Wednesday, September 01, 2004

Dick Cheney addresses the delegates at the Republican National Convention tonight in New York City.  (Associated Press and Reuters photos) Night Three of the Living Dead: Stiff Dick I just listened to Vice President Halliburton's speech at the Republican National Convention. What a cold man. No wonder he needs a pacemaker -- his Grinch-sized heart can't pump that ice water without help. In his speech Vice President Halliburton slandered and slimed our next president, John Kerry, expertly. He utterly failed, however, to outline a positive, constructive course for the United States for the next four years. He offered no vision whatsoever. He only did what the Bush regime has been doing for the past three years: Scream War! Terror! War! Terror! Terror! Terror! This is not just a White House regime, but a political party, that has run out of ideas. Clearly, the Bush regime thinks that it can wave the bloody shirt of 9/11 for another four years, that it owes the American people no more leadership than that. Its contempt for the American people is apparent.  Although the Republican Party is stuck on 9/11, most Americans have moved on. They haven't forgotten Sept. 11, 2001, but they want to go forward, not remain stuck in the past or just remain stuck, which is what another four years of BushCheneyCorp running the show would look like: More bogus terrorist alerts meant to distract the American people from their nation's serious problems, such as increasing poverty, schoolchildren who are failing to learn, woefully inadequate healthcare and unchecked environmental degradation. Most Americans have at least a dull sense of this -- that we are rotting from within while our "leaders" try to keep our attention perpetually focused without -- which is why I think that BushCheneyCorp is toast on Nov. 2. 8:47:09 PM    Discuss amongst yourselves []

Go to hell, Zell! "Democrat" Zell Miller is droning on at the Republican National Convention as I type this sentence. I wrote about Miller on May 15. Here is a repost:   Somehow I doubt that "Democratic" Georgia Sen. Zell "Benedict Arnold" Miller would really welcome my thoughts and suggestions... And I hope to God that he doesn't really "represent all Georgians." Memo to Zell Miller: You have my full permission to die anytime now! Yeah, I know that that's not "nice" and we liberals are "supposed" to be "nice." Fuck that shit. No more Mr. (Ms.?) Nice Gay. (In case you hadn't already noticed.) The Associated Press reports today: COLUMBUS, Ga. -- Sen. Zell Miller, the Bush campaign's most famous Democratic attack dog, ripped into John Kerry [today] as an "out-of-touch, ultraliberal from Taxachusetts" whose foreign and domestic policies would seriously weaken the country. Miller, the lone Democratic senator publicly backing Bush, made the remarks in a Bush-Cheney grassroots event during the state Republican convention, where he was greeted as a hero. "I'm afraid that my old Democratic 'ties that bind' have become unraveled," he said in a speech that evoked sustained applause, laughter and two standing ovations. Kerry spokesman Anthony Coley dismissed the attack as mudslinging by Miller for a president who "wants this race to be decided by the politics of fear and smear." Coley noted that Miller seemed happy enough with Kerry in 2001 when he hailed him before a Georgia Democratic party gathering as "an authentic" American hero who had worked to strengthen the military. Miller said Kerry's handlers were trying to soften the Democratic candidate's image and depict him as an average guy. "Look, John Kerry couldn't find Main Street with both hands," he said. "You can't make a chicken swim and you can't make John Kerry anything but an out-of-touch ultraliberal from Taxachusetts." The word "turncoat" was being used [today] by some of Miller's fellow Georgia Democrats. "For him to turn a blind eye to the fact that we're no more secure under George W. Bush, that we're in a morass in Iraq and that he hasn't told the truth to us about weapons of mass destruction makes you wonder what country he (Miller) is looking at," said state Sen. Vincent Fort of Atlanta. In his speech, Miller insisted the nation was more secure with Bush in the White House. "With John Kerry on national security, it's vacillate, retreat and turn over to the U.N.," he said. "With John Kerry on domestic policy, it's tax, spend and redistribute income." He said Kerry deserves praise for his war record in Vietnam but declared his Senate voting record on national defense "shameful," saying Kerry voted "against every single major weapons system that won the Cold War." "The man now wants to be the commander in chief of U.S. armed forces? U.S. forces armed with what, spitballs?" Miller, a lifelong Democrat, was Georgia's governor from 1991 through 1998 and was lieutenant governor for 16 years before that. In 2000, Democratic Gov. Roy Barnes chose him to succeed the late Sen. Paul Coverdell, a Republican. Miller was a strong, early supporter of Democratic presidential candidate Bill Clinton back in 1992. But he has ruffled the feathers of Democratic colleagues since joining the Senate, siding with Republicans on virtually every key issue and writing a best-selling book in which he accuses his party of being out of touch with Southern voters. The speech [today] was a hit with Georgia Republicans. "That was the greatest speech he's ever made," said convention delegate Ernest Dyal of McRae. "He could get re-elected today." Miller, who will be 73 next year, is not seeking re-election. Miller has the constitutional right to be a dumbfuck. But there is a party for dumbfucks: the Republican Party. Miller makes all of the same bullshit charges against Kerry that the Republicans do. Yes, the Republicans won't raise our taxes -- they'll just saddle us with huge fucking federal budget deficits. "Play now, pay later" is their idea of "leadership." They get political Brownie points in the short term by being foaming-at-the-mouth anti-taxation, and the working, tax-paying person feels the pain in the long term. And it's public record that the military spending that John Kerry has opposed has been wasteful military spending that even many Republican lawmakers -- and even Dick Cheney, when he was King Bush I's secretary of defense -- opposed.   Miller should get his facts straight. Kerry's defense plan is not the use of "spitballs." It is the use of slingshots.  But seriously, Kerry will be as strong or stronger on defense as was Bill Clinton. (We had no colossal [that is, 9/11-level] terrorist attacks on Bill Clinton's watch, did we? Clinton would have responded to a presidential daily briefing titled, "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S." -- even if he were on vacation.) But, unlike "President" Bush -- who was able to pussy out of Vietnam because he comes from old, white money (the traitorous Bush clan did business with the Nazis back in the day, just as the Bush clan more recently has done business with the bin Laden family -- look this stuff up if you don't believe it) -- Kerry knows from personal experience that war is hell, and so he won't put our young people in harm's way unless it's for a very good reason. (FYI: Dick Cheney's Halliburton's war profiteering is not a good reason to go to war.) If Miller wants to be a Republican, why doesn't he join the Republican Party? Why does he remain in the Democratic Party but speak at Republican conventions and write Democratic Party-bashing diatribe? Oh, yeah: Because if he officially became a Republican, he'd be just another Republican spewing forth the venomous Republican line. He can't get special attention from his fellow Democrats by being a real Democrat, so he gets special attention from the Republicans by calling himself a Democrat but acting like a Republican. Better to reign in hell than to serve in heaven, right? Clearly, Miller is just trying to get all of the attention he can while he's still in office. While his country falls apart, he's making it all about himself -- and aligning himself with the party that is driving this nation into the ground. The best thing you can say about people like Miller is that they will die someday, and it will be a great day when Miller finally kicks off and goes to hell, like it was when Strom Thurmond finally dropped dead and went to hell. Like the rest of the morons who have been pontificating about terrorism and national security at the Republican National Convention, Miller (who's still ranting and raving as I type this sentence) won't acknowledge that the Bush regime attacked Iraq without provocation and that the weapons of mass destruction that the Bush regime gave the American people and the world as its premise for its invasion and occupation of Iraq apparently never existed. Like the rest of the morons who have been pontificating about terrorism and national security at the Republican National Convention, Miller is perfectly fine with not only blurring, but obliterating, the clear line between al-Qaeda, the group that perpetrated the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and Iraq, which had absolutely nothing to do with 9/11 that anyone has been able to demonstrate. I have had no problem with the United States going after al-Qaeda, the perpetrators of 9/11. However, the Bush regime morphed al-Qaeda, the true threat to the United States, into a bogus "threat" posed by Saddam Hussein and Iraq (15 of the 19 9/11 hijackers were from Saudi Arabia and not one of them was from Iraq). As a result of the Bush regime's lie about the true threat to the United States, thousands of innocent Iraqis and almost 1,000 American military personnel have been killed. (What do al-Qaeda and the Bush regime have in common? Both have killed thousands of innocent people without thinking twice about it. Neither have respect for innocent human life and both are driven by radical ideologies.) The true threat to the United States, al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden -- remember him? -- remains at large, and because the Bush regime has failed to capture him, bin Laden's name has not and will not be uttered at the Republican National Convention because the fact that he remains on the loose is one of the Bush regime's many serious failures. That the Bush regime and its supporters will not even utter the name of the United States' No. 1 enemy, Osama bin Laden, demonstrates that the Bush regime is utterly unfit to protect the United States.  8:08:58 PM    Discuss amongst yourselves []

The Stepford Wife and Hitler: The Sequel pontificate during Night Two of the Living Dead yesterday in New York City. (Associated Press and Reuters photos) Night Two of the Living Dead I'll admit it. After a hard day at work, about the last thing I want to do is watch Laura Bush and Ahhhnuld Schwarzenegger speak at the Republican National Convention. So I didn't. If Al Gore was the inspiration for Love Story (he was, actually, at least partially), then Laura Bush was the inspiration for The Stepford Wives. What's my problem with Laura? First of all, she married George W. That is enough, but secondly, she has that deer-caught-in-headlights thing going on that many Republicans and evangelical "Christians," including Dan Quayle, Pat Robertson, Ralph Reed and "President" Dumbfuck, do. Are these human beings or perhaps hostile extraterrestrials infiltrating the highest levels of our society that just don't have human behavior and mannerisms perfected yet? Shit, I'll vote for John Kerry just to get Teresa Heinz Kerry as First Lady. You gotta love the fact that there's always the chance that Teresa might let slip a four-letter word in front of a live television camera, versus the fact that about all you'll ever hear out of Laura Bush's mouth is what a wonderful fucking human being her lying, thieving, murderous husband is. Ahhhnuld. Ahhhnuld supports a constitutional amendment to allow foreign-born people to run for president. This has nothing -- nothing -- to do, he says, with the fact that he was born in Austria, Adolf Hitler's home country. Speaking of Hitler, think a President Schwarzenegger would be a good thing? Watch the documentary "Pumping Iron" on DVD and listen to a 28-year-old Ahhhnuld talk about how much he admires dictators, bask in his incredible ego and his naked, bold-faced duplicity, and you'll realize that we need to bring this neo-Nazi motherfucker down (legally and democratically, of course) before he has a shot at the presidency. Even if the facts that Schwarzenegger's father was a Nazi Brown Shirt and that Ahhhnuld was buddies with Nazi war criminal Kurt Waldheim don't sway you, statements he's made in the past about admiring dictators (including, reportedly, Hitler), and the blatant Hitleresque imagery of Schwarzenegger during the second night of the Republican Nazi -- er, National -- Convention should make you very, very concerned that so many Germans -- er, Americans -- think that Adolf -- er, Ahhhnuld -- is a righteous dude. 6:12:11 AM    Discuss amongst yourselves []