on an old question - If there is good news in Iraq and the MSM doesn’t report it, is there really good news to report? Arthur Chrenkoff seems to find it.
Every week Arthur Chrenkoff of Opinion Journal.com prepares a round up of the good news coming out of Iraq and Afghanistan. It’s a must read for me every Monday.
This week’s column offers some insight as to what the ordinary, every day Iraqi’s are doing to stand up to the terrorists. Most noteworthy is what’s going on in Najaf:
Each day, hundreds of residents turn out to shout down rebel Shi’ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. They blame him for leaving Najaf in ruins and blame his henchmen for slaying as many as 300 people.
“Muqtada is garbage and his people are all crooks,” demonstrators chanted Friday. That’s an extraordinary slur for a man who is the son of an assassinated spiritual leader and merits the honorific, Sayyed, as a descendant of the prophet Muhammad.
This kind of outburst was unthinkable three weeks ago, when al-Sadr and his armed followers ruled Najaf and its holy shrine and led a nationwide insurgency against the U.S. occupation. He flouted centuries-old tradition to defy the key spiritual leaders of Iraq’s Shi’ite majority. He drove them into seclusion and their followers into fearful silence.
Now, the besieged have turned the tables, raising questions about how deep and broad al-Sadr’s support actually is. Al-Sadr posters and pictures tacked up around the city streets and neighborhood shops have been torn down. The police, whom al-Sadr’s fighters drove from their Najaf and neighboring Kufa compounds last spring, have now packed their jail cells with the cleric’s followers.
The MSM was quick to report on the violence in Najaf, will they be so quick to report on the clean up of Al-Sadr’s militia by ordinary Iraqi’s? I’m holding my breath in anticipation.
On a side note, the other Senator from Massachussetts, Ted Kennedy said yesterday that “the administration’s failure to distribute billions of dollars in reconstruction funds and create enough local Iraqi jobs may have been the biggest factors leading to the rise of the insurgency there”. He must not read Opinion Journal. Forgive me if I am a little skeptical that those who are decapitating innocent people are just looking for work.
Maybe I’m missing something, but I fail to see how calling someone “a nice lady” is an insult.
In the mid-1980s, U.S. Sen. Strom Thurmond incurred the wrath of women when he welcomed a group of feminist leaders to a meeting of the Judiciary Committee: “Why, you all are such pretty ladies. Why, if you all aren’t married, you could be.”
When Holly Cork was in the S.C. House from 1988 to 1992, male members often would address her as the “little lady” from Beaufort. Women were incensed.
Now, they are fuming again, this time over the way Republican U.S. Senate nominee Jim DeMint refers to his Democratic opponent, Inez Tenenbaum. He often calls her a “nice lady, but …”
Women — Republicans and Democrats — are not amused.
Barbara Leonard, a GOP activist from Florence, calls it “harassment.”
“It’s sexist,” says Gretchen Monroe, a Sumter Democrat and college English professor.
Women, generally, find it condescending, patronizing and demeaning.
“He is trying to diminish her,” said USC political scientist Betty Glad.
In hindsight, DeMint said he may have been wrong to call Tenenbaum what he did.
“I really thought she was a nice lady,” the three-term Greenville congressman said Friday. “But based on the nasty campaign she’s running, I may have been wrong.”
Maybe I’m a sexist pig (although I don’t think I am), but how on earth is “so and so’s a nice lady, but…” harrassment?
I don’t think so.
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One of the people who tune in to NRAnews.com every day is Janine Peterson.
Janine’s written a great piece on firearms and feminism for Expository Magazine. Check it out: Self-Defense is a Feminist Issue.
Great stuff, Janine.
Not to sound like Andy Rooney, but did you ever wonder what musicians end up doing once they’re no longer able to make a living playing their songs?
I’m one of those guys who tends to like obscure bands that very few people have heard of, so it’s inevitable that many of my favorite bands are now doing other things. Some, like The Connells are still trying to make a living playing music, albeit with a few new members. Founding guitarist George Huntley is now selling real estate.
Too Much Joy isn’t around anymore, but they still have a website. The lead singer’s now a writer. The former bassist is now a music executive. The drummer is still drumming, and presumably still a NYPD police officer.
The Posies were one of the first “alternative” bands I started listening to. I was lucky enough to get to hang out with them one night in Dallas in the early 90’s. Very nice fellas. I’m glad to see that singer/guitarist Jon Auer is teaching others how to write three minute pop songs. Singer/guitarist Ken Stringfellow managed to hook up with REM.
I know, I know. Why the heck do you care. You didn’t listen to this wuss-rock. You were a headbanger. Fine.
Jani Lane from Warrant? No idea what he’s doing, but he looks like he’s eating as well as I do.
Don Dokken of Dokken? Has his own website.
So does Stephen Pearcy of Ratt (who looks like he’s slimmed down over the past couple of years, by the way).
I really wanted to close off this post with a recent picture of the Scorpions’ Klaus Meine, but the closest I could find was the webpage of the guy who played keyboards for them back in the 70’s.
Rock on, Herr Kirschning.
Bill from INDC Journal managed to grab a quick interview with Bob Scheiffer from CBS this weekend.
Good job, Bill.
Call me cynical, but I have a feeling that if this nine year old wanted to hold a pro-Bush meeting at school every week, educators would find some rule prohibiting such a meeting from taking place.
I just hope the Republicans don’t try and be Scrooge-like and find some sort of regulation that prevents this girl from holding her weekly support group meet-up.
When John Kerry claimed to own a “communist chinese assault rifle” in the pages of Outdoor Life magazine recently, I think most politically savvy gunowners chuckled.
It’s been about a week and a half since the story was first reported, and now the NYTimes is on the case.
“My favorite gun is the M-16 that saved my life and that of my crew in Vietnam,” Mr. Kerry told the magazine. “I don’t own one of those now, but one of my reminders of my service is a Communist Chinese assault rifle.”Mr. Kerry’s campaign would not say what model rifle Mr. Kerry was referring to, where he got it and when, or how many guns he owned. A spokesman for the senator, Michael Meehan, said Mr. Kerry was a registered gun owner in Massachusetts. On Thursday morning, Mr. Meehan said he had not been able to ask Mr. Kerry about the rifle because of Mr. Kerry’s hoarse voice; he did not respond to further inquiries.
Heh. Try again tomorrow, NYTimes.
Sometimes President Bush’s inability to manipulate the MSM is embarrassing. He really isn’t a skilled politician. It’s endearing in some situations, but not this week. Watching the Rose Garden press conference on Thursday with President Bush and the Iraqi interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, I was struck at how inept Bush is at turning the tables on a belligerent press core.
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Nothing. Not one single thing. I’m not a journalist. I’m not a talk radio host. I’m not a political operative. I am not a high powered DC lobbyist. I’m not a web designer and know nothing about HTML or PHP or websites. I’m not even a seasoned blogger. This is my first foray into the underground world of the Pajamahadeen.
So who am I? Let’s get the usual cheesy questions out of the way: Yes I was born in the ’70’s. No I am not blonde. No my boss’ name is not Charlie. And yes, my dad still has the poster in the garage back home.
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Eighteen months ago I started this blog. After a year and a half, I have to admit to a certain amount of burnout. I’ve been thinking about adding another author for quite some time, but I finally decided to do it today.
Over the weekend, you’ll probably notice Farrah Whitworth-Rahn posting some items. I’m excited about Farrah joining the website, and I hope she’s around for a long time.
In going through the archives this morning, I ran across this gem from June ‘04.
Wife: Andrew, when you pass gas you say excuse me.
Andrew: I didn’t fart. My butt has allergies.
I just compile them… I don’t make ‘em up.
I love that kid.
