Friday, August 20, 2004

Skankadank Michelle Malkin made the absurd suggestion on Hardball that Kerry shot himself intentionally in Vietnam in order to get a medal. Then Chris Matthews laid the smack down on the skankadank. A beautiful video, courtesy of ODub. Postscript: Nice photo. Ah, Kabuki theater, anyone? [Thanks to EA for my new favorite term.] 2:20:31 AM    comment [] Red Card for Bush Campaign The Bush campaign has been using the presence of Iraq and Afghanistan in the Olympics in campaign advertising. President Bush has been especially excited about the success of the Iraqi men's soccer team: At a speech in Beaverton, Ore., last Friday, Bush attached himself to the Iraqi soccer team after its opening-game upset of Portugal. "The image of the Iraqi soccer team playing in this Olympics, it's fantastic, isn't it?" Bush said. "It wouldn't have been free if the United States had not acted." [Someone should politely inform him that the Iraqis did compete in previous Olympics, albeit under the tyrannical watch of Uday Hussein.] However, it seems the Iraqi National Team does not appreciate being used as props in Bush's reelection bid. Some quotes: Midfielder Salih Sadir of Najaf: ""Iraq as a team does not want Mr. Bush to use us for the presidential campaign. He can find another way to advertise himself ... I want the violence and the war to go away from the city. We don't wish for the presence of Americans in our country. We want them to go away." Midfielder Ahmed Manajid from Fallujah (Ahmed lost his cousin, a member of the insurgency): "How will he meet his god having slaughtered so many men and women? He has committed so many crimes. ... I want to defend my home. If a stranger invades America and the people resist, does that mean they are terrorists? Everyone [in Fallujah] has been labeled a terrorist. These are all lies. Fallujah people are some of the best people in Iraq." Coach Adnan Hamad: "My problems are not with the American people. They are with what America has done in Iraq: destroy everything. The American army has killed so many people in Iraq. What is freedom when I go to the [national] stadium and there are shootings on the road? ... The war is not secure. Many people hate America now. The Americans have lost many people around the world -- and that is what is happening in America also." Perhaps some time in Abu Ghraib will teach them to be more grateful. [Thanks to Smythe's World, CH and EA] 2:02:46 AM    comment [] RnR Our beloved president has spent 20% of his first term at his Prairie Chapel ranch in Crawford, TX, and over 20% at Camp David and Kennebunkport. Yes, that means he has spent over 40% of his term away from the White House, in vacation spots. But the White House doesn't want us to draw the wrong conclusion from these facts: The White House points out that even at his ranch, the president receives a daily national security briefing - and can confer with top aides back at the White House by way of a secure video hookup. Yes, it's hardly vacation, because he's only a video hookup away. And those pesky national security briefings ... like the one he received August 6th 2001, entitled "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in the United States." He studied that carefully in the morning ... and then he played golf. As Mel Brooks once said, "It's good to be da king." Postscript: He has also held about as many "Ask the President" hand-jobs as solo news conferences. 1:06:37 AM    comment []

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