I guess we all knew this was coming. I think it was time , too. Powell did his absolute best, most of the time, to serve the President and hold onto his principles as well. The probelem was that those principles were forged by a military career which taught him that no soldier ever got criticized for avoiding casualties. Powell's worldview was forged by by Vietnam, when after all the blood and smoke were cleared, Hollywood, the media and academia turned on the military with savage libels and blatant dishonesty. Though there is plenty of blame to go around, Powell's excessive caution in Gulf War was the biggest factor in leaving in leaving Saddam Hussein in power the first time.
Bring on Condi rice.
16 November 2004
11 November 2004
Arafat, Rot In Hell.
Not many evil thugs get to die in peacefully in bed the way Arafat did. The list of his crimes will reach from here to hell, so he can start at the bottom reviewing them all. Let's leave aside the vicious murders, hijacking and assorted mayhem and thuggery for the moment.
The fact that this low rent gangster stalked the great halls of Europe, the Carter White House and the United Nations like an elder statesman when he should have been in the deepest hole that civilization could dig says much about those places. The fact that he lined his pockets like every other third world satrap while posing as some kind of martyr says much about the political sensibilities of Arabs.
The fact that his closest associates spent the last week in gay Paris dickering with his high-living wife, Suha, over just how now much they had to pay her to pull the plug on his quivering corpse says much about the French.
The fact that this low rent gangster stalked the great halls of Europe, the Carter White House and the United Nations like an elder statesman when he should have been in the deepest hole that civilization could dig says much about those places. The fact that he lined his pockets like every other third world satrap while posing as some kind of martyr says much about the political sensibilities of Arabs.
The fact that his closest associates spent the last week in gay Paris dickering with his high-living wife, Suha, over just how now much they had to pay her to pull the plug on his quivering corpse says much about the French.
5 November 2004
And now, let us reckon with CNN.
It's all been said, it's all worth saying again. No one, no one in the history of the American presidency has ever dominated the popular vote like George W. Bush did on Tuesday. On the matters that really count: national security and cultural security, there are no deep divisions.
The Federal Election Commission should look long and hard at CNN. The failure to call Virginia and the Carolinas early in the election, and later the refusal to call Iowa, New Mexico and most impotantly Ohio, when the mathematics were inescapable, were a gross and probably illegal attempt to influence voters. Wolf Blitzer was practically screaming for the Democrats to send in the lawyers. The so-called exit polls were even more blatantly and deliberately trumped up. Thanks to the pajamahadeen and the talk-radio warriors, the fraud neven had a chance of succeeding.
Now a word about John Kerry. He would have been a lousy President. But I will give him credit for peering into the abyss of lawsuits and taking a step back. Well done, John.
The Federal Election Commission should look long and hard at CNN. The failure to call Virginia and the Carolinas early in the election, and later the refusal to call Iowa, New Mexico and most impotantly Ohio, when the mathematics were inescapable, were a gross and probably illegal attempt to influence voters. Wolf Blitzer was practically screaming for the Democrats to send in the lawyers. The so-called exit polls were even more blatantly and deliberately trumped up. Thanks to the pajamahadeen and the talk-radio warriors, the fraud neven had a chance of succeeding.
Now a word about John Kerry. He would have been a lousy President. But I will give him credit for peering into the abyss of lawsuits and taking a step back. Well done, John.
3 November 2004
Beginning of the End
They should have called South Carolina for Bush by now...why haven't they? Indiana and Virginia will also fall to Bush within the hour. Ohio is in play...which is not good news.
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