Miserable Failure

Offtopic - Have you seen the story on Kos about Ginny Schrader's campaign getting hacked, and the footprints leading directly back to the RNC?

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/10/3/15632/4744

Republican Dirty Tricks again. What's worrying is that most campaigns don't have the cash to build a really good firewall - how many other Democratic campaign websites have been hacked? How many lost donations could we have, floating in the ether? Or supporter contact information...?

This deserves serious investigation, and serious publicity. We know that Republicans are not net-honest - look at the Senate memos scandal, after all.

Yeah, we're watching that real close, kos and Jerome have done such a good job covering it that we've left it to them, but we'll let everybody know if we get news.

The debate video is so effective! Can it be used as a political ad?

Please lower the volume on the music accompaning the Enron video. The message is powerful without the hype---also, more emphasis should be given to the fact that Enron bankrolled Bush.

Read about Michael Fox on the campaign trail with Kerry talking about stem cells. This should be taped and used as an ad---with a tag line by a Nobel winner(s) about some ailments that this research would benefit.

Good luck.

"that most campaigns don't have the cash to build a really good firewall."

www.ipcop.org

You don't require a lot of cash to have a great firewall. It's Open source. (Free.) You just require an old PII with a few good network cards, depending upon your volume.

-b

i agree, kill that music and the messages becomes the focal point. great job though!

The cozy connections between Enron, the Bushes, The Carlyle Group, The Bin Laudin Group and others expose the absolute corruption in this administation.

Meet the Oligarchs.

maybe you would like to add artdog to your links....he bites!

Thanks for the comments, working on the music for the Enron video...

you can find artdog at joescyberartcafe.com

Some cars with Kerry stickers have been vandalized here in Chicago -- in Chicago which will go for Kerry with a 50 point margin.

I can never undersand why the DEM are always willing to leave the lapdog suckupmedia GET AWAY WITH THE LIES CAST ON THE DEM. PARTY WHY WE DON'T GETDOWN AND DIRTY AS THEY ARE. ALSO LET BRAKE UP THE CORP; MEDIA.

I can never undersand why the DEM are always willing to leave the lapdog suckupmedia GET AWAY WITH THE LIES CAST ON THE DEM. PARTY WHY WE DON'T GETDOWN AND DIRTY AS THEY ARE. ALSO LET BRAKE UP THE CORP; MEDIA.

Is there video for these clips? I'm only getting audio. Love the Enron one. I'm still fuming about our winter of rolling blackouts and outrageous price hikes just when GW got into office, and how he helped them do it.

I think one of the problems with putting together one of those free firewalls is that you need to have someone with some serious computer savviness to manage and maintain it...

Video should work, it's windows media - sorry for any problems.

I'd like to see the videos available in a format other than Windows' WMV. How about a non-proprietary format like mpeg? "Should work"... sounds like windows, all right ;)

The Republican Parties should be held accountable for there actions.

Kerry will win one thing the end of this month
BEST FRANKENSTIEN without a MASK

If you want the debate video to be credible, you have to minimize the cuts. Let Bush speak in context... He's his own worst enemy. The cuts raise suspicions that you're manipulating every word. For better or worse, Democrats must live up to a higher standard of proof. The president appears so pathetic that the video is more easily dismissed as fraudulent. It's hard enough for people to believe that ANYBODY could be such a moron, never mind the POTUS.

I don't want this posted, but I am using you to put forward an idea about an ad. To be brief: I think an ad that says that Kerry would be better at understanding other cultures, specifically the Middle East, (as compared to the ideas right wing think tanks have invented). This would connect to Kerry's stated goals of keeping us safer, using experts, making good judgments, etc. I think it has to be spelled out clearly to some of the voters.

more needs to be said and done about forwarding an energy independence plan for america via renewable domestic sources. specifically; solar, wind, bio-fuels, energy efficiency and conservation technologies can all together add up to provide a literal surplus of transportation fuels and electricity. refer to amory lovins at the rocky mountain institute in colorado and the european union's plan for renewable energy development.

I think that BOTH candidates have good ideas as well as some bad ones. And of course, BOTH have a not so good record on more than a few things. Basically, I will vote for the "much lesser of the two evils" and that would be Bush.

Do you want to lessen corporate influence on congressional legislation?

Take the following action.

My action plans to increase the minimum wage, extend unemployment insurance and replace the meager Republican prescription drug benefit with a prescription drug benefit under Medicare part B.

Call Walmart at 1-800-966-6546 and demand they help extend unemployment benefits and increase the minimum wage to 9 dollars an hour or you will not buy from them until they get the Republicans in Washington DC to extend unemployment benefits for those whose benefits ran out as far back as August 2003 and increase the minimum wage to 9 dollars an hour.

Call Eckerd Pharmacy Corporate Headquarters at 800 325 3737, Call CVS Pharmacy Corporate headquarters at 888 607 4287 and Call Walgreens Pharmacy Corporate headquarters at 800 289 2273 and tell them we will not purchase any products from their drug stores but will patronize them in the future if they can get the congress to pass a prescription drug benefit as described in the petition at

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/383366962

Please read and sign the petition.

Thank you.

That vid was so compelling I sent it to my entire list - including Republicans - with the message that all Americans benefit from *checks and balances* in governemnt and that a lot of little donations add up.

Thanks Rosamond, right on! Spread the word!

http://www.hoflink.com/~dbaer/bush_gold_coin_full.jpg

http://www.hoflink.com/~dbaer/bushdollar.jpg

http://www.hoflink.com/~dbaer/national-security2.jpg

Enjoyed the video titled "Miserable Failure" which was the summation of the first debate; however, the music was so loud I could barely make out what was being spoken, and the written quotations and factoids flashed by so fast that only a speed reader could read them. Perhaps you could scroll or flash them slowly at the bottom of the screen while showing clips of Bush squirming and batting his eyes. Also, I think you should use the Kerry quote about Bush Senior doing the right thing when he didn't invade Iraq and that the current Bush is following a neo-con policy which was deemed too dangerous and risky and a failure twenty years ago by real conservatives.

Yeah, I that Bush Sr. quote woulda been good, not sure how I forgot that. Sorry about the text, tried to space that out well, but you're not the first to say that. I've had pretty good luck with the audio levels on the Miserable Failure one, but the Enron audio is tough to fix because we got the audio as a single track from a blogger, and you can't really adjust one aspect as opposed to another - sorry!

no way in hell would I vote for KERRY!
NO WAY!
WE NEED A LEADER IN THE WHITEHOUSE, NOT A INDECISIVE FOLLOWER

An ad should be on TV fast-forwarding through that 7 LONG minutes that Bush did NOTHING after being told twice that the U.S. was being attacked. If anyone thinks Bush should lead this country after that, then they are in the same fantasy world that he is!

what are those bolts coming out on both sides of Kerry's neck during the debate? and, why did he need a cheat sheet?

If you look closely at the video, BUSH is the one who had a cheat sheet, NOT Kerry.

you could see him taking it out of his pocket, doesnt surprise me, cheated on getting out of Namn, with faking injuries & cheats during debates
[A tight zoom analysis of the Boston.Com feed shows Kerry pulling a mysterious item his jacket [14 seconds into video, after commerical]. Kerry appears to unfold some sort of paper seconds later, at his podium.]

http://www.boston.com/news/special/politics/debate_video/sept29/1.html

I don't want this posted, but I am using you to put forward an idea about an ad. To be brief: I think an ad that says that Kerry would be better at understanding other cultures, specifically the Middle East, (as compared to the ideas right wing think tanks have invented). This would connect to Kerry's stated goals of keeping us safer, using experts, making good judgments, etc. I think it has to be spelled out clearly to some of the voters.

Yeah, here's a pic for ya:

http://us.news2.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/fwd/20041001/capt.fwd101b20041001jpg.jpg

Peddle that Drudge garbage elsewhere, and stop crying, you lost the debate - badly.

what is that photo suppose to show jesselee? all I see in it is our decisive leader and some frankenstein looking creature

First time I've been to this site. I think the video was great - cut the music, please. I especially enjoy reading the republican whining messages! Terrific! republicans: Tell all your friends to take the time to post comments. By the way, all of us need to resolve to STOP calling the republican party the G.O.P. The republicans are not a Grand Old Party. Call them the worst name there is...republicans!

So, you Repooplicans, er, Republicans, think Bush is making us SAFER?!?!
Read it and WEEP!!!

Amount needed for basic security upgrades for subway and commuter trains in large cities: $6 BILLION
(Iraq spending equivalent: 20 days)
Bush budget allocation for train security: $100 MILLION
(Iraq equivalent: 8 hours)

Amount needed to equip all U.S. airports with machines that screen baggage for explosives: $3 BILLION
(Iraq equivalent: 10 days)
Bush budget allocation for baggage-screening machines: $400 MILLION
(Iraq equivalent: 32 hours)

Amount needed for security upgrades at 361 U.S. ports: $1.1 BILLION
(Iraq equivalent: 4 days)
Bush budget allocation for port security: $210 MILLION
(Iraq equivalent: 17 hours)

Amount needed to buy radiation portals for U.S. ports to detect dirty bombs in cargo: $290 MILLION
(Iraq equivalent: 23 hours)
Bush budget allocation for radiation portals: $43 MILLION
(Iraq equivalent: 3 hours)

Amount needed to help local firefighters prepare for terrorist attacks: $36.8 BILLION
(Iraq equivalent: 122 days)
Bush budget allocation for firefighter grants: $500 MILLION
(Iraq equivalent: 40 hours)

Amount needed to get local emergency medical crews ready for terrorist atttacks: $1.4 BILLION
(Iraq equivalent: 5 days)
Bush budget allocation for emergency medical training grants prior to eliminating program altogether: $50 MILLION (Iraq equivalent: 4 hours)

Sources:
All Bush allocation figures taken from administration estimates of FY 2005 budget

You're as blind as your leader is, Kristy.

Seems to me it shows GW with a bunch of notes at his podium.

Sherrill: Beautiful stuff, re: war budget vs homeland security.

And jesselee, this site is absolutely wonderful. This is my first time here -- learned of it from the Randi Rhodes show -- and I'm thoroughly impressed.

I'm an ex-Republican who saw the light. Your site is now going out to my mailing list as well.

Keep up the great work!

So, you Repooplicans, er, Republicans, think Bush is making us SAFER?!?!
Read it and WEEP!!!
"Repooplicans" YOU ARE TOO FUNNY! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

M Fox - thank ya kindly!

KRISTY - I have to say the stats posted by Sherill were more convincing than the "Repooplicans" line, but they were also much more convincing than your rebuttal. And yes, that appears to be a notebook on Bush's podium, which will no doubt save Drudge a great deal of work as he rushes to break the story (chirp).

We demand higher quality trolling!

Beautiful. Big hugs; glad to see you've got some fight in ya.

-O

jesselee, THEY BOTH HAD NOTEBOOKS - BLANK! FOR THEM TO WRITE NOTES ON DURING THE DEBATE, WERE NOT SUPPOSE TO BRING CHEAT SHEETS WITH THEM!
ONCE A CHEATER, ALWAYS A CHEATER

Ok, KRISTY, you got me to waste some time researching, which I guess means you win.

Here's your precious NY Post on the subject:

"But the mystery was solved when The Post reviewed a Fox News Channel feed from Thursday's debate: Kerry pulled out . . . a black pen."

http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/31273.htm

And that's from a right wing hack paper based on a right wing hack video. Now if you want to talk about "cheating," allow me to point you to Rep. Waxman's letter in this post above:

http://blog.dccc.org/mt/archives/001245.html

The letter discusses how your president and his administration willfully misled us into war. The "real investigation" into whether he used a black pen or a red pen to do so is still and open question, to be fair.

Now see, if the Kerry campaign was smart, they would slap the name "delusional" on Bush, much the same way that Repubs use the words "flip-flop" on Kerry.

It is a much stronger and more serious charge. Every Dem that goes on TV should do it.

Two weeks straight of doing that will see his approval rating plummet to the point that even the mainstream media will be able to lie about his numbers anymore.

Throw in the facts that he intends to reinstate the draft, and start 3 more wars with Iran, Syria, and Saudi Arabia, and he's packing his bags back to Crawford.

The ENRON video AND the debat video MUST be used as campaign commercials!!

The ENRON video AND the debate video MUST be used as campaign commercials!!

Kristy, not surprisingly, you just don't get it. It's not about cheat sheets, or notebooks, or even cheap shots like lightening bolts, haha. It's about the economy, and over 1000 dead bodies stupid! It's about rolling blackouts, bankrupt public schools, and depriving people of healthcare. It's about a consistent agenda of deception to realize personal goals, at the expense of the American people and the global environment. It's about failure, and destruction on so many levels, and refusal to reckon with it, despite resounding pleas. I know I'm probably just preaching to the choir, or are any Duh-blicans listening?

I can't wait until November 3, when Bush gets elected for four more years and all the Bush-haters get completely fed up and move to Canada. This country will be a much better place.

I just finished reading "The Family-The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty" by Kitty Kelley. 705 pages in 4 days. If even 50% of the quotes and facts included are accurate, the choice to vote for Kerry/Edwards cannot be denied. It is a fascinating book and should be required reading for all American voters.

The energy piece is too long but that's a quibble. All in all great. I like what you're doing with the money I chipped in!

Good to hear Dave, thanks for stopping by.

As other posters have mentioned, I think having to speed-read the text takes away from the effect. I thought the music was fine though.

Thanks Alan, fair enough, I'll definitely space those out next time.

And P.S., for trolls looking to harp on the cheat sheets, I would direct you to the Drudge Report, where that story has conveniently disappeared.

...As they say, once a cheater always a cheater.

It seems to me that if the American people knew the extent to which the US Administration has been dropping bombs containing depleted uranium, that alone would be sufficient motivation for them to vote for tossing Bush out of office.

The media is controlled to such an extent it will never make public the news that numerous such bombs are causing radiation sickness and cancer in countless innocents abroad, permanently contaminating once-productive fields in other peoples homelands, and producing malignancies in American troops within a few months of their having handling these armaments.

When 2750 people die on Sept. 11, 2001 you cannot call your President strong on Defense.

why dont dems do more and fight back against the lies? who would you vote for if they were as bad as reps? everyone knows how to lie, some choose not to.

** Comment above removed for naughty language, sorry Katie. We have gotten official word that the NRCC boys are paying attention today.

Shoulda said before, watch out for dem trolls.

What blows my mind is how Republicans (who continue to back Bush) can see the lives being blown apart in Iraq and not grieve their hearts out. The entire world hates what we did - yet Bush and his supporters insist HE is correct, and everyone else is wrong. Then, he
talks democracy while taking away our rights, one piece at a time. This is insanity!

ok, i posted the first msg when i read 1/2 the blog. now i read bout 3/4. i think thre needs to be an age restriction, or atleast some people (republicans) need to take thier time to post, maybe there can be an intelligent discussion. othewise, it doesnt matter, republicans buy into the lies, believe cnn and fox, they dont want to hear the truth.
i only voted a few times. i didnt know if regan was goodd. my parents never told me anything bout politics, they let me make my own mind up. since the 2000 steal/election, i read. and read alot. you cant find unslanted news anywhere. the reporters have minds of thier own. i tried soemthing the day after the debate, it made me sick. i read the dnc and the rnc webssites about the debate. the rnc didnt focus onthe debate at all, instead it tried to showw kerry in a bad light. its true that he voted for the pres to have authority to goto war, its troo that he voted against the 87 billion that eventualkly passed. lets look at that 87 billion, only 600 000 000 dollars ahve been spent, the rest seems to be lost. kerry may have changed his mind a few times, thats cause the situation changed. so hes flexable. he changes with the world. imagine that, a president that would say, we are in a war now, we must fight! we must never give up! what party was jfk in? didnt he stop nam? hasnt this been compaired to nam?
the republics reading this should also read the gaurgian.uk.com and thestar.com
tehres also my fave, buzzflash.com
has a buncha links to everyhting, very rarely is cnn or fox in the 150+ headlines it links to. i was never affiliated with a party, but now after what i see with the reps, im totally against them, and forever will be. thier lies and cheats, thier false promices. thier trickery. and then theres always the deteriation of civil rights, where a terrorist, one who uses fear to aquier 'something', like the pres does, we all wanted this war! wag the doggy! a terrorist could be anyone? i dont have an exact figue, if anyone wants to prove me wrong, please do, over 1100 terrorist have been arrested or detained. 1 was a 65 year old special ed teacher wit ha leather bookmark. 1 was a drunken guy with a fear of flying begging the stuardess to get him a 3rd drink. then there was the 11 or so chinese guys that mutinied their japanese captors/captian and came to america for political asylam, where we promptly arrested them. ofthose 1100 arrested, only bout150 made it to trial, and of that, less than 1/2 were convited. but, there was one jsut 2 weeks ago, military explosive expert, in his carry on bag he had an undisclosed abount of hihgh explosing, and 5 50 cal machine gun bullets (if you dont register them with uninited airlines you fdace a 20 year prison sentance). he didnt get charged with anything.
bush is keeping us much safer :) arrest everyone! anyone left, kill em

Sad that all Bush's cheerleader could come back with is a pitiful remark on personal appearances, I suppose you pefer looking at a pic of a youthful dashing young GW laughing at a party with his other elite friends about how daddy got him out of Nam and even a uniform??

http://www.buzzflash.com/burns/04/09/bur04125.html
jsut an addition for all you bush lovers
i personally like em shaved...
i know i posted to much....

Although I wasn't able to view the video, I got the gist of it from the comments. A suggestion is to give a brief description of the video next time for those who may miss it.

It's sobering and telling to see that Eisenhower's son and other Republican's have decide to vote Kerry next month. When America wakes up from its self-absorbed hypnotic trance, the Bush Administration will go down in history as one of the most corrupt and destructive empires to walk the earth.

Expect to see the Republicans try to steal the election again. They've already started, as they steal everything else. I recommend they consider how hated they are in the world (and much of America), hand the reins over to Kerry and spend their days watching their backs. They need not fear the "enemy" overseas...it's the enemy that lies in wait at home that is more dangerous.

I'm ashamed we have allowed this to happen. We are a generous country filled with compassion for others. How can we allow 2% of the population to run our affairs for us and ruin our good name? Damage Control will take hundreds of years of good will and behavior to fix our foreign relations and regain our credibility, if it's not too late.

It's time to stop joking about this election over who looks or talks the best. The facts are glaring at us: Get GW out...our very lives depend on it!!!

---
"He's as innocent as a porcupine in a nudist colony..."

"What is done in the dark of night, comes to light in the dawn of day."

Eternal Darkness of the American Mind
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6997.htm

If KRISTY wishes to talk about Kerry's Vietnam service, she should consider his latest medical records.

Medical records:
http://www.markarkleiman.com/archives/lying_in_politics_/
2004/10/remember_those_cute_purple_heart_bandaids_at_the_republican_convention.php

Thanks Katie! ;)

Sorry, had to break up that link cuz it was throwing off MT for some reason, cut & paste for the medical records I'm afraid.

So Republicans feel safer under the Bush Administration?!

CNN reported tonight that in McAllen, TX, some illegal aliens are actually making the meals that our troops in Iraq eat!!! The company hired them to save $ - the people they hired have false names, false social security numbers. An Al Qaeda member in Afghanistan mentioned this place by name!! Then, in another city in TX, illegal aliens are working at a shipping place, handling sensitive government documents.

The WORLD cannot handle another four years of Bush in office!!!!!

What will be the best out of all of this, will be the irrepairable harm the Repubelikkkans will sustain from this. The exiting has begun, and the big sucking sound we will soon be hearing will be the deflation of the Republican machine. Whatever they are able to pull off on Nov2, it will not matter. To get 1Mill + in NYC for the RNC, and then to have whatever the surprise will be, to try and resteal the election, will only incite many in this country to revolt physically. Either through, work outages, sitdowns or whatever form of fight they find useful, this war was brought here because GW, Rovey, Cheney and the rest of the RNC need chaos for the New American Century to take hold. The fire was only started over there so that it would catch on here. They think they are planning the overthrow of this government in a big way. We need to speak with our votes ni such force that the there are so many votes against them, that even if they can get a couple of counties to lie and steal those votes, it would not matter one iota. Their ways of Compasionate Consrvatism are dead just like Ronnie's Trickle down economics. The Big Jipper, and GW is the little dipper.

Tick:
To answer your q: "what party was jfk in? didnt he stop nam? hasnt this been compaired to nam?"

JFK was a Dem, and no, he didn't get us out of Viet Nam. Actually, he got us into it, as a limited Police Action, not an actual war.

Johnson, also a Dem, botched it & escalated it until he realized that we were never going to win it and it would tear us apart here in the US. He refused to run for re-election. (None of this "stay the course" crap for one Texan, at least!)

Nixon, a Rep, finally got us out. Much as he hated Dems and Hippies and Commies and blacks and Jews and anti-war vets, he realized that we were going down in flames and decided to cut our losses. He got the Vietnamese into the Paris Peace Talks & then bailed us the hell out of there.

Even though Nixon was a perfect example of lying, conniving, 'do whatever you have to do to get your way' Reps, Dems weren't much better in those days, and you have to give him credit for being willing to be the first American president to lose a war when it was obvious that it couldn't be won, & the contry was tearing itself apart over it.

Which, unfortunately, is exactly what Dubya is *not* willing to do. But maybe soneone will get us out of there before we've been there for 20 years, & this mess has really turned into "another Viet Nam"...

Sherrill -
Where did you get your "amount needed" numbers for your 4:57 post?

I love the list, lots of impact, but since you sourced the Bush budget numbers, I'd like to see a source for where the estimates came from for the amount needed to do all those things... Just in case some non-believer says "prove it!".

Perhaps a better word for the Republicans, since being taken over by the religious right would be
GOPhascists. Bush is half theocrat and half fascist. Never in my wildest nightmares did I ever believe we would have a president that makes Nixon look so good (He created the EPA that W is trying to destroy). Imagine what W would have done if he had actually won the election instead of being selected in a judicial coup d'etat made possible by a formerly great man turned egomaniac (Nader).

Too funny how Kristy disappeared as soon as someone threw some facts her way. lol

thanks karin for settin me straight. it was before my time. i cant remember the history AND what dubya has done. hes done too much. everytime i ask a rep. what he(gwb) has done thats good, they can only lash out at kerry. wonder why that is.
i let the video download last night. all i gotta say is 'wow'. i knew 1/2 the stuff he said in the debates was false. i have only read a transcript, that was the first footage of the debate i saw. tonight be sure to watch john edwards face off with darth vader! some of the cuts could have been seen as manulapation, jsut his own answers were bad enuff, and the muisic was kinda loud, but i didnt have a prob with it, good job :)

Karin H.,

Here are the sources for "amount needed" numbers.

Subway and rail security upgrades
Amount needed: Statement by William W. Millar, president of the American Public Transportation Association, 5/20/04

Baggage screening
Amount needed: Government Accountability Office, "Aviation Security: Challenges Exist in Stabilizing and Enhancing Passenger and Baggage Screening Operations" [PDF], 2/12/04, p. 28

Port security upgrades
American Association of Port Authorities, “AAPA Concerned FY ’05 Lacks Funds For Port Facility Security”, 2/2/04

Radiation portals
Amount needed: Calculation based on figures from House Committee on Appropriations (Total cost of radiation portals: $495.5 million. Amount already spent: $205.5 million. Remaining amount: $290 million)

Firefighter preparedness
Amount needed: Council on Foreign Relations, "Emergency Responders: Drastically Underfunded, Dangerously Underprepared", p. 34

Emergency medical preparedness
Amount needed: Council on Foreign Relations, "Emergency Responders: Drastically Underfunded, Dangerously Underprepared", p. 37

Free firewalls are good and easy to maintain. IPCOP took me about 20 minutes to get into and understand. Freesco also worked.

May I complain about the horrible Windows Media Player problem I'm having with your ads? They launch and begin to play, but after a few moments stop to buffer and then stop entirely. As much as I dislike WMP and never select it as my choice when other options are present, it doesn't normally fail in this way.

I think it would be wise for Kerry to utilize the old phrase "life is half (or 20%) what happens to you and half how you respond to it." Bush wants to make excuses about 9/11, security fraud, being at war, etc. as to why the economy is sour, and JK should just say that. yes bad things happen, but its how you respond that counts.

no cargo on plnes is scanned at all. none! if i was a terrorist, a simple timer in a box would work fine. talk bout safe! bush is the best!

havent figgered the best at what yet

Thank you for the videos. (Please lower the music on the Enron piece.) We lost a Governor because of the energy crisis and it was caused by power manipulation via Enron. It cost Californians millions. We knew something was fishy. Sorry it took so long to ferret out this mess. Now who is going to jail? FERC? Lay? Those power brokers? Cheny? If I knew it was a crime here in my little house how come the press, the police and the government didn't??? If the Government can control the power...well imagine what else. Vote Kerry/Edwards for truth.

As a finalish note, which I should have mentioned earlier, this clip truly does not have any "cheats." Obviously clips are split and run consecutively, but it's perfectly apparent whenever it happens.

Secondly, having put this together and having watched all the clips many times, the most damning thing is just the profound self-doubt evident throughout. Over and over you see Bush looking down at the floor, flinching, almost like a tick, stuttering, and making obvious effort to muster sincerity behind statements he either doesn't really believe or doesn't understand. I chose the music (instrumental of "Streets of Philadelphia") b/c I thought it captured the desperation - in fact the original title was "broken man."

The Republicans should not get away with as much as they are, there should be safeguards against cheating.

Sincerely,

Russell J. Novkov

Jesselee, your hard work and excellence in putting these videos together are very much appreciated.

On the note of videos, Robert Redford has recorded a television message to alert Americans to the Bush Administration's giveaway of our public lands to logging, mining and oil companies. It's short, to-the-point, and very visual.

It's good to note the free/open-source options available to campaigns for protecting networked assets. What a lot of campaigns probably don't have is someone available with the needed expertise to make use of such technologies.

All the more reason to volunteer, I imagine, though I confess that it never would occur to me to call up my Dem Rep and ask if his campaign needs network security as a volunteer effort, and to be honest I'm not sure they'd know how to make use of such an offer.

Satire (with some truth):
AL-QAIDA ENDORSES BUSH FOR PRESIDENT
The al-Qaida terrorist organization announced it will throw its support to
George W. Bush for President of the United States. In a taped message, leader Osama bin-Laden stated that "since Bush invaded Afghanistan and Iraq, our membership has increased by 350%, revenues have jumped by 450%, and we've expanded our business operations to fifteen new locations, including the Phillipines, Indonesia, and southern Thailand. We're franchising faster than Starbuck's! Prior to the invasions,we struggled to position ourselves in the global marketplace. Now that our branding is solid within our niche market, the Muslim youth between the ages of 0-25, we envision continued explosive growth, especially with another four years of Bush in the White House."
Bin-Laden cited recent events that have spiked support for al-Qaida. "The
bombing of Fallujah, and the Abu Ghraib prison scandal gave us a huge lift in our Spring membership drive. And we've been able to diversify our portfolio of terror, from suicide bombings to kidnappings to beheadings, without compromising brand loyalty within our niche market. Bush's policies have spread support for the anti-American rage of the Muslim world, and we are immensely grateful. George W. Bush is by far our best recruiting weapon."
How does Osama account for the contribution of the Bush Administration to al-Qaida's rapid business expansion? "Well, we've maintained cordial family ties to the Bush family for two decades now," bin-Laden waxed warmly. Does bin-Laden plan to stump for Bush on the campaign trail? "I would love to, but I don't think it would be very beneficial. Besides, I can be much more effective for Bush while reclusing in the mountains and plotting more terror. Fear is what we hope will keep George Bush in office."
(written by Terry Braverman,author)

what's insane is Bush's 'dictatorship of democracy' to a country who didn't and doesn't want us there in the first place...if you can't see that, then you are truly blind....

//homepages.nyu.edu/~meo232/sloganator/

This is very good, but some language in it may offend a few (if it were in a movie, it'd be R-rated because of a couple of words.)

does anyone else see the irony behind the web address that Cheney gave out yesterday in defense of Haliburton? http://www.factcheck.com I believe is what he said...somehow I don't think he means for the undecided voter to go to that web site..or maybe he does...freud may have a thing or two to say about that!
btw..LOVE the video...very well done..I agree with other messages here that it should be used as an advert.

I am pro-Kerry, but I am disturbed over the following that is on the abc news website. Why would Kerry still vote to authorize invasion even if he'd known there were no WMDs??

>>>

Kerry's position is basically that Saddam needed to be put in check. In order to do so, we had to get inspectors in there, and the only way to do so was through the use of force.

That said, he has made clear since then that he would have made sure the inspectors finished their job, and therefore likely would never have gone in.

(I'm not an offical spokesman or anything, but I think that's a fair summary.)

Jesselee,
Yes, that seems like a fair assessment. Thanks for the explanation. There are so many stories floating around, that it's not that difficult to lose focus and get ideas, assumptions, half-truths, and lies becoming almost one big blur....

Glad I could help, although I see I said "the only way to do so was through the use of force" when I should have said "threat of force." I think you took it the right way though, sorry.

Jesselee,
Yes, I understood what you meant to say, and thanks again!!

To find out Cheney's history, this was on a Canadian TV station last night, and may be a real eye-opener on Cheney for some people.

www.cbc.ca/fifth/dickcheney/

It is hard for me to understand how anyone with a pulse, a heart and a head can vote Republican, so long as their party is coopted by corporate greed, neo-conservative nihilism and religious right bigotry. Their platform praises Bush and little else, except to support an amendment banning gay marriage & civil unions. We really need to show these folks the door. Their immoral incompetence goes beyond party loyalty or partisan preference. Go to Http://pencandle.tripod.com/Reclaim for more details.

Bill:
It's difficult to imagine what these people have in their little minds, but the people I know who are Republican actually have little knowledge except for what their churches are telling them, and that is to vote for Bush because he's against abortion, against gay marriages, has high morals, and is a "Christian." When I tell them that obviously they think it's okay to kill/maim innocent Iraqi children, innocent Iraqi citizens and our young soldiers, and that the only thing safe around Bush are embryos, they either give me dead silence, or go into their idea that killing in a war is not the same as "murder" and that Bush is protecting our own land from the terrorists coming here to fight. Of course, they are as much in lala land as Bush is.

letter from iraq soldier reportedly states men had to pay $6.00/day for food.
also applys to other arareas of poerations

letter from iraq soldier reportedly states men had to pay $6.00/day for food.
also applys to troops in other other areas of operations

the soldiers mother does not want name revealed. could someone check it out?

Hey - nice info. I tackled the same material - but differently:

check it out:

www.redwhiteandwhite.com

pray for america.

Quiz
Guess who said the following about Bush's Iraq war.

(1) "It's beyond pitiful, it's beyond embarrassing. It is now in the zone of dangerous."

(2) "The administration has been stubborn about troops (by insisting more troops aren't needed in Iraq or the larger war on terror). We do not need to paint a rosy scenario for the American people. We need to let the American people know this is just like World War II; we're in it for the duration."