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To: freelyhovering who wrote (137354)	6/21/2004 9:32:13 PM
From: Dr. Id	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

An amazing column by a Conservative For those who don't know, Charley Reese is a columnist for the King Features Syndicate. I didn't. He turns out three columns a week and is known as a committed conservative. I guess that's why this column caused such a stir. He apparently backed off, took a good look, and then did a complete flip. A person in Florida reads him in the Orlando Sentinel and forwarded the following column. It reinforces my idea that it won't be the liberals who bring GW down...it will be the moderate conservatives. The worm is turning... Here's the article: Vote For A Man, Not A Puppet By Charley Reese Americans should realize that if they vote for President Bush's re-election, they are really voting for the architects of war - Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz and the rest of that cabal of neoconservative ideologues and their corporate backers. I have sadly come to the conclusion that President Bush is merely a frontman, an empty suit, who is manipulated by the people in his administration. Bush has the most dangerously simplistic view of the world of any president in my memory. It's no wonder the president avoids press conferences like the plague. Take away his cue cards and he can barely talk. Americans should be embarrassed that an Arab king (Abdullah of Jordan) spoke more fluently and articulately in English than our own president at their joint press conference recently. John Kerry is at least an educated man, well-read, who knows how to think and who knows that the world is a great deal more complex than Bush's comic-book world of American heroes and foreign evildoers. It's unfortunate that in our poorly educated country, Kerry's very intelligence and refusal to adopt simplistic slogans might doom his presidential election efforts. But Thomas Jefferson said it well, as he did so often, when he observed that people who expect to be ignorant and free expect what never was and never will be. People who think of themselves as conservatives will really display their stupidity, as I did in the last election, by voting for Bush. Bush is as far from being a conservative as you can get. Well, he fooled me once, but he won't fool me twice. It is not at all conservative to balloon government spending, to vastly increase the power of government, to show contempt for the Constitution and the rule of law, or to tell people that foreign outsourcing of American jobs is good for them, that giant fiscal and trade deficits don't matter, and that people should not know what their government is doing. Bush is the most prone-to-classify, the most secretive president in the 20th century. His administration leans dangerously toward the authoritarian. It's no wonder that the Justice Department has convicted a few Arab-Americans of supporting terrorism. What would you do if you found yourself arrested and a federal prosecutor whispers in your ear that either you can plea-bargain this or the president will designate you an enemy combatant and you'll be held incommunicado for the duration? This election really is important, not only for domestic reasons, but because Bush's foreign policy has been a dangerous disaster. He's almost restarted the Cold War with Russia and the nuclear arms race. America is not only hated in the Middle East, but it has few friends anywhere in the world thanks to the arrogance and ineptness of the Bush administration. Don't forget, a scientific poll of Europeans found us, Israel, North Korea and Iran as the greatest threats to world peace. I will swallow a lot of petty policy differences with Kerry to get a man in the White House with brains enough not to blow up the world and us with it. Go to Kerry's Web site and read some of the magazine profiles on him. You'll find that there is a great deal more to Kerry than the GOP attack dogs would have you believe. Besides, it would be fun to have a president who plays hockey, windsurfs, ride motorcycles, plays the guitar, writes poetry and speaks French. It would be good to have a man in the White House who has killed people face to face. Killing people has a sobering effect on a man and dispels all illusions about war. 2004 by King Features Syndicate, Inc.

To: freelyhovering who wrote (137354)	6/21/2004 9:43:08 PM
From: Neeka	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I use several sources.....all online. I read the Seattle Times online every morning. I have alerts sent to my email address from the WSJ including Opinion Journal Online, CNN, FOX and the LA Times, which inevitably leads me to other stories within these sites. I also like to visit the AP, The Christian Science Monitor and for interesting little tidbits to pique my interest.....the Drudge Report. I do look at foreign sources if relevant including Arab news media and the BBC. And as I said in my post: because of the growing influence of the Internet, including blogs and the ability to access an incredible amount of information at the click of a mouse, individuals have the ability to find information from several sources, check facts as reported by the NYT...or any source for that matter If you would you like a list of blogs, go here: bloglines.com