A Jagged Hole in the World's Heart

I have been struck by how many foreign dignitaries have begged me lately for news that Bush will lose. This Bush team has made itself so radioactive it glows in the dark.

Thomas Friedman: Jagged Hole in Heart of the World
NYT October 28

..How do we begin to repair this jagged hole? There is no cure-all, but three big things would help. One is a different U.S. approach to the world. The Bush-Cheney team bears a big responsibility for this hole because it nakedly exploited 9/11 to push a far-right Republican agenda, domestically and globally, for which it had no mandate. When U.S. policy makes such a profound lurch to the right, when we start exporting fear instead of hope, the whole center of gravity of the world is affected. Countries reposition themselves in relation to us.

..When the world liked Bill Clinton and Ronald Reagan, America had more power in the world. When much of the world detests George Bush, America has less power.

...If the Bush team wins re-election, unless it undergoes a policy lobotomy and changes course and tone, the breach between America and the rest of the world will only get larger. But all Mr. Bush and Dick Cheney have told us during this campaign is that they have made no mistakes and see no reason to change.

...The real question is, What if we get a new Iraqi government but the same old Bush team incompetence? That would be a problem.

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Friedman's article reminded me of "The Deeper Wound", something I read by Deepak Chopra shortly after 9/11:

"All this hatred and anguish seems to have religion at its basis. Isn't something terribly wrong when jihads and wars develop in the name of God? Isn't God invoked with hatred in Ireland, Sri Lanka, India, Pakistan, Israel, Palestine, and even among the intolerant sects of America?

Can any military response make the slightest difference in the underlying cause? Is there not a deep wound at the heart of humanity?

If there is a deep wound, doesn't it affect everyone?

When generations of suffering respond with bombs, suicidal attacks, and biological warfare, who first developed these weapons? Who sells them? Who gave birth to the satanic technologies now being turned against us? If all of us are wounded, will revenge work? Will punishment in any form toward anyone solve the wound or aggravate it? Will an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, and limb for a limb, leave us all blind, toothless and crippled?

Tribal warfare has been going on for two thousand years and has now been magnified globally. Can tribal warfare be brought to an end? Is patriotism and nationalism even relevant anymore, or is this another form of tribalism?

What are you and I as persons going to do about what is happening? Can we afford to let the deeper wound fester any longer?

Everyone is calling this an attack on America, but is it not a rift in our collective soul? Isn't this an attack on civilization from without that is also from within?"

- Deepak Chopra

Bush created many more radical Sunnis with Iraq Attack

Bush created many more radical Sunnis with Iraq Attack

From NYT article, October 27, 2004:

"...Clearly, the president's oft-repeated claim that American efforts are paying off because "more than three-quarters of Al Qaeda's key members and associates have been killed, captured or detained" - a questionable claim in itself - means little to jihadists. What matters to them that the invasion of Iraq paved the way for the emergence of a movement of radical Sunni Iraqis who share much of the Qaeda ideology.

....It seems clear that, while the administration insists that we are acting strongly, our pursuit of the war on terrorism through an invasion of Iraq has carried real costs for our security. The occupation is in chaos, which is emboldening a worldwide assortment of radical Islamists and giving them common ground. The worst thing we could do now is believe that the Bush administration's tough talk is in any way realistic. If we really think that the unrest abroad will have no impact on us at home - as too many thought before 9/11 - not even a vastly improved offense can help us."

Also, the NYT editorial:
Making Things Worse
Published: October 26, 2004

"President Bush's misbegotten invasion of Iraq appears to have achieved what Saddam Hussein did not: putting dangerous weapons in the hands of terrorists and creating an offshoot of Al Qaeda in Iraq.."

Hope

A child in Iraq gives a "thumbs-up" to a US soldier on a humanitarian mission

Children crowd around truck providing humanitarian aid in Iraq

photos/credit: A member of the Armed Forces serving in Iraq


"Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man."

- Rabindranath Tagore

"Remarkable" Success

"Remarkable" Success

"I think it has been a remarkable success story to date when you look at what has been accomplished overall and I think the president deserves credit for it."

- Dick Cheney offers his assessment of US policy in Iraq.


"Eleven hundred American soldiers have lost their lives, more than 8,000 have been wounded. Terrorists are flowing in. Americans are being kidnapped. We see beheadings on television. The costs are now $225bn and counting. And, knowing all of this, yesterday all Dick Cheney could say was that Iraq is a remarkable success."

- John Edwards, in reply


credit: seen at this site

Updating an Explosive Story

Hannity, Blitzer, and The Note (ABC) mischaracterized NBC report on NYT missing-explosives article

According to the media watchdog known as Media Matters, following the New York Times' disclosure on October 25 that "nearly 380 tons of powerful conventional explosives -- used to demolish buildings, make missile warheads and detonate nuclear weapons -- are missing from one of Iraq's most sensitive former military installations," members of the media incorrectly reported that a subsequent NBC Nightly News story refuted aspects of the New York Times article.

Hannity, Blitzer, and ABC's "The Note" either suggested or falsely asserted that NBC reported that the weapons were gone by the time the troops first arrived at the Al Qa Qaa site. But at no point did the NBC report claim that the arrival of its embedded crew at Al Qa Qaa on April 10 was the first time U.S. troops visited the site.

At the Guardian, it is insinuated that this story may be a slow-burning 'October surprise'. They say that Tom Brokaw, the evening anchor of NBC News, said, on last night's broadcast, that the network had never said the explosives were not there. It said US troops had not found them, but it was not clear whether the whole compound had been searched.

"We simply reported that the 101st did not find them," Brokaw told the viewers. "For its part, the Bush campaign immediately pointed to our report as conclusive proof that the weapons had been removed before the Americans arrived. That is possible, but that is not what we reported."


This is important to understand, because the Bush campaign is attempting to use the media to distort a very grave issue for politics' sake. Tom Brokaw let them know, last night, that NBC will not play along with a distortion of facts.

A new report out on Wednesday will contradict the assertions that the 380 tons of missing explosives at Al Qaqaa were not found by the U.S. troops passing through the facility.


SEE JUAN COLE'S COVERAGE HERE


Update: Drudge is a stooge for lying Bushites;
Josh Marshall covers the story truthfully; NBC Seems to be "on to" the Drudge-to-mainstream media perversion

From Talking Points Memo:

Late Update, Oct 27th: Drudge's 'the Russians did it' story is up now at the Washington Times, all based it seems on the say-so of John A. Shaw, the deputy undersecretary of defense for international technology security, whose theory about Russian involvement even Di Rita seems to be distancing himself from.

Shaw does at least provide the adminsitration's 9th or 10th theory of what happened. It had to have been taken out before the war because the US watched the place so closely no other explanation is possible. "That was such a pivotal location, Number 1, that the mere fact of [special explosives] disappearing was impossible," Shaw told the Times. "And Number 2, if the stuff disappeared, it had to have gone before we got there."

You can't make this stuff up.

Or, I guess, actually you can.

Meanwhile, back on planet Earth, the New York Times talks to some of the folks who looted the place during the early weeks of the occupation.


READ MORE OF JOSH MARSHALL'S EXCELLENT COVERAGE HERE

Christopher Hitchens, Daniel Drezner, Mickey Kaus, and many other Slate writers will vote for John Kerry

Christopher Hitchens, Daniel Drezner, Mickey Kaus, and many other Slate writers will vote for John Kerry

Slate is a journal of opinion, and the opinions of their writers generally differ.

I wanted to share their thoughts about how they plan to vote (some excerpted below) in case you'd missed them.

I was a bit surprised by the choices of particular writers (below), so I decided to showcase them in this particular piece. A few actually sound as if they'll be pained to pull the lever (or punch the card - or touch the screen ) for Kerry, but they explain why see no alternative.

Slate makes their case for full journalistic disclosure here.

"As a Republican, I remain completely unconvinced that Kerry understands the limits of multilateral diplomacy. As a social scientist, however, I can't vote for a president with this track record on foreign policy who doesn't believe that what he believes about international relations might, just might, be wrong."

- Daniel Drezner

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"The ironic votes are the endorsements for Kerry that appear in Buchanan's anti-war sheet The American Conservative, and the support for Kerry's pro-war candidacy manifested by those simple folks at MoveOn.org. I can't compete with this sort of thing....Kerry should get his worst private nightmare and have to report for duty."

- Christopher Hitchens

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"I'm voting for Kerry, mainly because I think Bush is prosecuting the fight against terrorism in a way that will make us dramatically less safe unless we have a conspicuous change at the top."

- Mickey Kaus

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"Here's what I wrote about Bush when we disclosed our votes four years ago: "He's shallow, obtuse, and proud of it. He's disdainful of reflection and indifferent to work. ... Congress can restrain either of them, but a president can catastrophically botch a foreign policy crisis all by himself. I trust Gore in that situation. I don't trust Bush."

Looks like I was wrong about Congress."

- William Saletan

Conservative Pundit Andrew Sullivan Supporting John Kerry

Conservative Pundit Andrew Sullivan Supporting John Kerry
Link: New Republic

"...in a democracy, you sometimes have to have faith that a new leader will be able to absorb the achievements of his predecessor and help mend his failures. Kerry has actually been much more impressive in the latter stages of this campaign than I expected. He has exuded a calm and a steadiness that reassures. He is right about our need for more allies, more prudence, and more tactical discrimination in the war we are waging. I cannot say I have perfect confidence in him, or that I support him without reservations. But not to support anyone in this dangerous time is a cop-out. So give him a chance. In picking the lesser of two risks, we can also do something less dispiriting. We can decide to pick the greater of two hopes. And even in these dour days, it is only American to hope."

Endorsement Chatter

Endorsement Chatter

Denver Post Bush Endorsement Fallout

See some of the fallout from the Denver Post's endorsement of George Bush.


Discussion About Swing State Endorsements

At Daily Kos, there is a good discussion about newspaper endorsements in the swing states.


Cleveland Plain Dealer sits this one out

After last weekend's revelation (via a leak) that The Cleveland Plain Dealer's publisher, Alex Machaskee was planning to override the editorial staff's endorsement of Kerry ( causing subsequent public outrage ), they have decided to endorse no one.


Liberal Media?

On a recent appearance on CNN, RNC chairman Ed Gillspie said to Wolf Blitzer:

"Look, Wolf, you know, the Republican candidate will never win the contest for editorial board endorsements. The major dailies across the country tend to skew liberal, their editorial boards. The New York Times the premiere liberal newspaper in America. No surprise they today endorsed the..."

According to the publication Editor & Publisher, which has been tracking newspapers during presidential elections, only two Democratic candidates -- Lyndon Johnson in 1964 and Bill Clinton in 1992 -- have ever won more endorsements than their Republican opponent. That's because newspaper publishers, who usually sign off on endorsements, tend to vote Republican (like lots of senior corporate executives), which means GOP candidates pick up more endorsements.

Editor and Publisher discusses, analyzes, and lists many recent endorsements in this article.

The most recent analysis by Editor and Publisher is here.

Art Spiegelman on the Presidential race

Art Spiegelman on the Presidential race

"I’m so grateful [John Kerry] has a chance to win because the alternative is to go to hell very quickly. By people who’d, in fact, like us to go to hell quickly so that they can get raptured up. I would rather go to hell more slowly, and I think that Kerry’s the go-to-hell-slowly party at this point. That’s the only one you can root for. If it goes slowly enough, I’d be glad to return to my life and business as usual..."

-Political cartoonist Art Spiegelman, October 18, 2004

The Flip-Flop Flim Flam

The Flip-Flop Flim Flam

If you look at the facts, John Kerry has been a model of consistency when compared to George Bush. Here are a few examples:

• Prescription drugs from Canada: For, then Against (Big campaign contributions from pharmaceutical corporations)
• Assault weapons in our streets: Against, then For (Pandering to the NRA and gun manufacturers)
• The creation of a homeland security agency: Against, then For (Public outcry and political expediency)
• McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform: Against, then For (Unprincipled opportunism)
• Nation-building: Against, then For (A double somersault to justify neocon invasion plans)
• Steel tariffs: Against, then For, then Against (A free-trader becomes a protectionist to win votes in Pennsylvania and Ohio)
• Arsenic in water: For, then Against (Public outcry...those darned scientists)
• Mandatory caps on carbon dioxide: For, then Against (The power of the coal and power companies)
• Outside investigation into WMD: Against, then For (Public outcry and world opinion)
• WMD: We found them and then we didn't find them (Confusion, convenience and "flexibility")
• Gay Marriage: First it's an issue for the states and then a federal issue (An opportunistic, red-meat, divisive wedge issue)
• Osama bin Laden: In 2001 he was our No. 1 public enemy; in 2002, "I truly am not that concerned about him" (Failure to prosecute the real war against terror)
• North Korea's nuclear threat: First it was extremely important; now it's not much of a threat (A parry to divert attention from misplaced priorities)
• Cutting troops in Europe: Against, then For (Bad planning for the number of troops needed in Iraq and Afghanistan)
• Immigration reform: For liberalization, then Against (A conflict between wooing the Hispanic vote and angering his nativist base)
• AmeriCorps funding: For, then Against (A favorite target of congressional reactionaries)
• Patriot Act II: For, then Against (The need to appear more moderate in the middle of an election; even angered Republican civil libertarians)
• The 9/11 commission: Six flip-flops, Against and then For: 1) The creation of the commission; 2) the composition of the commission; 3) the extension to allow it to complete its work; 4) his testifying; 5) the testimony of his national security advisor; and finally 6) the implementation of the findings (Public outcry, particularly from the families of 9/11 victims and then commision members -- Republicans and Democrats)
• The war in Iraq: At least nine different rationales as to why the U.S. invaded, and still counting (Reality catching up with fantasy)
• The war in Iraq: "It will be a cakewalk," then, "It will be long and difficult." (Talking out of both sides of the mouth; depending upon audience)

"This is not a case of one or two isolated switches; it's a deliberate pattern of manipulation designed to deceive the American electorate. What we find behind the pattern, and the mask, is a candidate who lacks character, principles, and integrity. George W. Bush cannot be trusted to govern."

- Professor Arthur I. Blaustein, teaches public policy and politics at the University of California, Berkeley

From article seen here.

Howard Dean Statements

Howard Dean Statement on Bill Maher's "Real Time"

"The truth is that what I have in common with the 700,000 people who are really cranked up about our campaign, or whatever the number was, is that we want fundamental change. So, sure, it'd be great to be president.

What would be really great – you know what would be really great?

What'd be really great is to have health insurance for every American, right? That's what we really want, you know. It'd be really great to have a president who thought that it was important to be the moral leader of the free world again. Those are the kinds of things we want. So, you know, sure, do I wish I were the nominee? Of course, I wish I were the nominee. But the truth is, I'm not, so I've got a great choice. I can pick somebody who's going to do the right thing, or I can pick somebody who's been doing what they've been doing for the last four years to the greatest country on the face of the earth. He needs to go back to Crawford, Texas."

- Howard Dean. October 15, 2004

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At the Kerry-Edwards Campaign Site:

Why I Am Voting for John Kerry
by Howard Dean
LINK

Pennsylvania Watch

Pennsylvania Watch

From Philly.com: (registration required to see articles)

Election changes could snarl Nov. 2; Officials worry that rules on poll watchers and ID cards will confuse voters. LINK
Democrats are concerned that the requirement for new voters to produce an I.D. card will create long lines at the polls and discourage voters from sticking it out long enough to cast their ballot.

Why Pennsylvania is key to Kerry's chances LINK
Even while his aides are loath to say it, John Kerry has scant chance of garnering 270 electoral votes if he is denied Pennsylvania's 21. Kerry has sustained a modest lead in virtually all the polls conducted in Pennsylvania since the first presidential debate.

21 Reasons to Elect Kerry LINK
To help voters in the Philadelphia Inquirer's closely contested region make an informed choice in this critical 2004 presidential election, The Inquirer Editorial Board offers a series of editorials documenting its reasons for endorsing John F. Kerry. The series also includes rebutting essays from supporters of President Bush.


Pittsburgh Gazette:

Rendell vows action on voter scams; Pitt students tricked
LINK
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's Dennis Roddy reports that Gov. Ed Rendell will be referring allegations of possible voter registration fraud to Attorney General Jerry Pappert's office.

Wolcott: Conservatives Prepare For Bush Loss

Wolcott: Conservatives Prepare For Bush Loss

James Wolcott has a delightful blog-piece about conservative pundits, especially those at FOX News, who seem to be pre-rationalizing a Bush defeat. Between reading about the "Bush-licking Howard Fineman" and "Linda Vester, the one with the sad puppy-dog eyes", I couldn't stop smiling. Mr. Wolcott is a joy to read.

Excerpt:

"..There are no coincidences at Fox News. Three times today, and the day is still relatively young, Fox hit the note of liberal bias to sound the theme that the press is "in the tank" for Kerry, and that any victory he gets will be a tainted gift from the media elite.

I'm not saying Fox News is anticipating a Bush loss, only that they seem to be laying the ground work for the blame game should he cough it up on November 2nd. They are taking the first baby steps to denying the legitimacy of a Kerry win, preparing the first batch of sour grapes..."

My favorite line:
"Roger Ailes claps his hands and the monkeys go into their little dance."

Shame on George Bush!

Shame on George Bush!

1106 of our troops are dead, thousands are severely injured, and tens of thousands of Iraqis have died -all for an unnecessary war led by a liar named G.W. Bush.

So, what does Bush tell us? He has the balls to tell us ( including many families of those dead soldiers ) that we Americans complain too much - (with John Kerry as our spokesman).

Iraq is on the brink of civil war and we learned today that we killed 600 innocent civilians ( with at least 300 of them women and children ) in Fallujah alone last April. God only knows how many we've killed so far this month. The war rages on because Bush had no plan for the peace.

And he has the audacity to claim John Kerry has no plan.

Bush gets his loyalty oath groupies laughing about the war - quite often lately.

I'd like to know - what's so friggen funny about 1106 dead soldiers and the lie Bush told that sent them to his inappropriately planned folly?

I could ask, how he could possibly stand there with a straight face and say these things, but even his face has looked pretty crooked lately - his mouth drooping and his false, mocking smile cocked precariously, as if to shelter the truth behind his speed-blinking eyes.

Ruling allows Florida to reject incomplete voter registrations

Breaking: Ruling allows Florida to reject incomplete voter registrations

From USA Today:

U.S. District Judge James Lawrence King decided on procedural grounds that the three prospective voters did not have the legal standing to pursue the lawsuit backed by the AFL-CIO, but he gave the union group a chance to file a new version of the lawsuit next month with people who meet the standard.

That leaves the AFL-CIO and the Advancement Project, a social action group, on the losing side of an attempt to force election officials to accept applications from people who failed to check a citizenship box on registration forms in time for the Nov. 2 election.

LINK

Secretary of State Glenda Hood, a Republican, said the state was "pleased by the decision." I'm sure she's thrilled.


credit: AIGA.com

In other Florida Election News:

New Florida vote scandal feared
by Greg Palast

A secret document obtained from inside Bush campaign headquarters in Florida suggests a plan - possibly in violation of US law - to disrupt voting in the state's African-American voting districts, a BBC Newsnight investigation reveals.

LINK

CNN sinks in credibility with yet another 'Drudge scoop' flop

CNN sinks in credibility with yet another 'Drudge scoop' flop

CNN has been scammed by the Drudge Report one too many times for me to say I trust their journalistic integrity any longer.

Josh Marshall lays out what CNN did last night.

I had seen Drudge's flashing emergency-light icon over the huge headline and I thought about dropping him a note asking him why he constantly allowed the RNC to "play" him - but I thought twice. It would have only been an exercise in futility. Drudge is bought and sold.

It doesn't excuse CNN, though.

They are pathetic.

Josh Marshall has additional commentary here and here

I wish to be Mr. Marshall's trumpet here.
This man works his fingers to the bone to consistently refute, with truth on his side, all the garbage that the mainstream media allows the Bush/Cheney campaign to hand to them -reporting their distortions without questioning.

Bush campaign distortions reveal contempt for US integrity and safety

Bush campaign distortions reveal contempt for America's integrity and safety

"While the White House sought to minimize the importance of the loss of the HMX and RDX - two commonly used military explosives that can also be used to bring down airplanes or to create a trigger for nuclear weapons - the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed ElBaradei, took the unusual step on Monday of writing to the United Nations Security Council to report that the explosives were gone. He usually sends a report every six months, and his last was just a few weeks ago.

"He doesn't do that to report trivia," a European diplomat familiar with Dr. ElBaradei's views said. "It's something that is considered grave."

The Bush campaign is being forced, by the truth, to spin a perverse political web. It's glaringly clear that they've come to the point of deliberately concealing the raw danger they've created for our nation while their rhetoric would suggest the exact opposite - telling us we're safer.

The past four years have been nothing more to the Bush administration than one continuous political campaign. Power has been more important to the Bush/Cheney campaign than the very integrity of the United States. Lies were told in order to secure the public support for an unnecessary war - a war, I'll remind you, that was not properly planned and executed.

The American public now awaits next week's election and fears another hijacking of the electoral process. If that occurs, I think we're going to see a Constitutional crisis.

Richard Nixon was the last president to have created a Constitutional crisis by trying to save his political hide by undermining the checks and balance system through the abuse of executive power.

How far will this president go? John Dean has already warned us that Bush is worse than Nixon.

This administration needs to go. I hope the American public understands the importance and has the patience to stand in a long line to vote Bush out of office next Tuesday. We should all consider it to be a labor of love for our country.

Bruce Springsteen to Join John Kerry on the Trail

Bruce Springsteen to Join John Kerry on the Trail

Bruce Springsteen plans to play a song or two at campaign rallies Thursday in Madison, Wis., and Columbus, Ohio, both in battleground states likely to determine the winner of the election. He'll join Kerry in Cleveland the night before Election Day.

-NYNewsday.com

Headlines and Articles

Today's Featured Article

Mother Jones - Invitation to a Degraded World:
We're less far than we might imagine from a world where an Orwellian formula like "illusion is reality" could pass muster.
by Jonathan Schell, Introduction by Tom Engelhardt
"The injection of fantasy into the real offends the aesthetic sense, but the true price is paid in blood -- in the torture of prisoners, in the launch of wars. If a grasp of reality and the constitutional machinery to act upon it remain intact, then every other ill can be addressed. But if these are lost, the capacity to recover is lost with it, and the game is over."


photo credit: InTheseTimes.com

Media Out of Control in America
Democracy and elite by Mordecai Roshwald
"We may well follow the pattern of decline of ancient Athens in our own peculiar modern way...."

In These Times- Running a Media Deficit: The joint rise of the conservative media and creeping authoritarianism is no coincidence
"In the 2000 election, Bush’s simple, easygoing style, which conceals a fierce competitiveness, made Bush a sellable commodity to the American people (especially to white men), a darling of the conservative news media and a favorite of many mainstream journalists. Add the fear and the sense of victimization from the 9/11 attacks and a new political model suddenly lay open as a possibility for the United States. It would be a post-modern authoritarian system that would rely less on traditional repression of political opponents than on a sophisticated media operation to intimidate and marginalize dissidents."

Election 2004


Here's a ballot the Republicans must love. Is it equal opportunity confusion? Karma? Is Theresa LePore lurking in Cuyahoga County, Ohio?


Nashville Weekly - Kerry For President
"Over time, John Kerry has grown on us. To a Southerner, his pedantic delivery and royal elocution can be a bit much, but in the debates we've slowly come around. We are confident John Kerry will at least engage with the complexity in today's world. It's not just that Bush won't do that. It's that he can't."

CleveScene.com - "Hijacking Catastrophe": Another documentary exposes the President as a right-wing imperialist
"Hijacking Catastrophe"does something that even Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 doesn't do. It compares Bush to a Nazi."


altweeklies.com - Cheated at the Ballot Box: Voter Suppression and the 2004 Election by Paul Rosenberg

altweeklies.com - Down to the Wire: Voter Suppression Is Alive In the Heartland by Paul Rosenberg


Consortium News - Bush: Beyond Reason by Robert Parry
"..while it may be troubling that Bush runs the world’s sole superpower on “gut” instinct that he may think is divinely inspired, it is perhaps even more troubling that large numbers of Americans are ready – even determined – to endorse this approach in granting Bush a second term. What appears to have happened is that a significant swath of the U.S. population has embraced a political mysticism which accepts Bush as a kind of cult leader. For these Bush supporters, it doesn’t matter that he has big gaps in his knowledge of the world or that he sometimes invents his own reality. They have come to see Bush as a messenger from God, an impression that Bush’s handlers – and Bush himself – have cultivated."

Kerry and Clinton in Philly Today

Kerry and Clinton in Philly Today




credit: AP photo