Tape of candidate Bush joking around with a camera crew before an interview. CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE TAPE!!!
Sunday, October 31, 2004
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Tape of candidate Bush joking around with a camera crew before an interview. CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE TAPE!!!
Friday, October 29, 2004Cut and Paste Troop Support4 comments on this post
INDIANOLA, Iowa - President Bush's campaign acknowledged Thursday that it had doctored a photograph used in a television commercial and said the ad will be re-edited and reshipped to TV stations. The photo of Bush addressing a group of soldiers was edited to remove both the president and the podium where he was standing. A group of soldiers in the crowd was electronically copied to fill in the space, aides say. (click here for the full story) Thanks Bird.
Thursday, October 28, 2004Wednesday, October 27, 2004Tuesday, October 26, 2004Missing Weapons Gate1 comments on this post
A 1996 photograph of a bunker where high-density explosives were stored at Al Qaqaa, an Iraqi military facility south of Baghdad. - New York Times 10/25/04
Republicans are now blaming our troops in the field instead of taking responsibility for not letting the commanders know what to look for. I guess this is how this administration supports our troops... hang them out to dry. From the October 28 edition of NBC's Today: Rudy GIULIANI: The president was cautious. The president was prudent. The president did what a commander in chief should do. And no matter how much you try to blame it on the president, the actual responsibility for it really would be for the troops that were there. Did they search carefully enough? Didn't they search carefully enough? Click here to watch the tape: - links from Media Matters.org Quicktime Windows Media Here is more evidence the weapons were there: Video tape from April 18, 2003 of "During that trip, members of the 101st Airborne Division showed the 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS news crew bunker after bunker of material labelled "explosives." Usually it took just the snap of a bolt cutter to get into the bunkers and see the material identified by the 101st as detonation cords." (CLICK HERE FOR THE TAPE)
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Votergasm is organizing the hosting area election night parties. Click here to search your area.
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Taken from the South-Florida Sun-Sentinel and Drudge
WEST PALM BEACH – An 18-year-old Marine recruit remained in jail on Wednesday, charged with threatening to stab his girlfriend over her choice for president, news partner NewsChannel 5 reported in its noon broadcast. The enlistee, Steven Scott Soper, of Lake Worth, became enraged Tuesday night when his 18-year-old girlfriend said she was leaving him -- and voting for John Kerry for president. Soper, who will enter the Marines as soon as he passes the GED test, solidly supports Bush. He allegedly told girlfriend Stacey Silheira, "You'll never live to see the election." Palm Beach Sheriff's Office deputies called to the home in Lake Worth said they had to use a Taser – an electronic stun gun – to subdue Soper. They described Soper as enraged and said he was holding Silheira captive. He was armed with a screwdriver and threatening to stab her in the neck, they said. When Silheira eventually broke free a deputy fired the Taser, shocking him into submission.Charged with aggravated assault, Soper remains in jail without bond until he undergoes a psychiatric exam, NewsChannel 5 reported. Click here to watch the video news report, click on the right hand side video - worth watching -It is good to see people as passionate as we are about this years election. Monday, October 25, 2004$4 Billion Dollars on the Presidential Race0 comments on this post
President Bush, Sen. John Kerry and independent groups are expected to spend almost $4 billion on this fall's presidential campaign. The scale of this year's political spending, coming on the heels of campaign finance reforms, has surprised almost everyone. - NPR
Click here for an National Public Radio story describing the situation. Bush On His Presidency1 comments on this postI love how Bush says things like this: "The true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now, and you and I will not be around to see it." click here for the full article I wonder what he is refering to?
one more week of this nonsense Thursday, October 21, 2004
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BUSH VS. CHENEY
“It is wrong to try to scare people going into the polls.” - President Bush, 10/20/04 VERSUS "Terrorists May Bomb U.S. Cities.” - Vice President Cheney, 10/19/04 -Center for American Progress Guess Who Said This?9 comments on this post
God had told [?] the war would be messy and a disaster. When he met with Bush in Nashville, before the war Bush did not listen to his advice, [?] said, and believed Saddam Hussein was an evil tyrant who needed to be removed. "President Bush was just sitting there, like, 'I'm on top of the world,' and I warned him about this war," [?] said. "I had deep misgivings about this war, deep misgivings. And I was trying to say, 'Mr. President, you better prepare the American people for casualties.' 'Oh, no, we're not going to have any casualties.' 'Well,' I said, 'it's the way it's going to be.' And so, it was messy. The Lord told me it was going to be, A, a disaster and, B, messy." Hint - The person who said this is a fundamental part of Bush's base Click here for the article and on the comments to find out who said this.
Wednesday, October 20, 2004Tuesday, October 19, 2004Get Out The Vote - Florida0 comments on this post
In 2001, as some of you know, I worked in New Jersey for the Democratic Coordinated Campaign as a Field Coordinator. The work I did was all to GOTV... get out the vote. New Jersey was one of only two states to have a Governor's race in a year where no federal candidates were on the ballot. The result was that we had the top strategists in the country devising the planning of what I did.
Let me preface my comments by saying that I was merely a worker bee and have no insight into the strategy. I can only comment on the implementation and success of the proragm on the ground in Ocean County. I would guess that a very similar program is being used in targeted states around the country and I know it is being used here in Ohio. GOTV: Campaigns have been busy contacting targeted voters. A targeted voter is any voter that has a snowballs chance in hell of voting for your candidate. The resources of the campaign are devoted to earning their vote and getting them to the polls to cast it. The campaigns work early contacting targeted voters out of what is usually a broad list. The early phase of a GOTV effort is when you try and boil down a broad list to a targeted list of people that will vote hopefully for your candidate. The campaigns work hard to build a targeted list. If you are a newly registered voter or independent, you are on the list. If a volunteer knocked on your door and you were either undecided or supporting their candidate, you are on the list. If they talked to you on the phone, you are on the list. If you voted in a Democratic primary in the past 10 years, you may be on the list. There is a variety of criteria used and you get the point. I would fax lists hundreds of pages long at the end of most days to a company in Virginia which took the data our voter contact produced and compiled it into one list. On Election Day the list becomes the holy grail. Each person on the list has already received lots of campaign literature and might have received automated phone messages the night before from say Bill Clinton or Michael J. Fox for the Democrats or Chuck Norris or Jesus for the Republicans. Volunteers are assigned to each precinct in targeted areas where the campaign has a high number of people they want to vote. The volunteer is armed with the list. The polls open at around 7:00 (varies by state) and people begin voting. At around 11:oo am, each polling station will post a list on the wall of those people in that precinct who have voted that day. It does not say how they voted, just that they did vote. The volunteer then crosses off the people who voted from the campaign's list. The volunteer then takes the list of people who have not voted back to the campaign headquarters. At headquarters, volunteers call the house, knock on the door, drive them to vote... ect. Again at like 3:00 the polling station updates the list of those who have voted. The volunteer then strikes the people who voted again and takes that list back to the office. Those people who haven't voted are harassed until the polls close. That in short is how GOTV works (at least for this democrat in NJ). It is all about an organized list and effort to get people to vote. Florida: I know this is long as hell, but there is a point to all of this. This year in Florida, people are allowed to begin voting 14 days before the Election. They basically have two weeks of Election Days. That means the system that I have just described gives both sides a HUGE amount of time to get voters to the polls. Both parties will know which counties are voting in high numbers and which are not. I think that any polling in Florida can be thrown out because it is all about which party has the better ground game. Look for the press to speculate which candidate is doing better in Florida in the next couple weeks based on turnout rather than polling. National Public Radio did an excellent piece that gives a real fair take on the nuts and bolts of the GOTV efforts in Florida. Click here to listen. Monday, October 18, 2004Political Points of Interest6 comments on this post
You MUST WATCH Jon Stewart ripping CNN's Crossfire on their own show to their face. Click here for the video... thanks Chuck.
See the latest swift boat vets disgraceful attack ads that are all over the air waves here in Ohio. Click here to watch. One of my favorite ads on from the ACLU. Click here. Don't forget official Chief Source / Keeler Report items are available at our online store. New items added today. Click here. Statewide Voting Record0 comments on this post
This shows how each Ohio county has voted in the last 10 Presidential Elections. Click on the picture for a larger view. Taken from the Columbus Dispatch.
Saturday, October 16, 2004
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Happy Sweetest Day to all the beautiful babies who visit our site.
Swingers (the movie) Termanology Puppy Dogs and Ice Cream: (adj. or noun) Refers to any topic of safe, meaningless conversation a guy uses when he is nervous around a girl. (e.g., "The money babies wanted to party, but he was all puppy dogs and ice cream.") This is a pretty obscure reference, but I love that movie. So money. Thursday, October 14, 2004Links to important articles3 comments on this post
Carlyle has sought to secure an extraordinary $1 billion fee from the Kuwaiti government, with Bush appointee and family friend Jim Baker's influence as debt envoy to Iraq being used as a crucial lever. See who stands to make a huge amount of money from the war in Iraq. Click here for a very interesting article from The Nation
Bob Taft, George Voinovich and Mike Dewine all oppose Issue 1, the ban on gay marriage in Ohio. Click here for a Toledo Blade article detailing the rift it is causing in Ohio amongst state Republicans. What would happen if there were an electoral-vote tie -- 269 electoral votes each for President Bush and Sen. Kerry? Click here to read an NPR article... very interesting. |