Kerry's four magic words tonight to win it all: "George Bush must resign"

John Kerry can win the debate and the election tonight by opening with the four most obvious words in global politics today: "George Bush must resign."

The confirmations that Bush lied about Saddam's non-existent ties to Al Quida, 9/11 and Weapons of Mass Destruction mean one vital thing above all: this administration can no longer conduct a credible foreign policy. Not in the next four years, four months or four days.

It's not about whether the Iraqi invasion was "worth it." Or whether the world is safer without Saddam Hussein.

It's about the inevitable next crisis. About the fact that this administration has taken the world to war on false pretenses.

And that it will never be believed again: It lied to the American people. It lied to Congress. It lied to the global community.

Next time, Bush will not be believed by any of them, no matter what the truth or urgency of the situation. The public, the Congress, the UN have all been burned, and "won't be fooled again."

So in all practical terms, Bush has nullified his ability to act on the world stage.

Do the Hokey Pokey

If that's all there is my friends, then let's keep dancing
Let's break out the booze and have a ball
If that's all there is…Peggy Lee

Words out there’s another election ‘bout to take place, and rumor has it this time it’s really, really important. Who is going to win this election, or what difference it will make is as insignificant as our choices seconded only to the obsolete ritual act of choosing.

Our nation’s original band of brothers were rascals, rogues, and renaissance men who drafted our nation’s position papers not in disregard of history, but because of it. From the declaration of its birth, 278-years ago, the concept of “We the people”, a “Representative Government” with “checks and balances” a “Constitutional Republic” and our original Patriot Act, known as “The Bill of Rights” was the foundation and promise of this new nation.

SATIRE: 'Who Would Jesus Debate?' Leaked White House Transcript

PRESIDENT BUSH:  Dammit, Turdblossom, I told you these debates were wrong.  Why do I have to answer to some liberal homosexual Senator.  Why does Dick have to sit with that wimp ambulance chaser.  It sends a mixed message.  It tells people we have a system whereby God’s leaders are subject to questioning. 

KARL ROVE:  George, we’ve been over this.

ATTORNEY-GENERAL ASHCROFT:  George is right, Karl.  We cannot allow heathens like John Kerry and John Edwards question God’s anointed.  They are not merely liberals, but Kerry is actually a Catholic. 

PRESIDENT BUSH:  I am God’s messenger.  This is a tough job.  That’s all they need to know.  That’s all the American people need to know.

SECRETARY RIDGE.  You told me there would be a terror strike so the debate would be called off.  I had the color codes all picked out. 

It never occurred to him?

PHILADELPHIA -- We all had our debate moments, but the one that stunned me was, "It's (Iraq is) hard work. I see it on the TV screens."

Watching it on TV, boy that is tough work all right. And what was the "hard work" thing about? Did Rove poll and find out people think the president vacations too much?

I also came to a full stop after the one about sending troops to die. "I never -- when I was running -- when we had the debate in 2000, never dreamt I'd be doing that." He never dreamt it?

It never occurred to him? Was this man prepared for the job? Help!

I lean to the "bubble president" theory of Bush's peevish, petulant performance in debate. They've kept him surrounded by people who keep telling him he's great. I blame Karl Rove, of course. Bush is not used to being questioned. In Bob Woodward's book "Bush at War," the president is quoted: "I'm the commander in chief, see, I don't need to explain, I do not need to explain why I say things. That's the interesting part about being president. Maybe somebody needs to explain to me why they say something, but I don't feel like I owe anybody an explanation."

Disinformation and Depleted Uranium

The RAD ALERT Conference: Nuclear Dollars versus the Common Good was held in Columbus on Sept. 25th complete with national and international level speakers. It seemed to be of a greater relative interest to the domestic psyops corps of the US Military. The central intent of the conference was to provide the necessary information to understand several current nuclear issues.

What I am most interested in here is the coverage given to the conference by the Columbus Dispatch. It actually provides several insights into the motivations of its editorial staff in its effort to provide what they tell us is "news." It is true that the subject matter of the conference had a strong technical element. It is also true that typical journalism graduates tend toward the liberal arts range of preferences and less toward the technical side of issues. This indicates a deficiency in our educational expectations. It is also true that corporate filtered news tend toward the bland and the pretense of fairness, rather than the substance

Information Age

The debates

John Kerry came across as the clear winner in Thursday night's debates on foreign policy.  As George W. Bush bumbled and stumbled his way through the debates, John Kerry was clear, concise and showed how Bush's bungled plan on Iraq was wrong and was a diversion from our goal; finding and killing Osama bin Laden.  Bush tried to mislead the public about a connection between Saddam Hussein and Iraq, but Kerry wouldn't let him do it.  Bush was not able to handle the heat that John Kerry was putting on him by forcing him to answer the tough questions that he hasn't been asked before.

        Bush's unwillingness to see the reality of Iraq and the war on terrorists only shows that he is unable to serve effectively as president.

Kerry VS Bush was no debate, Bush forfeited

It was Bush’s sophomoric pandering to the "average Joe" that ruined the quality of the debate and his insistence on untruth. That really was not a debate but a facade that needed more propping in the hurricane of truth from Kerry.

It was suggested by some media outlets that Kerry has a poor record in the Senate but the time he spent on these very issues that indited the right is then not referenced. His 2 investigations, one being the BCCI investigation and the Iran Contra investigation were both started by him.

He threatened the right and obviously has more guts to stick it out despite criticism and pressure from the "powers that be" as he did when he came back from Viet Nam.

It is these same guts that he used in the "debate" to enlighten the American public about the reality of the current administration and its present state.

Stephen Caruso

Hope for the homestretch

In an election likely to be decided as much by voter turnout as by convincing the remaining undecided, how do we maintain the hope that's necessary to keep making the phone calls, knocking on the doors, funding the key ads, and doing all the other critical tasks to get Bush out of office?

Even those of us working hard for change hit walls of doubt and uncertainty about whether our actions really matter. Our spirits rise and fall as if on a roller coaster with each shift in the polls. In a time when lies too often seem to prevail, we wonder whether it's worthwhile to keep making the effort.

We need to remind ourselves that we never can predict all the results of our actions. A few years ago, I met a Wesleyan University student who, with a few friends, registered nearly three hundred fellow students concerned about environmental threats and cuts in government financial aid programs. The Congressman they supported won by twenty-one votes. Before they began, the student and her friends feared that their modest efforts would be irrelevant.

Even when our actions seem futile, we never really know their full

Other Stuff

AUSTIN, Texas -- This column is not about the presidential debate. It's about Other Stuff. Particularly eye-catching are the updates on the price of gasoline, your overtime pay, why the company most likely to hold the mortgage on your house could go broke, why you're getting peanuts from new tax cuts just passed by Congress and how the government is kicking hundreds of thousands of kids off health insurance while promising not to. Cheer all around.

        -- The price of a barrel of oil went over $50 for the first time early this week, and the price of gassing up my vehicle, Truck Bob the Ford, is now $36 a pop. According to oil-ologists, this is on account of the unrest in oil-producing countries and rising global demand destabilizing world energy markets. Don't you love the jargon? The petro experts also say this ain't gonna get better.

        Also Not Helping -- in fact, headed in completely the wrong direction -- is U.S. energy policy under You Know Who. More than half the oil we use today is imported, much of it from such stable, democratic regimes as Iraq. The Energy Department predicts this will rise to 70 percent in 20 years.

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