Thanks, Tommy Thompson, you’re our winner!
I think Arnold Schwarzenegger’s, Governor Schwarzenegger’s speech last night was one of the finest I’ve ever seen at a convention, and I’ve been going to conventions for 28 years. his speech was outstanding, he gave a portrayal, he painted a picture of why people should be a Democrat, better and more ably than any person I’ve ever heard before.
Emphasis added. Thanks Atrios!
I was never much of a Jack Kemp fan but TNR’s blog has an interesting piece about Jack Kemp and Jewish voters among other things.
Not that even Giuliani has a good chance of getting a large piece of the Jewish vote for Bush, but it’s an interesting story from the otherwise uninteresting RNC convention.
So after months of hinting that something big was in the wind, Josh Marshall & friends have broken their story. The thesis?
The DoD-Ghorbanifar meetings suggest the possibility that a rogue faction at the Pentagon was trying to work outside normal US foreign policy channels to advance a “regime change” agenda not approved by the president’s foreign policy principals or even the president himself.
I need to go dig into my library to confirm this (and it’s late Saturday night so I’m not going to do it now) but I have a recollection that Ghorbanifar did in fact have some sort of Israeli connection as well as being a player in Iran-Contra way back when. If I’m remembering correctly, then it’s quite possible that Mossad is involved in this whole DOD/intelligence passing mess and boy is that not good for the Jews.
All that said, this is not the “bombshell that’s going to rock Washington” that Marshall was promising, unless there’s more yet to come. Bummer.
I thought it was hilarious, per Atrios:
I swear that I witnessed George W. Bush having carnal relations with a swine. I am willing to sign an affadavit stating so.
I can now appear in commercials stating. “I am a pig farmer. While at a campaign stop in Iowa. George Bush attacked one of my sows. George Bush is a pigfucker. I know, because I was there.”
Soon I will appear on the cable news shows. The Washington Post will dutifully report on my claims, because, it will not judge my credibility. I will be appointed to be a federal judge by the Kerry administration. My career path is set. Bring it on.
2 Russian airplanes go boom and it’s barely a blip in the US press. Why? Because it’s internal terrorism.
A top Russian official acknowledged Thursday what many citizens already suspected — that terrorism was the most likely cause of two jetliners crashing minutes apart, a feeling reflected in a newspaper headline warning that “Russia now has a Sept. 11.”
A day later, a Web site known for militant Muslim comment published a claim of responsibility for Wednesday’s twin plane crashes, connecting the action to Russia’s fight against separatists in Chechnya.
OTOH, I suppose the lack of press is good in that at least it won’t inflame the paranoid among us even more.
Yet more proof that you don’t need to make stuff up when – from their own mouths – you can have why God wants you to Vote Republican (not!)
And even better, they have a source list for the quotes in the cartoon.