Category: Political Pontifications
That Darned No-Fly List!
Senator Ted Kennedy is a bit unhappy that he was stopped in airports five times in March because his name appeared on a “no-fly” list. Apparently, a known terrorist is also using “T Kennedy” as an alias and it took about three weeks for Kennedy to get his name removed. He, of course, used these [...]
Hey! Two Papers in the Game
Finally – FINALLY! – the New York Times covers the Swift Boat Veterans’ allegations against John Kerry. Man, these reporters really did some digging… …into the Swift Boat Veterans’ organization itself. The entire first half talks about how John O’Neill, a successful Texas lawyer with a large law practice, represented people who know successful Texas [...]
Kerry Critic Criticized
Well, Good Lord, folks. The Swift Vets story is still out there and it’s even being picked up by major newspapers – well not the New York Times or the Washington Post – but other major newspapers. But that’s not exactly true. The Washington Post ran its first story on the Swift Boat Veterans’ criticisms [...]
Honey, is Ammonium Nitrate an Earth Tone?
The Washington Post’s lead editorial takes New York City officials to taks, mildly, for how they’ve handled security for the upcoming Rebublican National Convention. The editors say, in part: Terrorism fears are legitimate, and some of the protest groups include people with histories of violent behavior at demonstrations. The First Amendment does not give protesters [...]
Kerry Really Doesn’t Get It, Does He?
Among his comments criticizing Bush’s troop realignment (a superlative idea, by the way) he said this: “Every Arab country has a stake in not having a failed Iraq…” Look, I’m no foreign policy guru, and I certainly wasn’t a Vietnam War Hero, but even I know this is wrong. Of course, some Arab countries have [...]
MoveOn, Folks. Nothing to See Here.
By now, you’ve probably caught the blurb that MoveOn is running an ad to counter the Swift Boat Veterans’ ad. The ad, according to the WaPo, says that the President “allowed” the Swift Boat Vets to run their advertisement and demands: “George Bush: Take that ad off the air…”. And a MoveOn spokesman said that [...]
So, About that “Suspicious Timing” Thing, Guys…
You may or may not remember this: A counterterrorism expert: Larry Johnson, a former counter-terrorism official at the CIA and State Department, calls the Bush administration “irresponsible” for raising the terror threat level. Johnson says intelligence suggests attacks on U.S. financial institutions have been considered — not that they are in the works. But today [...]
It’s Bush’s Fault!
I was watching the end of “Hardball” last night and I caught a great exchange involving Chris Matthews, Tad Devive (the Kerry spokesman), and Matthew Dowd (the Bush spokesman). They were talking about Tom Harkin’s calling Vice President Cheney a “coward”. Do you know why, according to the Kerry campaign, Harkin unleashed this attack? It’s [...]
That’s What You Said