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Your Favorite Political Weblogs?
worm eater would like to know: "As the mainstream media is coming under closer scrutiny from the 'blogosphere,' and is having to actually respond to these journalists in pajamas, I thought I'd ask Slashdot: what are your favorite political blogs? Lately I've been reading Talking Points Memo, a liberal weblog by Joshua Micah Marshall, and a blog by Andrew Sullivan, a conservative writer. Where do you go when you want to see the mainstream media dissected and poked at?"
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Who do I have to blackmail to get some representation around here!?!?!?!?
"...the convicted drunk drivers' outright lies..."
Bush and Cheney are the most arrested president and vice president in history. George W. Bush was arrested once for the crime of DUI and Dick Cheney twice:
George W. Bush DUI, 1st record of arrest
George W. Bush DUI, 2nd record of arrest
George W. Bush was arrested 2 other times in his life, also.
Dick Cheney DUI, record of 1st arrest
Dick Cheney DUI, record of 2nd arrest
DUI means "Driving Under the Influence" of alcohol. A DUI is a conviction for a very serious crime, a crime that endangers everyone on the road, a crime that often kills people. A DUI conviction means that the driver felt such a strong need to be drunk that he or she was willing to take a chance of murder.
According to his wife Laura Bush and George W. Bush himself, she threatened to leave him because of his drinking.
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Bush: Spending money the U.S. doesn't have to make himself look good.
Barnes a democrat says he got Bush into the guard, however, as I'm sure you know, his story has changed over the years. His daughter says that he is lying to promote his new book. He himself never claimed that a Bush family member asked him to do it. I see no wrongdoing here.
I'll trust your sources on the national guard stuff--don't have time ATM to fully research.
Bush has had a long-established pattern of not taking responsibility for his actions.
Yes, when he was young. However we see a marked change in Bush years ago. It takes a signifigant amount of willpower to stop drinking alcohol completely the way Bush did after being, by all accounts, a virtual alcoholic. I won't excuse any of Bush's youth--he did many bad things..but I'm happy with the Bush of today.
That's a scary thought. Anything a politician mentions is fair game for lies? As the New York Times concluded, "on close examination, the accounts of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth' prove to be riddled with inconsistencies. In many cases, material offered as proof by these veterans is undercut by official Navy records and the men's own statements."
I made no comment on the Swift Boat Vet's case. They were heavily attacked by the media in fact (possibly not Fox News). I simply said that Kerry made Vietnam an issue...if he had campaigned on his beliefs, on his senate career etc, the Swift Vets would have had no power. I blame Kerry for making this race ridiculously about 30 years ago.
Yes, pretenses he used are NOW shown to be false, but who cares? CIA reports, british intelligence, pentagon sources, etc believed Iraq was a threat and had WMD's.
Does anyone else find it distasteful when a draft dodger calls into question the medals of a war hero?
That makes you a troll, tried and true.
Ben Barnes, then Lt. Governor of Texas, admitted he got Bush into the National Guard
Ummm, except Bush joined the National Guard in May 1968, and Barnes wasn't Lt. Governor until 1969. Perhaps the fact that Barnes is a disgraced Democratic politician and major Kerry fundraiser has something to do with his confusion about dates?
Q: What does the "B." in Benoit B. Mandelbrot stand for? A: Benoit B. Mandelbrot
"Yes, pretenses he used are NOW shown to be false, but who cares? CIA reports, british intelligence, pentagon sources, etc believed Iraq was a threat and had WMD's."
There were lots of people who did not believe that. Bush didn't hear them when they talked. These people included the actual inspectors on the ground BTW.
Even if the CIA and the british intelligence did believe it (I highly doubt that, they wanted to invade iraq and therefore made that shit up) there were better ways to deal with that then to kill tens of thousands of people and install a CIA agent as your puppet dictator.
evil is as evil does