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DRUDGE Is reporting actor Christopher Reeve is dead of an apparent heart failure. He was 52

(Newark, DE)– Treasa Helnz Kerry thnks all men are boys at heart.
This week, I’ll be examining what John (Forged) Kerry wants to be when he grows up.

Trip going well… Pics are in the laptop and will be home soon… I don’t have the bandwidth here to deal with sending it home.

I’m off to teh Jersey Shore for the Weekend.
Likely, I’ll be back Monday morning.
I’ll be filing from the road via the Palm….

Outside The Beltway is the BitsBlog of the Week.

I have some basic disagreements with James at times, but his blog is always an interesting informative read, and well worth my time. Put it on your daily list.

Newark, DE (via Palm Pilot)— Today we’re on a short vacation, just outside of Wilmington. The boys got to photograph some high-speed trains, Donna gets to photograph some birds (and lots of deer) in the many wildlife areas. The new truck is performing like a champ. I’ll be posting some photos as I get them back, and get time.

I’m feeling a little disconnected, as I usually do while on vacation… First of all, this time, because I ended up having to go to bed prior to the debate on Friday night… We left Rochester at around 3:30 this morning…. Got here around 7 hours later. It’s a great way to travel… Far less traffic, and we saw a really great sunrise.

I’ve had lots of time to think of things while on the road.

I have been pondering the ‘Dr Phil” interview of The Poodle and his wife, and shaking my head. I wonder if she hasn’t given us more insight on him than she should of if he really wants our vote. Treeeeeeesa Kerry is quoted on that show, saying

“I think men are supposed to be boys always. They just go through different stages and if wives understand that they can love them.”

(Shrug) I suppose.  But this, perhaps, gives us some insight into Mr. Kerry, and his constant changing positions on every single important issue of the day… He still hasn’t decided what he wants to be when he grows up.

Oh, we’re sure he wants to be President. What kind of President he’ll be, does remain an issue, however….. And looking at his record, it doesn’t look very good.

Granted, his words sound pretty good, depending on when were listening to him; he does tend to change positions by the hour.  In his reach to obtain that position, Mr. Kerry is, because of the events of these days, forced to deal with the War on Terrorism… or more correctly, the terrorists war on US.  Mr. Bush has made the action, correctly, I think, the center of his campaign. It is the single most important issue in this nation… Nay… In the world, today.

In the context of this issue John Kerry has the unavoidable task of overcoming the very long and very public record of conflicting statements.  Because of those past statements and the events of these days, Mr. Kerry, if he is honest, is restricted to one of two arguments….

Based on the facts known, Mr. Kerry can in this situation, choose to be either a liar or a fool. The Democrat’s chances on getting the WhiteHouse back seem to be suffering from the seeming inability of Mr. Kerry to make a choice and stick with it. Not that he’d do a great deal better if he did; both positions are indefensible. But to hop from one to the other as Mr. Kerry has been doing is showing him to be both a liar AND a fool… Which is by far less electable than either of the options.

With last week’s ISG report, however, Mr. Kerry’s arguments that he’d do things better, have gotten even weaker.

Consider the events that set all this up; Because Mr. Bush made the WOT the center of his campaign, Mr. Kerry was forced to react to that, by saying he’d do a better job with it. 

Because Mr. Bush is doing a good job… As good as is possible in fact, there is only one way the WOT could be going any better for anyone. That being if there were more people, more countries, seriously involved, than were so already.  At this point it should be noted that there are already quite a few involved… A point that Mr. Kerry ignores at his peril, I think… His dissing those already in the game doesn’t strike me as effective coalition building.. 

That said, though, Mr. Kerry has again been forced to react to events. Because so many countries were already involved, Kerry is forced to be concerned only about those who opted not to come to the party… France and Germany. Mr. Kerry has centered the foreign policy part of his campaign… The most important part… On the idea that he’d be able to get France and Germany along with Russia, to send troops. Thing is, the ISG report says that papers found in Iraq from Iraqi Intel show that Saddam was told back in early 2002 that France, in return for their being granted oil contracts… contracts specifically forbidden under the UN sanctions, would use it’s security council position to veto any US led response to Saddam’s crimes.

With the ISG report, we find that all three countries were on the take, under the so-called oil-for-food program… A program all three understandably claimed was working in containing Saddam.  It also says Saddam was using the money gathered from said contracts, to re-arm. Meanwhile, both France and Germany have stated flatly that no matter who is President, they’re not coming into the game. Mr. Kerry has quietly admitted that other countries won’t send troops.

Thus does Mr. Kerry’s central arguments for “I can do the job better…” fall to the ground, and along with them, the call for our passing the “Global Test” which amounts to allowing the corrupted UN to decide in which manner the US will surrender to the terrorists.

Some questions arise from all of this;

It gets better, but this point takes a little to set up.  Kerry has the election year luxury of judging Mr. Bush in hindsight, while ignoring his own response to the intel we, and the remainder of the world had about Iraq’s WMD. We knew what Saddam’s closest advisors knew… But what Saddam’s closest advisors knew was wrong.  And Kerry supported the president’s actions.

Even the LA TIMES who in a brazenly partisan move called Bush the ‘worst President Ever’ admits that:

“Shortly before the U.S. bombing and invasion of Iraq last year, Saddam Hussein gathered his top generals together to share what came to them as astonishing news: The weapons that the United States was launching a war to remove did not exist.

“There was plenty of surprise when Saddam said, ‘Sorry guys, we don’t have any’ ” weapons of mass destruction to use against the invading forces, a senior U.S. intelligence official said. ….

Far from being misinformed, the report says, Hussein was micromanaging Iraq’s weapons policy himself and kept even his most loyal aides from gaining a clear picture of what was going on – and, more important, not going on – with the program.”

So, then, the questions:

The key judgment is not that the info Mr. Bush was reacting to, but how he reacted to it. Mr. Bush acted in the only prudent way a responsible leader could. In so doing the US is safer, as is the remainder of the world. Millions upon millions of people are now free that were living under despotic regimes.

And think on this; How would it be with Mr. Kerry now, had Mr. Bush not responded to Mr. Kerry’s call for unilaterally removing Saddam from power?  Of course, Kerry will ignore these questions, as will the press. You shouldn’t, because here’s another case where once the facts are in, a Bush presidency is the country’s best hope for the future. Mr. Bush is working for America. It’s clear Mr. Kerry is working for….. Mr. Kerry.

The reason Mr. Kerry has been forced into changing his positions so frequently, is very un-nuanced, and straightforward.  Every argument he’s tried falls flat under even light scrutiny.

America and the world cannot afford to have such a man in the White House.
I fear greatly the events that would unfold were such a man ever to gain real power.
You should, as well.

Has anyone heard anything from Billy Beck the last few days?

In discussing the passing of Rodney Dangerfield with a co-worker… a passing thought occurred, as they sometimes do…

So, if Rodney didn’t get any respect, what did he get when people came to his funeral, to pay their….. you know…

Death, after all, is a reversal of situations.

Just sayin’..

AP is as usualy giving Rotundo Moore an open mike…:

“LANSING, Mich. – Michael Moore shot back at Republicans on Wednesday after they requested that the filmmaker be prosecuted for offering underwear and food to college students in exchange for their promise to vote. “It’s ironic that Republicans have no problem with allowing assault weapons out on our streets, yet they don’t want to put clean underwear in the hands of our slacker youth,” Moore said. “The Republicans seem more interested in locking me up for trying to encourage people to participate in our democracy than locking up bin Laden for his attacks on our democracy.” 

Umm… Mikey? It’s called a BRIBE.
And that, where voting is concerned is called a FELONY.

And I’m willing to bet that the bribe wasn’t paid out in order to get them to vote for just anyone, now, was it? Are you afraid what an investigation of this will reveal? All it takes is one student to say they were urged to vote Democrat to get you into a striped outfit… and I would be VERY worried if I were you…I gather vertical stripes are NOT slimming.

… and in response to the E-mails I’ve been getting about Cheney’s comments to Edwards that they’d never met prior to the other night… here’s a question for you; Is it possible for someone to be in the same room as another person, even down to even stting next to that person, and never having actually ‘met’ officially?

“Met”… as in…
To be introduced to.
Or
To come to the notice of (the senses)

Quinnipiac University Poll results:

President George W. Bush leads Democratic challenger John Kerry 51 – 44 percent among Florida likely voters, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today. Independent candidate Ralph Nader received less than 1 percent in this tally, which includes undecided voters leaning toward a candidate. “

At the least, this wide a margin would seem to kill off any chances of staging a repeat of 2000, as curently pending lawsuits seem to be indiciting was their plan all along.

Says Captain Ed, this morning:

“No one doubts that Florida represented the Holy Grail for Democrats in this election. It has become their mythology that the previous election was stolen from them there, despite a number of independent recounts which clearly show Bush won, including one conducted by the national media. They hoped to win Florida not only for its big chunk of electoral votes but also to drive home that stolen-election myth.

Instead, the Democrats nominated a candidate who even after the debate can’t generate more enthusiasm for his candidacy among his supporters than against George Bush. Not only does that explain Bush’s seven-point lead, but it also portends a smaller turnout on Election Day that may widen the moderate gap into a rout.”

Well, maybe if they’d come up with ideas and a candidate that people other than the far left could get behind, they’d have had a lot easier time of it.

Kudos to Ed, who’s on top of things as usual. Ed also cites a Dixon poll that looks even better… but you’ll have to go there for that.

FOXNews says:

“WASHINGTON – The number of people filing for initial U.S. jobless aid fell 37,000 last week despite continued elevated claims in Southeast states struck by a rash of hurricanes, the government said on Thursday. “

So, the economy continues to do well. I blame the Bush policies for all this success, myself.

Meanwhile, John Kerry claims he wants a change. But think…if you change, and move *away* from successful policy, what do you have?

A Democrat.

Blogbat’s Xanga Site has an excellent listing and links to other litings.
This is all stuff the naitonal news media, not unexpectedly, is ignoring.

You shouldn’t.

The Scotsman has some interesting news this morning…:

“SADDAM HUSSEIN believed he could avoid the Iraq war with a bribery strategy targeting Jacques Chirac, the President of France, according to devastating documents released last night.

Memos from Iraqi intelligence officials, recovered by American and British inspectors, show the dictator was told as early as May 2002 that France – having been granted oil contracts – would veto any American plans for war. “

So, the French were corrupt? They were going to veto any anti-Iraq action regardless of the facts? 

Gee, didn’t I hear someone saying that, right here in this space, even before the President took courage and bypassed that corrupt process? Didn’t I hear someone in this space say that the whole Iraq thing… and why we were being prevented from taking out Saddam and his merry band of thugs was all about oil for the corrupt, socialist, French government? Didn’t I say that the President was quite correct for bypassing the UN?

SITYS

Addendum: Now, explain to me how John Kerry’s “Global Test” plays into this. How are we to get the approval of the world body John Kerry insists on getting permission from, when that body is demonstrably corrupted?

And yes, despite his claims, that is exactly waht Mr. Kerry would subject us to.

Captain Ed says:

“The Washington Post reports that Senator Hillary Clinton is under investigation by the FBI for campaign irregularities involving fundraising for her 2000 Senate bid and her husband’s use of the Presidential pardon. If you didn’t see it in the paper, it’s buried at A11 of the Post:

The Justice Department is trying to secure the cooperation of an indicted businessman as it pursues Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s 2000 Senate campaign for possible fundraising violations, according to interviews and documents.”

Oh, dear. Perhaps that presidential run is in trouble after all. Convicted felons can’t run for President, as you may recall.

Cox and Forkum

Really great stuff.

But while I’m on the subject of Moore…..what a blithering idiot Rotundo Moore is. What’s this I hear now? He’s supposed to be bribing people to vote?

“LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The Michigan Republican Party is asking four county prosecutors to file charges against filmmaker Michael Moore, charging that he illegally offered underwear, noodles and snacks to college students in exchange for their promise to vote.

I figure the scientific explanation is not that he’s a good leader, that people are following him… it’s more the gravitational pull created by so large a mass….