Politics Archive
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A US-financed poll shows that the majority of voting Iraqi's want a religious leader leading the country, and not the US interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi.
The Bush administration calls this the "worst-case scenario."
I'm not sure how different that is to our voting situation here. Many Americans are voting for Bush, a born-again Christian, because of his drive to bring more religion to the US government.
Also, has anybody said what happens if Iraq elects a terrorist as their leader? Do we attack them again?
From the Associated Press:
A significant part of the insurgents' money is coming from sympathizers in Saudi Arabia, and the Saudi government is neglecting the problem, said the official, who was authorized by the Pentagon to speak on the issue this week, but only on condition of anonymity.
Why does the person always have to be anonymous? Is this the Pentagon's way of making sure we never know what to believe?
Money is flowing into Iraq through Syria, the official said.
I'm sure this won't change many voters minds, but it does make ya think...
TEHRAN, Iran -- The head of Iran's security council said Tuesday that the re-election of President Bush was in Tehran's best interests, despite the administration's axis of evil label, accusations that Iran harbors al-Qaida terrorists and threats of sanctions over the country's nuclear ambitions.
Historically, Democrats have harmed Iran more than Republicans, said Hasan Rowhani, head of the Supreme National Security Council, Iran's top security decision-making body.
Continue: Bush Receives Endorsement From Iran
Last year we had enough flu vaccine to immunize every American who needed the flu shot. You could go to grocery stores, drug stores, hospitals, and libraries and get the shot for $5.
Still, with most of American vaccinated, 36,000 Americans died last winter from the flu. That's more than twice the number of Americans who died from AIDS last year, and more than ten times the number of Americans who died in 2001 terrorist attacks. In addition, 100,000 Americans were hospitalized because of the flu.
This year there aren't enough flu shots. If you're reading this web page chances are you do not qualify to get a shot. While that means having the flu should not be fatal to you, you will still suffer from an illness that should have been prevented, and you could be out of work for a week or more.
President Bush said during the third debate that he was not concerned about the lack of flu shots, even saying that he was not going to get one.
My call to our fellow Americans is if you're healthy, if you're younger, don't get a flu shot this year.
With 36,000 deaths last year, I'm worried about this upcoming winter. Will we see record amounts American workers required to stay at home? Will we see people afraid to be in crowded areas? Will we see record number of deaths related to the flu?
Flu Information: WebMD
From LostRemote.com:
Check my math. The Jon Stewart showdown on CNN Crossfire has surpassed 800,000 views on iFilm and just under 70,000 BitTorrent downloads. Crossfire averaged 550,000 viewers in Nielsen's third-quarter ratings. So unless Crossfire pulled off a huge night on Friday, more people watched the Stewart-Carlson exchange on the web than watched it on TV -- a first for a prime-time cable news show.
If you haven't watched this episode of Crossfire you're missing out. It's hilarious, insightful, and hopefully will cause some huge changes in the poor ways that the media has been doing a disservice to our country in how it covers political issues.
Jon Stewart for President?
(Yeah, Michael Moore has been saying the same things about the media for years, but Jon Stewart looks better on camera and has a more appreciatable sense of humor. Those things help.)
This Modern World: Channel Surfing
"It's a very funny dissection of Bush's distortions of Kerry and how the media plays along. Exaggerated, but not that much. "Hat tip: AmericaBlog
As of October 19: Kerry: 284 Bush: 247 (270 needed to win)
Instead of trusting the results from any one polling company, Elector-Vote.com aggregates polling results from the following pollsters: American Research Group, Mason-Dixon, Quinnipiac University, Rasmussen, Research 2000, Strategic Vision, Survey USA, and Zogby.
The web site has other interesting graphs, such as an annotated time line of where the polls put the candidates after different events and the debates occurred.
The debate is over.
Kerry showed why should be the next president. He was clear, concise, answered the questions, had detailed plans, used facts not name calling, and was confident.
Bush avoided answering important questions, wasn't confident, and used numbers already proved false by FactCheck.org to back his arguments.
As of right now:
- MSNBC: Bush: 29% Kerry: 71% (757,900 responses)
- CNN: Bush: 46% Kerry: 54% (455,862 responses)
- CNBC: Bush: 15% Kerry: 85% (10,602 responses)
- FOX News: Bush: 46% Kerry: 53% (281,686 responses)
(Updated numbers at 1:40 am est.)
Tonight is the third and final debate.
If you are undecided I hope you watch the debate, then check FactCheck.org to get facts straight and Debates.org for the transcript..
If you've already decided who to vote for, well, nobody knows what's going to be said tonight, so maybe you should still watch anyway.
Oh no!
Hear the "exclusive" audio proof.
The freedom to vote has been taken away from "hundreds, perhaps thousands" of voters who, on November 2nd will think that they are registered to vote.
"We caught her taking Democrats out of my pile, handed them to her assistant and he ripped them up right in front of us. I grabbed some of them out of the garbage and she tells her assisatnt to get those from me," said Eric Russell, former Voters Outreach employee.
More reasons why the RNC scares me:
The company has been largely, if not entirely funded, by the Republican National Committee. Similar complaints have been received in Reno where the registrar has asked the FBI to investigate.
A brief but powerful speech from US Rep Tim Ryan:
http://www.mydd.com/files/admin/TimRyan_Medium.mov
If you don't have QuickTime installed I recommend using QuickTime Alternative, which lets you play MOV files in any windows video player, such as Windows Media Player, which not surprisingly has better Windows support than the original from Apple.
This is a quote from Bush during the second debate:
I wasn't happy when we found out there wasn't weapons, and we've got an intelligence group together to figure out why.
Here's what we can gather from wise ol' Bush:
- He's not happy that he was lieing and Saddam was telling the truth about the WMD's.
- He's not happy that Saddam wasn't fully armed (maybe he wanted a more fair fight).
- He has an intelligence group together to figure out why he's unhappy.
Unedited debate transcript thanks to debates.org.
And yes, "wasn't weapons" it should be at the very least "weren't weapons."
I post this in good jest. Obviously Bush isn't running against Clinton, but the numbers are interesting.
I took out a couple that were just kinda silly, like comparing the behavior of daughters.CLINTON VS. BUSH: What a REAL presidency looks like...
Clinton invades Kosovo, zero US combat losses.
Bush invades Iraq, 1,075 US service members dead and rising.
Clinton invades Kosovo and captures Milosevic.
Bush invades Afghanistan and lets Osama get away.
Clinton invades Kosovo, our troops have food and armor.
Bush invades Iraq, our troops are buying body armor on eBay and begging Iraqi civilians for food.
Clinton invades Kosovo, civilians greet us with flowers.
Bush invades Iraq, civilians cut off our heads.
WTC attacked when Clinton is president, only 6 people die.
WTC attacked when Bush is president, nearly 3,000 people die.
Clinton lied about having an affair.
Bush lied about reasons to go to war.
Clinton creates a record budget surplus in 8 years.
Bush creates a record budget deficit in 4 years.
Price of gas during Clinton presidency: $1/gal.
Price of gas during Bush president: $2/gal.
A big Clinton scandal: Firing some travel office employees.
A big Bush scandal: Abu Ghraib
Clinton held 42 solo news conferences.
Bush held 15 solo news conferences.
Number of new words invented by Clinton: Zero.
Number of new words created by Bush: A lot more than zero.
Clinton created the largest economic expansion in over 40 years.
Bush created the largest job loss since Herbert Hoover.
Clinton admitted trying pot.
Bush won't discuss his alleged cocaine use.
Clinton's wife never killed anybody.
Bush's did (while in high school).