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Four more years?

Wake up America! If you want four more years of George W. Bush (based on his previous four years), here's what you can expect:

Four more years of uncontrolled spending and trillion-dollar-plus deficits.
Four more years of shifting the burden of taxation from multi-millionaires to lower income earners.
Four more years of skyrocketing college tuition.
Four more years of price-gouging by the pharmaceutical and health care industries.
Four more years of raids on the treasury by Halliburton.
Four more years of unprecedented tax cuts for multi-millionaires during time of war.
Four more years of corporate tax loopholes, fraud and unbridled tax evasion.
Four more years of increases in local taxes to make up for federal tax cuts and loss of federal services.
Four more years of ignoring alternative sources of energy that would mitigate our dependence on oil.

Words of Mass Deception

"It's not about the sex, it's about the lying."
"Integrity matters."
"We must restore the dignity of the office."
"Truth is the glue that holds government together." Gerald Ford 1974
"We found the weapons of mass destruction." George W. Bush (5/29/03 television interview)

"Manipulation or deliberate misuse of national security intelligence data, if proven, could be 'a high crime' under the Constitution's impeachment clause. It would also be a violation of federal criminal law, including the broad federal anti-conspiracy statute, which renders it a felony 'to defraud the United States, or any agency thereof in any manner for any purpose." John Dean, former counsel to President Nixon.

"Manipulation or deliberate misuse" of intelligence data, a.k.a. lying, as an excuse to go to war is also murder. In order to undertake something as drastic as war, there must be a justification approaching certainty, since "Whoops! Sorry about that!" is no defense to murder. Spin and lie until your pants ignite and your nose is ten feet long, but unjustified war is ALWAYS murder. It doesn't even matter if WMD are eventually found, for when

Music legend slams Bush campaign over song theft

George Bush may be getting the same kind of legal and musical advice as he gets from his military and environmental strategists.

Amidst a torrent of bad news, yet another Bush fiasco has erupted with his attempt to use the rock standard "Still the One" as his theme song without bothering to ask its author for permission.

Rock and roll legend John Hall has issued a cease and desist order. Hall says he doesn't want his song "used to promote the candidacy of someone who has been a disaster for the environment." After widely announcing "Still the One" and blaring it at public rallies, Bush now says he won't use it.

Hall says he was "unwinding" after a long work day when he heard Lou Dobbs on CNN announce that the Bush campaign had adopted his song. The news report then featured it being played at a Bush rally in Ohio. "Our jaws dropped as 'Still The One"came pouring out of the speakers," says Hall.  "Johanna's words, Larry's voice, our harmonies and instrumental work and the emotion that went into it..."

10/27 Column

Bob/Harvey,  

Please have more journalistic integrity than to say that you have found a dozen ways that Bush is personally stealing the election in Ohio. The complaints you have listed concern local election processes. I wouldn't be so unsettled if you had at least cited the Ohio GOP, but this is simply another dishonest attempt to stab Bush personally.

Respectfully,
Sam Crepeau  (Upper Arlington)

My money down: Kerry over Bush

AUSTIN, Texas -- I finally put my money down on Tuesday, a whole week out. Kerry over Bush by two to three points in every state that matters except Florida. For those who find this an appalling, Bill Bennett-like display of disrespect for both good money and Our Nation's Future, I say, hey, no guts, no glory. Besides, Ladbrokes, the English betting firm, is offering 6 to 5 on Kerry.

            These things usually start locking down a week out at the latest, so by the last two to three days, nothing much can change it unless we get hit with a political meteorite. Bush is still putting much more money than Kerry into television ads, but the ad-blat factor has set in. Ad-blat is a combination of ad-fatigue, particularly afflicting the heroic citizens of our swing states, and the ubiquitous campaign ads of everyone from Joe Don Billups for county commission, precinct 2, to Mary Hannah Gonzalez-Chiu for state agriculture director. We live in a great nation.

Want to be REALLY scared this Halloween?

On Sunday, October 31, the Free Press brings two spine-tingling films to the Drexel East Theatre.
"Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election" - Re-live the horrors of the coup!
"Unconstitutional" - The evil John Ashcroft taking away your civil rights!

Each film is one-hour long, followed by an hour discussion by co-director Joan Sekler and local election activists.
Double feature starts at 1:30pm and again at 7:30pm. One of these must fit into your schedule.
$8 admission, $6 students and seniors, $10 with the new book by Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman: "Imprison Bush: WHy the President must be tried as a war criminal."
Drexel East Theatre, Main Street, Bexley.
Sponsored by Citizens Alliance for Secure Elections, the Election Protection Coalition, WVKO, Columbus Alive, League of Pissed Off Voters and the Free Press. 253-2571, truth@freeepress.org.

Bush's Cheap Mercenaries

President Bush's unilateral, preemptive war against Iraq is the worst foreign policy decision in the history of our country.  Even GW Bush's father said in his book "A World Transformed" the following: "I firmly believed that we should not march into Baghdad. ...  To occupy Iraq would instantly shatter our coalition, turning the whole Arab world against us."  It is too bad that GHW Bush's son has put our military in the position as very low paid mercenaries, who are only in Iraq to protect the interests of dozens of republican-friendly corporations, like Halliburton, all companies who have contributed to the republican party. 

White House neocons will resort to terrorism for Bush win

Once we understand that The White House neo-conservatives will do anything to win the re-election, we can see that they will borrow activities from agitation/propaganda history.  These are very competitive people who value winning above all morality. The neo-conservatives can easily create “situations.”  The polls are too close for them to leave the election up to chance.  They know that in uncertain times, people want to escape to safety and seek a father figure, who acts with conviction.  George W. Bush does have conviction.  He practically claims a link to God.

At nearly the last minute the White House could create and manipulate voter pre-polling fear that will turn voters to vote for Bush.  For example, CIA-hired spooks could bomb polling locations and/or major metropolitan areas a day or so preceding the election, October 31, or November 1.  Also, they will enhance the security/Bush propaganda by placing Bush closer to God by placing him on Air Force One (near heaven) for several hours on November 1.  Once you understand that for the neo-conservatives winning is everything, this is not so far-fetched.

Endorsing Mark Brown???  Please check him out!!!

Have you read this guy's manifesto?  It was online at one point, but is no longer -- he's virulently anti-choice, a little TOO supportive of the Second Amendment, if you get my meaning, and thinks that Separation of Church and State is BS.   If you want a copy of the .pdf file, entitiled "A Vision For America - Renaissance and Manifest Destiny" I can send it to you, but this guy is no Democrat -- your endorsement could result in a November Surprise if the anti-choice crowd (whom I imagine is responsible for getting this guy on the ballot -- he's not backed by the Dems) all vote for him, coupled with the 'throw the bums out' crowd.  Deb Pryce has disappointed me in many ways, but she's a moderate bipartisan (and powerful), that we can't afford to trade in for a DINO. 

PLEASE CHECK THIS OUT AND GET THE WORD OUT ON THIS GUY!

Brenda Keltner
St. Marys, Ohio
(columbusite for many years)

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