There’s the liberal media again. Purposefully misconstruing Oklahoma Representative Tom Cole’s remarks as meaning that electing John Kerry would be like electing Adolf Hitler.

Clearly what Tom Cole actually means is that if Kerry is elected, Saddam Hussein will escape custody, find Osama Bin Laden, and provide him the materials that will have a mushroom cloud over Los Angeles in August of 2005.

Clearly that’s what he meant.

I put the question asked at the Democratic Debate and had a thread at Clyde Lewis’s forum. For your, um…, edification, the responses:

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sh101: More to the point: is Bush on America’s side?

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zenarchy: If God is on all sides, who’s gonna win? If God grants the wishes of his followers, will we all die?

We’re DOOMED! ACK! ACK!

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DOUGLAS: Other than some old testament stuff.
god has washed his hands of war.
also old testament stuff.
He is on no side.
God will not condone MURDER!
I mean war…
We just Kill each other for fun and profit.

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george: As Captain Picard has said elsewhere that he was taking a break in the holo….So let’s all head up to the Holo-Deck and see what’s happening, O there’s David Icke, f… him, he just a hologram, lets talk with him anyway, hey mate, how’s your digital self treating you?…just fine mate, don’t need any Viagra in this mode….great, David, be seeing ya, we’re off to find some hot Lizard chicks to marry, we had to annul those Klingons, too macho…understand mate, good hunting.

O there is Jesus, yo, bro, whose side you on?… Mary our Mothers sides, back, front, top, bottom, every bit of it, with Me daddy Joseph and all our family, just waiting for you all to forgive one another so we-all can get into what I have in MIND…..wow, awesome….see ya my MAN…wow, did you see HIM shape/shift, just awesome

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mariposa: I think when one looks at God like a Parent figure, I fugure he figures He’ll just let us duke it out for awhile, and when He gets real sick of this family feuding, He’ll just come on in and start kickin’ the sh*t of of everybody, figuratively speaking, that is.

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(relatively embarrassing user name): OK George…..What ever you are on stop taking it. I feel stoned just for reading what you said, and I have not done drugs of that sort since 1987.

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(another relatively embarrassing user name): Is God on our side? Well, the 3rd Commandment says “You shall not take the name of your Lord in vain” In other words, saying that “God is on our side” is breaking the 3rd of the Ten Commandments. Just a little FYI for all of you religious types out there…

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Supposedly Kerry’s 1996 re-election race is one of the crucibles of Kerry’s political life — a tough-fought race where Kerry was down and out, but came storming back and showed his mettle and demonstrated what he is made of. The pundits have drawn comparisons of his recent comeback from the dead in the 2004 Democratic primary race to this 1996 campaign.

So, with that in mind, a google search through Usenet posts for the names “John Kerry” and “William Weld”, constricted to January 1, 1996 to December 31, 1996 so as to highlight everything from relatively early prognasticating as the race clearly shaped up to post-mortem analyses of what just happened brings us:

184 results. 72 non-repetitive.

… And On to what’s there…
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Well, it’s not quite “Morning In America.” What it is is “America: Turning the Corner”.

Or, to put a finer spin on John Marshal Micah’s take on the ads’ message, and to quote the Mayor Quimby for Mayor Mayoral Committee: “It’s not the Mayor’s fault that the Stadium Collapsed.
If you were running for mayor, he’d vote for you.”

If anyone wants to see them on the web, look around the blogs. Otherwise, watch during news programming in the swing states mentioned on the left bar over there. Or watch the various blatthering fests where the chattering class will moronically dissect them… which is where the advertisements get their biggest bang for the buck anyways.

I’ve been searching for this creepy quote from Colin Powell made last month where he defends the CIA by saying something along the lines of “I know some things that they’ve been doing, and they’ve been doing an impressive job.” (suggesting a wink toward some aim the public is not privy to.)

Either connected to or not connected to America’s latest adventure in Haiti… I don’t know. I do know that one blogger connected it to the currently struggling Iranian Reform Movement, for what that’s worth.

But, did you notice? The US just aided a coup in Haiti!

Which prompted Venezuelean president Hugo Chavez to call Bush an, and I’m quoting here, “asshole.”

The Bush II administration is now one for two in its Latin American coup attempts, with a secong crack at Venezuela coming right on up. (I’m hearing the murmurs bubbling up in the press.) I remember watching the botched coup in Venezuelas, and scratching my head in confusion as the strings got tangled up in plain sight on the National News. Contradictory and illogical news item after contradictory and illogical news item. Bush praised the “new bosses” just as the old boss reasserted control — the rank and file of the military deciding not to follow the orders of the coup-leaders.

The film is The Revolution Will Not Be Televised”, which does as good a job as any explaining what I bewilderingly witnessed that weekend. The film makers were caught on the inside, in the “right place at the right time” filming their documentary of Chavez right when the coup-attempt took place. Watch for it on public access stations, it’d pop up eventually on the “Free Speech TV” feed.

Not that Hugo Chavez is anything but an authoritarian asshole hisownself.

In the case of Haiti… the American public were treated to the spectacle of the US government denying the claims made by Aristide (calling everyone he could — in the case of America that means members of the Congressional Black Caucass) that he had been kidnapped. And, of course, we got the spectacle of government officials, as well as media pundits, saying that such a claim was ludicrous… why, look at the New York Times story where “sources” told us that he “meekly asked the American ambassador in Haiti through an aide whether his resignation would help the country.
“It was as if he was the last guy in the world to figure out that the country would be better off were he to relinquish power,” the official said.

Yes. Haiti is now better off that this Aristide clown has been replaced by a classic Latin American Death Squad led by Guy Phillipe. Temporary leadership, perhaps. Perhaps Baby Doc can fill in the shoes sometime soon.

I hear that Aristide had his phone privileges cut by whoever his new caretakers are.

Arnold Schwarzenegger, on the Orin Hatch proposed-Amendment that would allow a foreign born citizen to run for president. : “There are so many people in this country that are now from overseas, that are immigrants, that are doing such a terrific job with their work, bringing businesses here, that there’s no reason why not. The key thing is you understand the political system and how it works. Look at the kind of contribution that people like Henry Kissinger have made. Madeleine Albright,”

Orin Hatch, Senator from the great state of Utah, on his proposed Constitutional Amendment: “If Arnold Schwarzenegger turns out to be the greatest governor of California, which I hope he will, if he turns out to be a tremendous leader and he proves to everybody in this country that he’s totally dedicated to this country as an American . . . we would be wrong not to give him that opportunity,”

For their parts, hefty figures of the Democratic party (including Bob Graham) endorse this proposed amendment, because it would allow a shining light from the 2002 election — Canadian born Michigan governor Jennifer Granholm, to run for president.

Here’s the problem with an Arnold Schwarzeggar — Jennifer Granholm matchup: Arnold would win. Assuming he doesn’t rape a boy during his tenure as California governor. Granholm could be the greatest governor in the world, and Arnold would still parlay his Jay Leno appearances, a multitude of cable television Schwarzeggar movie marathons, and a handy list of movie catchphrases into a successful presidential landslide. (Heck, he did it in California!)

So…. I’d support that Constitutional Amendment. IF it included a clause that kept action-movie stars from the office.

In 1996, Louie G. Youngkeit received 19 votes in his homestate of Utah.

Four years later, in 2000, he secured ballot access in Utah and received 161 votes.

An increase of 847.37% in his vote total.

A google search also shows the number “739”. Perhaps an additional 578 voters wrote his name in in the other 49 states, DC, and the American territories?

All responding to his platform, of course. Getting what is rightfully his: the Howard Hughes estate… a fact that is obscured in the tangle web of history and a conspiracy cover-up that takes us from the assassination of Robert Kennedy and the Watergate break-in right on down.

Too bad Kenneth Starr ended up on the subject of Clinton’s bj, because if he had tackled this problem, we might actually know the real dirt on Clinton.

But that’s all politics: everyone knows the real scandals are bi-partisan (often above-partisan) in nature. Starr wouldn’t have been able to keep the dirt from flying off George Herbert Walker Bush.