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The Afghan and Australian elections - bad news for Kerry. Here's why.

by JohnHuang2

Recall how the media last week predicted the elections were bound to be wracked by violence, voter intimidation, wholesale fraud, and how they complained that polling staff were too lightly trained, easily bribed, and that the drug-funded opposition, which hates democracy anyway and knows it can never win power back in a free and fair vote, will do anything to disrupt the elections? But enough about Florida.

(Frankly, aren't you sick and tired of Campaign '04? We have to get back to the place we were, where Kerrytistas are not the focus of our lives, but they're a nuisance -- like gambling and prostitution.)

Now, regarding the elections in Afghanistan, the sages of major media said the chances of mostly peaceful elections in a terrible, war-wracked 'Quagmire' like Afghanistan, nearly 3 years after the fall of the Taliban, were slim to none. I took this optimism to mean the chances of mostly peaceful elections were pretty good. Sure enough, the elections went mostly peaceful Saturday, with exit polls on Monday showing interim president Hamid Karzai, accused by al-Qaeda and the Deaniacs of being a neocon puppet of Christian Crusaders, not only winning the nation's first free election, but Afghans giving the neocon puppet the outright majority required to avoid a run-off. (Taliban leader al-Gore immediately demanded a recount.)

But, for the Kerrytistas, the mostly peaceful election wasn't the only bit of bad news during the past week. On Friday, the U.S. reported the nation's jobless rate held steady at 5.4%, below Clinton's election-year 5.6% rate; then came news on Saturday that Australia's Prime Minister John Howard wasn't being punished by voters for angering those pesky little 'Nuisance'-makers known as al-Qaeda in supporting the Iraq war; then came news late Sunday that followers of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr had agreed to hand over their weapons, ending months of Nuisance against U.S. and Iraqi forces. (The only good news for Camp Kerry came late Tuesday, with word that Saddam's hernia operation was a success.) So, with mostly peaceful elections in Afghanistan and a key U.S. ally reelected in Australia and al-Sadrtistas disarming in Iraq and very low unemployment here at home, "evidence of (Bush's) failures (keeps piling) up all around him," wrote Kerry in a fund-raising e-mail recently. With Mr. Failure piling up a job approval rate above the key 50% mark, how much more Bush failure can Kerry withstand?

Actually, the Kerrytistas, with their boss coming off a very weak performance in the second debate, had spent the whole week on defense. They tried and tried to spin it as a win for Kerry, but look, you can put lipstick on a horseface, but it's still a horseface. Indeed, seconds after the second debate, you knew who won and who lost -- just by looking at the glum faces at MSNBC and CNN. Both cable nets said Kerry had put in a much weaker showing in the second debate, while Bush, his face wired-up with muscle motion detectors implanted by ABC News to track the tiniest scowl, more than held his own. Almost alone, Fox News commentators lauded Kerry's performance in the second debate. (My guess is that they were watching the first debate that night.)

Yet, as bad as Kerry's second debate showing was -- and, make no mistake, these debates are central to Kerry's White House bid since he wants to show that he, unlike Bush, can out-debate the terrorists anywhere, anytime -- more self-inflicted wounds were on the way. In an interview published Sunday in New York Times Magazine, Kerry said that "We have to get back to the place we were, where terrorists aren't the focus of our lives, but they're a nuisance," like gambling and prostitution. And blogging.

Absorbing the lessons of the tragic Nuisance attacks of 9/11, Kerry vows to go after terrorists and to hit them using the only language these blood-thirsty killers understand: Search Warrants and Court subpoenas. In fact, as I wrote back in March, just wait till Kerry rattles those Tora-Bora caves with Indictments! And strongly-worded U.N. resolutions. That'll teach 'em to mess with Massachusetts! To show these Nuisancists he means business, Kerry will summon the rough justice of ol' Martha's Vineyard, hanging posters saying, Wanted: Osama, Alive or . . Alive. Pretty Please? It's all part of Kerry's plan for waging a smarter War on Nuisance. And if, after all this, al-Qaeda still doesn't get it, then -- but only then -- will Kerry deploy that ultimate weapon of last resort: He'll hold a summit. In town hall format.

Today, of course, is the third and final presidential debate (I'm writing this early morning Wednesday). Just Bush and Kerry again -- Nader (whose motto is, 'Work like your 90 points down!') won't be joining, of course, but Kerry sounds more and more like Nader these days -- a clear sign he's worried about Mr. 'Unsafe At Any Speed', who's on the ballot in key battleground states, and that he's underperforming among core Democrats with just three weeks to go. In contrast, Bush enjoys near unanimous support among Republicans and right-leaning independents. Do the math: Bush won 271 Electoral votes and 48% of the popular vote in 2000. That's 48% of the popular vote for a governor against a sitting vice president in 'prosperous' times (the 'prosperous' stuff is debatable, I know, but let's leave that aside). You'll recall the late breaking DUI charge which rocked the Bush campaign and broke Bush's late momentum. Still, Bush got 48% of the vote and 30 states. Bush is now Commander-in-Chief, in wartime, with 50 approval in most polls and leads his challenger on major issues by whopping margins. If anyone here doubts Bush will get that 48% and rack up another 7 or 8 percentage points, let me know. I've got some lovely submarine property for sale.

Anyway, that's...

My two cents

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[Guffman]

Yes, thank you for that message!

[Pippin]

Good Afternoon, MrsTank!

[Guffman]

Sigh, I know...
:o)

[mrstank]

Great essay JH2. Reading it after watching the debate makes the truth stand out all that much more.

Awesome pledge graphic Dutchess. I never tire of seeing our Commander in Chief.

[phancypants]

GWB was really wonderful in the debate last night, and I think kerry showed his true colors and how classless he is.
Who can follow Bush's heartfelt story about meeting Laura with the "I married a rich woman" remark?

[phancypants]

I thought it was inapproriate of kerry to bring up Cheney's daughter. Since when did private family matters become public fodder?

[Guffman]

Thank you two as well!

[Guffman]

Yes! kerry was quite classless, while GWB was so sweet to his wife.
And you're right about Cheney's daughter! Most people think the same thing. Not good for kerry!

[phancypants]

I just signed up on another site to adopt another soldier.
I'm out of control!
See ya later, I'm off to finish some business before heading back to work!

[Guffman]

You're a compassionate phancy :o)

I'm off too! Enjoy your day, everyone!

[mrstank]

Good afternoon.

I am going to attempt to share a picture (I haven't had the greatest sucess with this in the past) that reminded me of a comment out of the second Presidential debate. I didn't see the debate, but heard the clip several times. It's the exchange between Kerry and President Bush about us going alone into Iraq. If that's the case...how do you explain this picture?

133rd Engineer Battalion photo

Korean soldiers in tan, Kurdish Pershmerga in green, and an American soldier stop for a group photo during a middle of the night resupply mission in the Arbil.

[phancypants]

They're great!
Thanks to all of our brave allies!

[Pippin]

Hi, Everybody!

Got a few things on my mind I need to get off my chest.

Things that have been bothering me for quite some time.

Y'all know how much I love my country and I pray for it's survival each and every day, especially since 09/11/01.

But now I'm worried about another threat creeping up ever so much closer as we come near to Nov. 2.

The news I've been hearing and the things I've been witness to lead me to believe we should all be afraid for the USA.

I fear we are heading for a breakdown of this great nation, now let me explain,

First there is the really farout liberal lefties and Bush/America haters spewing thier trash, making phoney documenteries and writing books full of lies about our President and our Counry. Then there were the "nine dwarves" each seeking to unseat GWB, who wins this particular contest to see who goes up against the President?

A lowlife, arrogant; flipflppping, traitor becomes the banner carrier for a once great party!

I don't have to say much about him as there has been much discussion and debating about Sen. Gone off to who-knows-where. Maybe N.Korea to see his buddies?

Now the biased and hateful news media, even FNC is leaning ever more to the left! I noticed they play more and longer soundbites from Kerry than from Bush.

Why's that?

Do they hate Bush THAT much, I'd really like to know why they do?

ut, not only do I see and hear all about what folks are doing to the President, ther is also the way they are treating his supporters! I mean, stealing BC campaign signs; scaring little children who happen to be at political rallies with thier parents; to vandalizing BC campaign hdqtrs. There is also a story of Republicans being treated villy by Democrats in all parts of the counry.

It is getting worse as the year goes ever closer to Elecion Day.

I'm afraid of what will happen when Bush get's re-elected, will these libs and dems rise up on us and start the second Civil War?

Did they forget that there are terrorists out there who only are interested in killing Americans? regardless if they support Kerry or President Bush?

Did they forget?

Did WE forget?

I really wish that we could all remember we are Americans BEFORE we are Democrats or Republicans.

[Pippin]

That was uncalled for!

[mrstank]

Yay! It worked!! I have been trying to do that for months! Now I can finally share pictures of my husband who has been deployed since January, in Iraq since March.

[Pippin]

God bless you and God bless our troops everywhere. particularly in Iraq!

[mrstank]

You bring up good points. Many of them concerns that I have had as well. I always chalked it up to the fact that this is the first Presidential election I've had part in, and I'm a military wife. As such, I thought perhaps I was just more sensitive than most.

My husband talked of the rumblings of the possibility of another Civil War in this country before he left for Iraq. Since I've kind of had my head in the ground lately due to being overworked, how much of a possibility is this? I can see that their is great division in this country, but will anyone ever actually act on it to start a Civil War?

[mrstank]

Here we are about 20 minutes before he boarded the bus for Ft. Dix on his way to Iraq.

I have to get the others up on the website first. Maybe by next week I can have a few more to post.

[Pippin]

I pray not!

[Pippin]

Tell him thak you for his service to our country!

And thank YOU too!