Condoleeza Rice is the perfect choice for Secretary of State only if you believe that the highest post in the Cabinet should be occupied by a jellyfish. Colin Powell was weak when the time came to stand up for his principles. But at least he had some beliefs to abandon, and a rudimentary backbone to support them. Rice will never be accused of being too forthright in telling the boss what she thinks, because she will never tell him anything in the first place. She will report to the Oval Office each morning and be told what the President believes, which she will then dutifully announce to the media as her own “policy” for the State Department of the United States.

Those who have been outraged to hear British Prime Minister Tony Blair described as “Bush’s Poodle” should be overjoyed at the Rice appointment. Blair is about to get a promotion. Compared to Condoleeza Rice, Tony Blair is Bush’s Rottweiler.

His early concession and failure to uphold the promise that he will make every vote count is more proof that John Kerry never tried to win this election.

With the President's horrible record, most would think that it would be easy to defeat him. It should have been. Kerry failed to call the President out on letting special interest groups slander one of his veteran's name.

He did nothing to expose Karl Rove's tactics of homosexual scapegoating and the exlploitation of Christianity that brought so many substance-blind voters to the polls.

He never did the right thing and potray the truth about the Bush Administration, that they are warmongering, agenda-driven criminals that give no validity to reason and compassion. Nope, John Kerry did none of those things.

John Kerry did a horrible job at talking to the good ole' folk in rural Ohio in a manner that they could relate. Instead, he remained robotic and out of touch.

And then, with the presidential race down to 100,000 votes, with voting problems reported in Ohio counties early in the day and a biased Republican pawn presiding over the fate of the state, Kerry

Dear Madam and/or Sir,  

There was one item you did not mention in your article "Twelve Ways Bush is stealing the election".  I am from Ohio and living Overseas.  The FVAP (Federal Assistance Voting Program) which is run by the DoD gave 17 incorrect mailing addresses out of 88 counties.  One of those counties was Franklin County which is one of the largest in the state.   

Here is the FVAP website:  

www.fvap.gov/pubs/vag.html  

Attached is the spreadsheet I made of the counties that have incorrect addresses.  I called every county election board that did not match the address on the Project Vote Smart website to verify their address.  As a volunteer for Overseas Vote, we received emails from hundreds of voters from Ohio who did not get registered properly.  The number could be in the thousands since many Ohioans living overseas do not know who to contact.  

Nancy Reagan coined the phrase, “Just Say No”, as an expression of what she felt would be an effective means to fight illegal drug use in this country. If we as a nation simply refused to either purchase or use these drugs, despite temptation and ready availability, then the drug problem would cease to exist. The supply of drugs in the world would not matter, as there would be no demand. As a drug prevention strategy, “Just Say No” failed miserably.

Our country is now addicted to preemptive war. Judging from election totals, Bush now does, just barely mind you, have the “political capital” to do whatever he wants, including the invasion of any country he wishes to conquer and occupy. We who believe the war in Iraq is morally wrong, and that coming conflicts in Syria, Iran and North Korea will be equally indefensible, must do something about it. 

Columbus, Ohio---Hour after hour the testimonies are the same: angry Ohioans telling of vicious Republican manipulation and de facto intimidation that disenfranchised tens of thousands and probably cost the Democrats the election.

At an African-American church on Saturday and then at the Franklin County Courthouse Monday night, more than 700 people came to testify and witness to tales of the atrocity that was the November 2 election.

Organized by local ad hoc groups, the hearings had a court reporter and a team of lawyers along with other appointed witnesses. At freepress.org we will be making the testimonies available as they're transcribed and organized, and we will present a fuller accounting of the hearings, along with a book that includes the transcripts.

But one thing was instantly and abundantly clear: the Republican Party turned Ohio 2004 into an updated version of the Jim Crow South.

The principle overt method of vote suppression was to short-change inner city precincts of sufficient voting machines to allow a timely balloting. In