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Monthly Archives: October 2004
Global testers test the American political waters
Clifford May at the NRO corner says that the New York Times story on the missing explosives was ginned up by the IAEA to undermine the administration, which wants to deny IAEA head, the anti-American Mohammed El Baradei, a second term. May relies on this message from an unamed government source: The Iraqi explosives story is a fraud. These weapons were not there when US troops went to this site »
President Bush’s closing argument
Fox News has posted the transcript of Sean Hannity’s interview with President Bush. Hannity asked the president whether “if John Kerry were president would he make this country more vulnerable and more susceptible to terror attacks?” This, of course, is the issue that Dick Cheney addressed to the consternation of the Democrats in September. Bush’s answer, a more fully-developed and carefully-worded version of Cheney’s, provides the basis for a pretty »
The spirit of Thomas Lipscomb
Thomas Lipscomb is an old Timesman who puts his former employer to shame. Lipscomb’s latest report is of interest as always. Today the New York Sun carries Lipscomb’s “Hanoi approved of role played by anti-war vets.” »
The spirit of Walter Duranty
Yesterday’s big New York Times page-one takedown of President Bush was “Huge cache of explosives vanished from site in Iraq.” Today the Times reports “Iraq explosive become issue in campaign.” On day one the Times publishes the story; on day two the Times notes the injection of the issue raised by the story into the campaign. This is how it works in the great tradition of the New York Times. »
History in the making
St. Cloud, Minnesota is in the heart of Gopher state Bush country, 60 miles west of the Twin Cities. It is also the home of St. Cloud State University, a zany outpost of political correctness. Correspondent Gary Gross writes from St. Cloud: I just stopped at St. Cloud’s Bush-Cheney ’04 headquarters and was startled to find out that their office had handed out 20,000-plus BC ’04 yardsigns to greater St. »
Israel too is about to make a fateful decision
The Israeli Knesset will vote today on whether to accept Prime Minister Sharon’s plan to withdraw unilaterally from the Gaza Strip and the northern West Bank. The issue is an agonizingly difficult one (Sharon has called his decision the most difficult of his life) and the debate could hardly fail to be acriminious. The editors of the Jerusalem Post, who have relunctantly endorsed Sharon’s plan, issue a plea that the »
Lesson learned
Caroline Glick in the Jerusalem Post recalls “one of the most egregious failures in US military history” — the murder by Hezbollah terrorists of 241 marines in the barracks at the Beirut airport on October 23, 1983. Glick is hardly one to look at the world through rose colored glasses. However, she finds it “hard not to be amazed by the radical transformation in thinking that the US military has »
Back to the future?
As Rocket Man has noted, with eight days left until the election we are in essentially the same place as at the corresponding time four years ago, with George W. Bush holding slight lead of maybe three percentage points over his Democratic rival. We know that four years ago the Democrat ran ahead of his poll numbers (although not much ahead if one takes into account the margin of error), »
A case study
Patty Wetterling is the mother of Jacob Wetterling, who was kidnapped in 1989 at age 11. While bicycling home from a convenience store with his younger brother and a friend, Jacob was abducted by a masked man wielding a gun. This past weekend Jacob’s family observed the fifteenth anniversary of his disappearance. As indicated by this story from Friday’s St. Cloud Times, state law enforcement authorities have continued to hold »
Are there any issues left
about which John Kerry has not spoken with a forked tongue? Arthur Chrenkoff, the Australian blogger originally from Poland, recalls a time when Kerry viewed coalition partners such as Australia and Poland as “some trumped-up, so-called coalition of the bribed, the coerced, the bought and the extorted.” Now, however, Senator Nuance is complaining, in effect, that we have not bribed Poland sufficiently. Chrenkoff provides the following translation of statements made »
Bush continues to lead in Gallup Poll
The latest Gallup Poll has President Bush up by 51-46 among likely voters. Among registered voters, the Bush lead is 49-47, which is within the margin of error. 51 percent of those surveyed approve of the president’s job performance. 46 percent disapprove. »
Another reason why I’m happy I cancelled my subscription
I usually leave newspaper “corrections” to Rocket Man, but this is one I cannot pass up from the October 22 edition of the Washington Post: In the Oct. 17 Sunday Source, the “Gatherings” story described a Republican barbecue held to watch a presidential debate. The item reported “the possibly unprecedented occurrence of a young woman in a cowboy hat pretending to make out with a poster of Dick Cheney.” The »
A very hot seat
The Ohio-based blog No Left Turns has a good report on a piece in the Cleveland Plain Dealer about Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell. Blackwell, a Republican and an African-American, could become a key figure in the upcoming election, the next Catherine Harris, as the Democrats would have it. If so, he seems up to it. We hope, however, that it doesn’t come to that, especially in view of »
Blogtruth of the day
Roger L. Simon writes us regarding John’s bogus UN journey: I notice some people are disappointed that this article isn’t BIGGER. Actually, I think it is very big because it shows the most bizarre capacity to lie about obvious verifiable facts in the midst of a presidential debate, of all things. Don’t miss Roger’s “Christmas in Cambodia all over again.” See also Michelle Malkin and the links she provides in »
John’s bogus (UN) journey
The Washington Times has posted Joel Mowbray’s story that Rocket Man teased here yesterday: “Security Council members deny meeting Kerry.” »
This doesn’t bode well for Kerry
David Broder, the Washington Post’s moderately liberal columnist, refers to John Kerry as “a man whose habits of mind and of action are far removed from the challenges of the White House.” Actually, Kerry has done a fairly effective job lately of disguising many of his weaknesses. Among them, according to Broder, are “a tendency to overstudy issues, procrastinate, and avoid hard choices; a willingness to be swayed by conflicting »
Happy birthday Wayne
Going into today’s English Premier League football match against Manchester United, Arsenal had a 49-game unbeaten streak, the longest in English soccer history. But that streak itself is now history, as Man U defeated the Gunners 2-0. The difference was Wayne Rooney, formerly of my beloved Everton. Rooney won a penalty kick to set up United’s first goal and then scored the second himself. Today was the boy wonder’s 19th »
