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Monday, December 15, 2003 |
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Day Seventy-Six. The long-neglected food report goes front and center in this entry. It’s my attempt to make it up to it for neglecting it. Today, there was: three iced soy lattes; yogurt (the ol’ Brown Cow cream top — that I am now quite adept at peeling off to save for last); Swedish meatballs Lean Cuisine; dried apricots; fake Cheerios with soy milk; two pieces of turkey jerky; four popsicles; water. Yesterday, there was: three iced soy lattes; yogurt; a plain soft pretzel; a small Greek salad; some gyros meat; two pieces of pita; some tzatziki sauce (that yogurt stuff that you put on your gyros meat); water. Is it just me, or is Joe Lieberman cleaving ever more toward the right? Is this his attempt to become the "anti-Dean" candidate? Whatever it is, it’s unbecoming. Funny though, how all these guys — Lieberman, Kerry, Gephardt — can’t stop talking about Dean. I guess we must be doing something right. In any case, I’m watching Lieberman on Hardball and the crowd seems…well, not excited by him. And Chris Matthews is hammering him. I am in the process of compiling documentation to support the following truths, so I can defend them to a guy at work who is a Bush supporter and pretty conservative: (1) no connection between Saddam Hussein and 9/11; (2) the Bush administration knew Iraq had no WMDs/was not an imminent threat (3) the enrichment of Bush cronies, i.e., Halliburton; (4) the deficit being a result of Bush's tax cuts; and (5) Clinton's furnishing of terror intelligence to Bush during the transition, who then ignored it. When I’m done, I will keep it all archived for future reference. There are plenty of people who will support Bush no matter what and won’t believe anything bad about him, but there are also lots of people who just don’t have the facts and believe bad information. Those are the people I want documentation for. People need to realize just how bad a president Bush is. Like, the worst in 100 years. Dean came out with a great new foreign policy speech today. He delivered the speech O.K., considering he had not delivered it before and had no teleprompter, but what was really impressive was how he fielded questions from the audience afterward. Anyone who thinks he doesn’t know his world affairs and doesn’t have a firm grasp of foreign policy issues is sorely mistaken. Read the speech here. I don’t know if C-Span will re-run it again (it’s on right now), but if they do, it’s worth watching. A mysterious organization called "Americans for Jobs, Healthcare, and Progressive Values" ran an attack ad on Howard Dean. Here's what we now know about it. You know, I talk about Howard Dean to people at least several times a day now. I wear one of my three Dean T-shirts, two Dean sweatshirts, Dean jacket, Dean button, or Dean donkey pin pretty much everywhere I go, and often that’s what starts the conversations. People are interested in him; people want to know where I got my Dean gear; people want to talk about the need to unseat Bush. There’s a lot of buzz out there for Howard Dean, even in Texas! 11:04:10 PM  comment []
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