It's good to see JFK on the offence for a change. He needs the practice because when he's elected there is still that small detail oof the House/Senate who'll be spending the next, dare I say it, eight years as well as as much of the countries money looking for a 'Blue Dress' or 'Cigar' to whine about instead of actually addressing the problems that GWB has left festering in the cellar.

Have you heard anything about debates?

What do timothy mcviegh, iraqi insurgents, the DNC and the MSM have in common?....they all rely on shock and sensationalism to achieve their goals...I recently watched John O'Neill and John Kerry's debate from the Dick Cavett Show...the arguments Kerry used in that debate are, remarkably, the same as he is using to slam the President today...being 54 years old I remember vividly the hostility and division of that time in American political history...It was not fun!

It is also not representative of America today...It is a very different world, and America today...but the MSM, the DNC, John Kerry, and the Iraqi insurgents want us to believe that it is simular...that America is weak, our military cannot prevail, and that the larger goal of the democratazation of Iraq and the greater Middle East is not possible.

I fell for those lies in the sixties and seventies...I'll not fall for them again....John Kerry is just another kind of Timothy McViegh...a fool running around in a rented vehicle hauling a load of fertilizer soaked with the fuel oil of division, pessimism, and failure...don't let him park in front of your home!

Fuck you dustyroadguy. You were stupid then, you're stupider now.

Dusty, did it ever occur to you that the same arguments from thirty plus years ago are still applicable because President Coke-is-it is just another Richard Nixon? He certainly resurrected enough dinosaurs from the Nixon White House to make this a Nixon sequel.

christian rock? what the fuck is that? "we will, we will convert you!"

Tim
ROTFLMAO!!

:)

Jo

dustyroadguy, my father was a vet back then, he saw this with his own eyes, the problem wasn't the 'peaceniks', it was the people in D.C., just as it is the people in D.C. now. They are the ones who see the world through rose-colored glasses, not the ones out there on the front lines or the people back home who see this folly now as then, for what it is. Today we have access to information like no other time in world history. Now we can seperate the wheat from the chaff better than no time before. And when we do, we see the 'commie propaganda' comes from the right, not from the left. If you support the right and the republicans, move to North Korea, that is where your true loyalties lie.

I like your optimism, but....

A new poll suggests that "Voters are uneasy about Democrat John Kerry's ability to handle an international crisis."

At this point, I think I have given up on the American electorate. They are buffoons and children, and they, we, deserve George W. Bush, because they--the majority of us--have chosen to be dazzled by his falsehoods: falsehoods about himself and falsehoods he spreads against John Kerry. They, we, instead choose this man, Bush, who ignored national security reports warning him of terrorists determined to use airplanes as weapons; who sat immobilized in a classroom--the glassy look of mental short-circuiting coating his eyes--when told that the second plane had hit the WTC; who continued reading My Pet Goat for want of something more decisive to do; who then used the 9/11 attack (an attack against America in my city! that endangered my friends and killed seven men from my fire station one block away) as an excuse to invade Iraq, misleading us as to Iraq's capabilities, and because of this let the war against the terrorists flounder when he switched all our resources to this reckless invasion of a land whose oil he coveted, a nation devoid of WMDs and terrorists, but which now--thanks to this man--teems with huddled masses yearning to make Americans bleed. This man, Bush, in the process of all of this, utterly isolated the United States of America--a once revered nation deemed the standard bearer of Democracy--and turned us into the most despised nation on the planet, a nation that will get little help as we sink into Iraq's abyss, suffocate under debt caused by Bush's tax giveaways to the rich, and eventually wake to the full magnitude of the horrible consequences that his "dry drunk" illogic and grotesque misunderstanding of Christianity has wrought.

All this as Bush's record, and America is worried about Kerry's ability to lead in crisis?! Then, America deserves George W. Bush!

Heaven forbid America election John Kerry--a man who in the crisis of combat, of ambush, took charge and saved the life of a comrade. Heaven forbid America elect a proven senator with a deep patriotism that is combined with an international worldview. Heaven forbid America elect someone who as a gov't prosecutor went after organized crime and made life better for thousands. Heaven forbid America elect someone who shed blood in foreign lands...for us! for YOU! and who then returned and spoke out against a war because he hated too much to see us do the wrong thing at the expense of our young men! Heaven forbid we elect someone with a sterling education evocative of the learnedness of our nation's Founders! Heaven forbid we elect someone who has the compassion to care, the savvy to practice wise diplomacy, and the connections to pull the globe's democracies back together into a more perfect confederacy of nations determined to cooperate against the threats of religious extremism and terrorism. Heaven forbid!

And heaven just might forbid it, or so it would appear. Our nation has never been so corrupt; the poor have never been so poor compared to the richest of us, who have never before been so rich; and we pollute our environment, poison our children's air, and swagger like frat punk drunkards upon the world's stage, and heaven, if there is a heaven, is expected to tolerate this? No. No, heaven is likely to give us just what we deserve: mis-leadership, deceit, and surprisingly swift decline.

The very future of the republic hangs in the balance.

Christian rock is for people who can't handle gospel music.

The way I've always seen it, if you can't listen to Bill Monroe or Ralph Stanley sing bluegrass gospel - theres something fundamentally wrong with your soul in the first place. If you've never listened to the Dixie Hummingbirds, then you've never lived. And, how bout the sacred steel guitars of The Campbell Brothers?

Christian rock? Please. I'd rather watch CNN.

For the record: George W. Bush does not own a ranch in Crawford, Texas. He owns Ken Engelbrecht's pig farm, and in fact hired Ken as his foreman to manage the farm. He owns a whole three head of cattle (bought from Engelbrect) in order to classify the place as a "working ranch" under Texas law and thus qualify it for a 50% property tax reduction. (Screw those kids who depend on property taxes in order to fund their schools, if the little rug rats got edumacated they might not vote for Jeanna Bush for President 20 years from now!). Any other cattle on the property are Engelbrecht's.

It is extremely unlikely that George W. Bush is going to retire to his pig farm when he gets re-defeated in November. The place was purchased as a trophy spread in 1999 as he ran for President, and while he's spent a helluva lot of time there over the past four years (more time than he's spent in the White House), George is by nature a city slicker, who until 1999 thought "nature" was what happened inside a bar in a big city. I mean, the man doesn't even know how to ride a horse, he rides a freakin' GOLF CART around his property! It is likely that, like his Daddy, he'll end up retiring to a mansion in the tony River Oaks district of Houston or a McMansion in one of the more exclusive new gated communities in the Houston area (one with a golf course, since he loves Sparky, his favorite golf cart!), with occasional trips to the Bush family compound on Walker's Point in Maine.

Badtux the "Why do we let Bush get away with calling a pig farm a ranch?" Penguin

Agreed Barndog. Bluegrass has a lot of soul in it.

I'm just hoping the rapture spirits away all the nutjobs. Getting down with the locusts and frogs and other plagues would be far less dangerous to the health of those of us who lack imagination in our delusions and think Christ was a dude who stood for peace.

And speaking of Ralph Stanley-- he's playing a benefit gig for Kerry in Richmond Virginia on October 21st. It'll be great to hear the sounds of real music as a warm up for January, when we finally get a real leader in the White House- JK.

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