October 6th, 2004
Dat Der is Sum Goood Poltics
I did watch the Presidential debates last week and haven’t had the chance to watch the VP debates yet. I’ll try to get to those tonight. Last night Jaden and I watched Aladdin on DVD and had a blast! I also watch the part of the wonderful Farenheit 9/11 DVD and it is to say the least it’s great (of course, you all knew I would say that right?). It was a good night overall.
October 6th, 2004 at 9:01 pm
I’d have to agree: “the least great” sounds very appropriate for F9/11.
When you watch the VP debate, be ready to watch your boy take some serious hits (Edwards, not Jaden). Edwards gave back, to be sure, but Cheney really had some damaging attacks. If I’d been Cheney I’d have needed a coupla dudes to keep me from socking that smug mug of his . . .
October 6th, 2004 at 11:19 pm
Funny, everything I have been hearing and the polls I’ve seen seem to be leaning towards Edwards as the winner. I did hear that Edwards brought up the “no bid” contract that Cheney’s Halliburton supposedly “won” for supporting our troops. I can’t believe this issue wasn’t attacked more furiously throughout Kerry’s campaign. It’s kind of a letdown to Kerry’s people not use such blatant issues as this one to steamroll right over the “little texan who thought he could.” In his 2000 debate, Cheney flat out said preferential treatment would not be an issue when it comes to government contracts and Halliburton… hmmm, I would use the term flip-flopper but let’s just call this one for what it is, a bald-faced lie. Why didn’t the horns come ripping out of his head during this latest debate (I smell a photoshop opportunity coming on). too tired… must continue later
October 7th, 2004 at 10:34 am
I heard it was Cheney who demanded the desk format. Probably because he has been a cybernetic organism since the late 1980s and doesn’t have the whole “standing behind the podium” routine worked out in the programming.
To be honest, I didn’t watch the VP debate because the first few minutes seemed pretty boring and I figured it wouldn’t improve much.
And Arlen, you still haven’t seen F/911, so let’s keep the spin to a minimum, por favor. I know it’s hard, being a Republican and all.
And here’s another critique of the Democrats. Why is it, even though Kerry’s performance was much stronger in the first debate, that the Democrats have spent the last few days “reacting” to all the Republican spin on Kerry’s remark about the “global test”? Why can’t they just dismiss this latest spin outright, and start their own offensive on Bush? What a bunch of nancies. I’ve been pretty hard on my team, I admit, but they really bug me.
Scott, you need to make your comment boxes bigger…
October 7th, 2004 at 11:37 am
You are uninformed about the Halliburton situation. Halliburton is doing the same work for the Bush administration in Iraq as it did for the Clinton administration in Bosnia. And if you can find any evidence that Cheney has pulled any strings for the company, or that he has profited from it in any real way since taking office, you have accomplished something that no one else has been able to do. The Republicans are not 100% on the level with a lot of things, but this Democratic outcry about Halliburton is just nonsense. If you are able to call it a “blatant issue” and “bald-faced lie” after reading the following facts, then maybe I’m just wasting my time with this comment. (Hi Mark! haha . . .)
http://www.factcheck.org/article.aspx?docID=261
http://www.nationalreview.com/kerry/kerry200410050850.asp
October 7th, 2004 at 11:39 am
Hey, I couldn’t resist the “least great” jab. In the absence of clarifying commas, meanings are open to abuse . . .
October 7th, 2004 at 12:17 pm
“Facts” and “National Review”. Whoa Nelly.
But I will concede that the Halliburton thing is blown out of proportion. That’s something both parties are pretty good at. But Cheney is a very rich guy, and white (and American) to boot, so we on the left just hate him by default. And these no-bid contracts are just lazy, sloppy, porky government at its worst. Nothing conservative about them.
I did think it was funny that Cheney directed people to factcheck.com. He gets the big matzo ball for that one.
Hey, wait a minute, we just moved some cargo for Halliburton, so I guess we are part of the problem too. I hate myself.
October 7th, 2004 at 12:30 pm
Mark, we already knew you hated yourself. Self-realization is a wonderful, if painful, thing. Now you are free to shed the shackles of Communism and learn that money makes the whole world go round, not just the Right’s world.
October 7th, 2004 at 12:35 pm
Yeah, that Aladdin… a fine film. My favorite part is when Jafar and Jasmine get into that heated arguement about sitting at desks or not.
How did I know there’d be no Aladdin comments from this post?
October 7th, 2004 at 1:45 pm
That Aladdin DVD is supa nice! I’m only on Disc 1 right now but Jaden seems to like the dance sequences but doesn’t like that scary cat in the desert!
October 7th, 2004 at 7:19 pm
Yes, Mark, I’m still holding onto the category called “fact”. I don’t assume you dismiss as so many trumped up falsehoods all the, shall we call them “data”, in the factcheck.org document? Or claim that the copies of Cheney’s Halliburton paystubs are made up by Republicans? I ask because “whoa nelly” suggests to me that you dismiss both sources as unreliable prima facie.
October 8th, 2004 at 8:16 am
No, Nelly, I was just suggesting that “facts” and “National Review” are an odd couple. I have no problem with factcheck.org - it’s a good source of info for this campaign. Too bad Cheney screwed it up with the .com thing… There is good “data” in the National Review article, strung together by partisan commentary, which tends to diminish it’s effectiveness as a source of “facts.” Kind of like F/911.
You said “after reading the following facts” and then listed an article in NR. Did you expect me to let that slide?
October 8th, 2004 at 1:06 pm
I certainly anticipated some comment, but I thought it had enough goods in it that it was worth tossing your & Scott’s way. At first I had it listed before the factcheck.com article, but thought you might stop reading if you saw NR come first.
I had heard that Aladdin and F9/11 were going to have a coordinated DVD release, with a special feature that mixes the two and has Aladdin flying his carpet into tall buildings. Only nothing bad happens, because the only effect his rug has is to dust off the part that it hits. I suppose Aladdin falls off the carpet . . . that’s bad, if he doesn’t land right.