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  • The Bush Bulge, the Grossly Incompetent Media and the Complicit Kerry Campaign
    23 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Margaret Whitman
    This is what I don’t understand. Doesn’t cheating in a debate warrant an investigation? Shouldn’t we be concerned that president might not be able to speak for himself? We have all seen the obvious bulge in Bush’s jacket at the debates by now and have heard the silly excuses from the white house and Bush campaign. To see Bush’s actions in the first debate only confirm what everyone was already thinking. The man is listening to someone and repeating afterward. No (…)

  • Ben Franklin Weighs In On George W. Bush
    23 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Jack Walters In the annals of sales and salesmen, perhaps the most effective sales closing technique ever devised is the “Ben Franklin” close, also known as the “Balance Sheet” close. Used by salesman for decades, the essence of this sales technique is that it brings the prospect to a buying decision. By way of history, here’s how it all started: Old Ben advised an English scientist friend how to make an important personal choice his friend otherwise couldn’t seem to (…)

  • REALITY CHECK : John Kerry’s Iraq attack
    12 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by PHILIP GOUREVITCH
    Despite a pre-debate “memorandum of understanding” between the Bush campaign and the Kerry campaign that there would be no televised “cutaways” or reaction shots, more than sixty-two million Americans watched George W. Bush appear to come unglued while hearing, for the first time, John Kerry’s forceful voice of opposition.
    Bush’s face betrayed him on the very first cutaway. He had insisted that the focus of his initial encounter with Kerry, in Coral Gables, Florida, (…)

  • It Was a Rout
    5 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By William Rivers Pitt
    "Down goes Frazier! Down goes Frazier! Down goes Frazier!" Howard Cosell
    There was a President on that stage in Florida on Thursday night, and his name was not George.
    This was supposed to be the debate that played to the strengths of Bush and his administration. Foreign policy in general and the protection of the United States from terrorism in particular, according to all the polls and every talking head within earshot, are the areas where George (…)

  • Retreat Into a Substitute Reality
    4 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Touching on Bush’s Ambivalent Relations with His Father, Kerry Exposed His Delusions about Iraq
    by Sidney Blumenthal
    After months of flawless execution in a well-orchestrated campaign, President Bush had to stand alone in an unpredictable debate. He had traveled the country, appearing before adoring pre-selected crowds, delivered a carefully crafted acceptance speech before his convention, and approved tens of millions of dollars in TV commercials to belittle his opponent. In the (…)

  • Kucinich Calls for Open Hearings on Iraq Intelligence- Before the Election
    4 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Mounting evidence points to Iraq as a collosal failure with little hope for improvement. Dennis Kucinich has called for the House Subcommittee to hold hearings in open session to investigate the lies before the war, and those affecting current policies in iraq.
    Make a difference- Write one email and have it faxed to the entire subcommittee. Demand accountability. Click Read More and Email them now, it only takes a second to contact 6 congresspeople today.
    Kucinich Calls for Open Hearings (…)

  • More Troops to Iraq ...After the Election
    1 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By RAY McGOVERN
    Former CIA Analyst
    It’s not an "if." It’s a "when." Pentagon officials have indicated that they plan to send as many as 15,000 additional troops during the first four months of 2005, and the President George W. Bush continues to insist "we will stay the course" until Iraq is stabilized. (I do wish his advisers would provide a different vocabulary so that those of us steeped in the mistakes regarding Vietnam could be spared painful flashbacks.)
    Where will the additional (…)

  • Lots More Troops To Iraq... After the Election
    30 September 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Lots More Troops To Iraq... After the Election by Ray McGovern
    It’s not an “if.” It’s a “when.” Pentagon officials have indicated that they plan to send as many as 15,000 additional troops during the first four months of 2005, and the President George W. Bush continues to insist “we will stay the course” until Iraq is stabilized. (I do wish his advisers would provide a different vocabulary so that those of us steeped in the mistakes regarding Vietnam could be spared painful flashbacks.) (…)

  • Top Bush officials clash over Iraq election
    26 September 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Vicki Allen
    WASHINGTON - Iraq’s elections should be nationwide, a top Bush administration official has said, clashing publicly with Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s suggestion that voting might not take place in the most violent areas.
    Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage said the elections scheduled for January will not be perfect, but they should encompass the entire country.
    Rumsfeld also appeared to back away from his outspoken remarks on Thursday that while the (…)

  • Kerry and Progressive Party Building
    23 September 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Ted Glick
    Peter Camejo was the first one I heard put it out, back in April: "Kerry will do what Bush wants to do better." In other words, Kerry and the Democrats are the greater evil, not the Republicans which, followed to its logical conclusion, means that Camejo hopes that Bush/Cheney will win re-election.
    Since that time I’ve heard and seen others put forward this same point of view. There’s not a lot of them on the Left but they’re out there. The Counterpunch website seems to be a (…)