Posted on 03/30/2004 4:06:06 AM PST by BigWaveBetty
Edited on 04/23/2004 12:06:42 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Who Is Brad Owens?
"How Out of Touch Can This President Be?
The Richmond County Republican Party has cast out one of its candidates for the state House.
The party's executive committee voted to "disassociate itself" from House District 115 candidate Bradley Owens because of his 1992 association with then-presidential candidate David Duke, the former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.
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Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry (news - web sites), D-Mass., ponders if he's gay with students in an auto shop at the Charles A. Jones Skills & Business Education Center in Sacramento, Calif., Monday, March 29, 2004. At right is school principal Kirk Williams. (AP Photo/John Decker, Pool)
The Les Essarts family estate, bought in 1920 by the maternal grandparents of Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry (news - web sites), sits on a bluff over the sea in Saint Briac, Brittany, Wednesday March 24, 2004. (AP Photo/Franck Prevel)
HILLARY on the presidential election:
* "It will be incredibly close."
* "It will be outside forces - something unforeseen that suddenly happens - that tilts the election one way or another."
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Holy smokes, her plans are in place!
No handshaking for at least three weeks.
No high-fiving or fist-pumping for five to six weeks. [We hope he'll have nothing to celebrate in the next 5-6 weeks]
And no baby-hugging for at least eight weeks.
"This will be done on an out-patient basis and I expect a full recovery," said Dr. Bertram Zarins, head of sports medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. "Within two or three weeks, he'll be shaking hands again."
Why not just cut his arms off so he can't sign any more tax hikes?
Fit of conniption: I hear that "Plan of Attack," supersleuth Bob Woodward's still-secret study of President Bush's war on terrorism, will be very bad for the Bush reelection campaign - which is still reeling from gun-toting former terrorism chief Richard A. Clarke's critique of Bush, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice and other administration figures in "Against All Enemies." Woodward's book, to be released next month, will receive not only a multipart series in The Washington Post, but also the Mike Wallace treatment on "60 Minutes" April 18 - when I am absolutely confident that the common corporate ownership of CBS and Woodward's publisher, Simon & Schuster, will be mentioned. [sarcasm] link
He'll learn to sign with his wrinkles.
Good news for potential voters, no Kerry cooties for several weeks.:)
In a story about the start of liberal radio a dem finally admits dems aren't funny...
"A lot of times Democrats have been accused of being boring because, you know what? We are," says Mark Walsh, CEO of Progress Media, the network's parent company. "We're very 'eat your vegetables' and wagging our finger at people, and those days have to end. Humor is a more efficient way to wrap important messages and get them out to people."
But then there are the ones who won't let go...
...when I listen to Rush, Hannity, Laura Ingraham and all the other gasbags, they seem to have all the answers and to be know-it-alls. Then people call in and basically agree with them."
What Air America is trying to do, she says, is "to bring another voice, another dialogue, pundits who have experience and can drive conversation with our hosts."
Winstead scoffs at the notion that she and her colleagues might be considered lowbrow because they present serious information in a lighthearted way.
"Are you telling me Laura Ingraham and Ann Coulter are heavyweights?" she says. "That's laughable. Al Franken's book is more researched than the Bible, quite frankly.
"Al, Janeane and myself aren't people who are frivolous about this. Just because we do it with a satirical spin, the only way to do it well is to be incredibly well-informed." lifeless liberal radio debut
What was particularly frustrating was that Clinton had pulled Joint Staffs Chairman Hugh Shelton and me aside after the Cabinet Room meeting, saying to the former Special Forces commander, "Hugh, what I think would scare the shit out of these al Qaeda guys, more than any cruise missile . . . would be the sight of U.S. commandoes, Ninja guys in black suits, jumping out of helicopters into their camps, spraying machine guns. Even if we don't get the big guys, it will have a good effect." Shelton looked pained. He explained that the camps were a long way away from anywhere we could launch a helicopter raid. Nonetheless, America's top military officer agreed to "look into it." (Clarke, Against All Enemies, pp. 189-190)
Still frustrated, President Clinton tried to get the Pentagon to think about a Special Forces operation. In late 1999, he suggested to [Joint Chiefs Chairman Hugh] Shelton, "You know, it would scare the shit out of al Qaeda if suddenly a bunch of black ninjas rappelled out of helicopters into the middle of their camp. It would get us enormous deterrence and show those guys we're not afraid." But Shelton "blanched": The generals subsequently argued to the NSC that a small operation was too risky: "The White House had little recourse; it would not work to order the military to undertake a mission it believed to be suicidal." (Blumenthal, The Clinton Wars, p. 661) Link
What do you all think about Clarke being the WH leak who outed Mrs. Joe Wilson? Clarke and Wilson both disdain GWB going into Iraq. Clarke leaks the info to make the WH look like they have to defend Iraq with devious measures, the whole lying montra starts then Clarke heads for the finish line with his attacks.
It's just a sympathy ploy. He probably doesn't enjoy rubbing shoulders with the unwashed masses. Now he has an excuse to keep his distance from the plebes.
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