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I have never been enthusiastic about Kerry, but like Greg Palast says, he's a slap in the face and Bush is a Brick in the head. We need to get behind Kerry. He's no progressive's dream, but he's a thousand times better than Bush.
You and your partner write superbly and I'm always proud to run your articles. I just don't get how progressives can bash their best hope of saving the US. Yes, Kerry is not filling all the categories we'd love to have in an ideal president, but at least he isn't destroying so many others, like Bush is. We all need to pull together, find the good in Kerry, sell it to the nation and then, after he's elected, push him to move left, towards more progressive positions. Before the election we need positive constructive criticism, not bitter bellyaching that demoralizes.
Rob Kall
Quote from the article mentioned in the subject line:
"With Hitler boldly proclaiming, before launching his doctrine of
preventive war against all of Europe"
Question:Who declared war on whom:
Germany to France or otherwise?
England to Germany or otherwise?
Who put his own citizens with full knowledge and intent in harms way to
stage phony reasons to declare war? Germany on America or otherwise?
The list could go on. On the other hand: Who ever met an American (or a
Greek for that matter) who knew something about anything?
regards from old Europe,
Dr. Michael Bolsinger
Germany
Quote from the article mentioned in the subject line:
"With Hitler boldly proclaiming, before launching his doctrine of
preventive war against all of Europe"
Question:Who declared war on whom:
Germany to France or otherwise?
England to Germany or otherwise?
Who put his own citizens with full knowledge and intent in harms way to
stage phony reasons to declare war? Germany on America or otherwise?
The list could go on. On the other hand: Who ever met an American (or a
Greek for that matter) who knew something about anything?
regards from old Europe,
Dr. Michael Bolsinger
Germany
When Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell halted the purchase of new electronic voting machines on July 16 after two investigations identified 57 potential software and hardware security threats, North Canton, Ohio’s Diebold Electronic Systems’ dream of a $100 million contract with the state disappeared.
And so may have Diebold CEO “Wally” O’Dell’s promise to “deliver” the Buckeye State’s electoral votes, and the presidency, to George W. Bush in Ohio. As we keep hearing in the press, no Republican candidate has ever won the presidency without Ohio’s electoral votes.
Still, the fear of the dreaded DREs (Direct Record Electronic) machines has produced political and legal skirmishes throughout this key battleground state. The Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Verified Voting Foundation, VotersUnite! and Citizens Alliance for Secure Elections (CASE) filed an Amicus Curiae brief in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio in late July.
I thought you wrote an excellent article and I hope that the article
receives wide attention. While Governor Schwarzenegger made the communist,
socialist, democrat connection (some may argue how subtle he was) few
appreciate fascist parallel to Bush's behavior. I thank you for clarifying
this and I hope your article receives the wide attention your article deserves.
Larry Welsch
This convention alone would be enough to convince me that John Edwards is right about “two Americas,” except I don’t think he’s gone far enough. These folks are in from another planet. They’re living in an alternative reality. When is a fact a fact to these people? When did anyone ever find evidence Saddam Hussein had dog to do with Sept. 11?
It’s all very well to claim our invasion of Iraq may yet bring about peace and democracy in the Middle East -- hey, miracles happen -- but when Rudy Giuliani assured us this “idealism” is in fact triumphing as he speaks, one must question the man’s grip on sanity. Even the president is now claiming the disastrous occupation is the result of “catastrophic success.” That seems to mean he thinks we won the war too fast.
"How do you know that?"
"There were maybe 450,000 people on the streets of Manhattan, all of them hating Bush, and I saw maybe 10 people with Kerry/Edwards signs. Maybe two with Nader/Camejo signs. People don't connect hating Bush with voting for Kerry."
You can blame that partly on the whole Bush-as-Monster frenzy that has every bookstore piled with hysterical tracts making the president out as a cross between Caligula and Nero, without even the latter's fiddle playing as a redeeming quality.
Forget about Kennebunkport, Maine. That’s where George Herbert Walker of the St. Louis Walkers purchased a faux ancestral home. Ignore Connecticut. That’s simply where Prescott Bush went, after his prank letter on being a war hero was published in a hometown newspaper embarrassing the family out of the heartland. Here in Columbus is where it all started. Where the great-grandfather of our current President began the family’s well-documented tradition of war profiteering.
Samuel Bush, friend of the Rockefellers and owner of Buckeye Steel Castings, pulled his own “Halliburton” in World War I simultaneously serving on the Armaments Board and granting contracts to his family business. St. Paul’s Episcopal Church still stands on Broad Street near downtown as a monument to the good old days. The Bush family worshipped there before its new generations embraced evangelical right-wing Christianity.
Forget about Kennebunkport, Maine. That’s where George Herbert Walker of the St. Louis Walkers purchased a faux ancestral home. Ignore Connecticut. That’s simply where Prescott Bush went, after his prank letter on being a war hero was published in a hometown newspaper embarrassing the family out of the heartland. Here in Columbus is where it all started. Where the great-grandfather of our current President began the family’s well-documented tradition of war profiteering.
Samuel Bush, friend of the Rockefellers and owner of Buckeye Steel Castings, pulled his own “Halliburton” in World War I simultaneously serving on the Armaments Board and granting contracts to his family business. St. Paul’s Episcopal Church still stands on Broad Street near downtown as a monument to the good old days. The Bush family worshipped there before its new generations embraced evangelical right-wing Christianity.