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Friday, September 10, 2004
What Do You Know?
Previously released documents in Bush's National Guard military records also contain superscript on the "th."
Seems like it may be time for Bush to address this issue. Or does he want to wait until the story linking his failure to perform with cocaine use comes out, as apparently it is on the verge of doing.
Stunning New Document About Bush's National Guard Service
This recently discovered document makes some pretty unbelievable statements about a young George Bush. Be sure to check it out.
This Speaks for Itself
Per Nedra Pickler, of the Associated Press:
Indicators measure the nation's unemployment rate, consumer spending and
other economic milestones, but Vice President Dick Cheney says it misses the
hundreds of thousands who make money selling on eBay.
"That's a source that didn't even exist 10 years ago," Cheney told an
audience in Cincinnati on Thursday. "Four hundred thousand people make some
money trading on eBay."
You simply cannot make up something as good as this. John Edwards responded perfectly:
Democratic vice presidential candidate John Edwards responded that Cheney's
comments show how "out of touch" he and President Bush are with the economy.
"If we only included bake sales and how much money kids make at
lemonade stands, this economy would really be cooking," Edwards said in a
statement.
Wednesday, September 08, 2004
The Perfect Storm?
New (or the same old unanswered) questions are being raised about Bush's National Guard duty.
The man who pulled the strings to get Bush into the Texas National Guard is coming forward on 60 Minutes with his story on how he did it and how he is "ashamed."
Kitty Kelley's book on the Bush family is coming out and alleging that Bush did cocaine at Camp David during his father's presidency (contradicting Bush's statements in 1999 that he could have passed a drug test going back to 1978), and also supposedly dicussing the fact that Bush paid for an abortion for a girlfriend in 1971 (when abortion was still illegal in Texas pre-Roe). F-911 fans will remember the name James Bath -- from what I hear, Bath helped to arrange for the abortion.
(Personally, if I was in the media I'd want to know if Bush's 1972 community service was "court ordered," as I've heard it was part of a deal arranged by Dad so that Bush wouldn't have to do time for cocaine possession)
I can only presume that the media will do just as thorough a job of investigating and airing these charges as they did the Swift Boaters.
Tuesday, September 07, 2004
September 10th is Bush's Too
On a business trip last week I picked up a copy of the 9/11 Commission Report and read a lot of it on the plane back home. I've got some specific thoughts that I will detail in another post, but I've just come across an excellent review of the Report by Elizabeth Drew in the New York Review of Books that I highly recommend.
Drew very ably addresses the very clear implication in the unanimous report that Cheney decided on his own, without talking to Bush, to give the order to shoot down planes, and then lied to the Commission about when he spoke to Bush about this order. She also notes something that I picked up on as well in the Report concerning Bush at the Florida school that morning:
Subtly but damningly, the report makes it clear that after Bush left the
classroom, "the focus was on the President's statement to the nation"—his
"message"—rather than on taking charge of the nation's response to the attacks.
I'll write more on this topic soon, but as Richard Cohen wrote months ago, if Bush wants to own September 11, as he made clear at his convention he intends to do, then he's got to also take ownership of September 10 as well.
