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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: bentway who wrote (41160)	8/6/2004 8:23:26 PM
From: SiouxPal	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 81568

"She's got to be the sexiest 67 year old woman I've ever seen" That ain't sick pal, that is truth up. She's sexy AND sassy. I likes my women smart too. Triple threat. I dang sure would want to date her rather than Ann Coulter. :•) Sioux

To: bentway who wrote (41160)	8/6/2004 8:53:38 PM
From: zonkie	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

<She's got to be the sexiest 67 year old woman I've ever seen> Did you happen to see Maureen Dowd on Imus yesterday? WOW, what a sweet woman. I was very struck by her. She just replaced Molly Ivins as my favorite female journalist. Molly may be a tiny bit better writer but Maureen's sexiness tips my vote to her. _________________________ Maureen Dowd: Bush gets by with help from his kids Maureen Dowd NYT Friday, July 16, 2004 WASHINGTON The president and the first lady said the twins weren't public figures, yet here are their figures in public. The strapless sisters are helping a campaign that's increasingly strapped. Barbara and Jenna, glamming like the Hilton sisters, are in gowns in Vogue, and in vogue on the trail, giving Dad some much-needed cover by uncovering their shoulders. With even Republicans like Pat Roberts, the head of the Senate Intelligence Committee, questioning whether the president would have launched a war against Iraq if he'd known how weak his case was, Bush needs all the distractions he can get. There was faint support Wednesday for Bush's feint on gay marriage. W. thought he had a bit in the maverick's mouth, but Senator John McCain bit back, bolting over to the Democratic side to help embarrass the president by defeating the constitutional amendment that dare not speak its name. McCain scorned the amendment banning gay marriage as "antithetical in every way to the core philosophy of Republicans." (Well, some Republicans.) When the British report came out Wednesday declaring that Saddam Hussein had no significant weapons of mass destruction, or perhaps no weapons of mass destruction, Tony Blair accepted "full personal responsibility" for "the way the issue was presented and, therefore, for any errors made." Bush, by contrast, took full personal irresponsibility. Still pressing the preposterous case that he has made America safer, even though we are inundated with threats from Al Qaeda, and that he is winning the war against terror, even though there are more terrorist attacks, the president had to go farther afield to find a sufficiently enthusiastic audience. Instead of fleeing to Canada to dodge a war, W. had to flee practically to Canada to defend a war. In the middle of July, the president was campaigning in the middle of nowhere, in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan - the first president to bother to trek up to Nick Adams country since William Howard Taft. Bush must have left the buck in deer country because the White House keeps passing the blame to the same CIA that Dick Cheney and his Pentagon henchmen leaned on to supply the rationale they needed for the war they were determined to launch. They're trying to turn George Tenet from lapdog to scapegoat, while letting Cheney, the 800-pound gorilla who tried to turn the little CIA analysts into parrots, continue his rumble in the jungle. If this sounds like "Animal Farm," it is. What is more Orwellian than Bush's rhetorical fallacies? Campaigning at the nuclear lab in Oak Ridge, Tennessee - he finally found nuclear-related capability - Bush defended the Iraq war: "So I had a choice to make: Either take the word of a madman or defend America." He also said of the terrorists, "We will confront them overseas so we do not have to confront them here at home." That's nonsense. Just because more terrorists are attacking Americans abroad doesn't mean terrorists aren't poised to also attack us at home. And in fact, Bush officials keep warning us that terrorists are planning "something big" here, as the acting CIA director, John McLaughlin, said Wednesday in a radio interview. It's just like the president's other false dichotomies: You're either with us, or you're with the terrorists. If we don't stop gays from marrying, it will destroy the institution of marriage. His illogic is flawless and may be catching. A Washington Post poll published Wednesday found that 55 percent of Americans like the way Bush is handling terrorism, up 5 points in three weeks. So even though the poll showed that a record high number of Americans say Bush's war was a mistake, more Americans trust Bush to make the United States more secure. Many voters think that the president and vice president are unjustifiably putting lives at risk by going to war with a false premise and creating more terrorists. But many voters are apparently dithering because they are too wary of the alternative to boot out Bush and Cheney. The nub of this election is that John Kerry has so far failed to convince voters that he'll do what Bush promised to do and hasn't: Go after Osama and Al Qaeda and destroy them. Unless John Kerry can make that sale, Americans face not a false dilemma, but a real one. E-mail: liberties@nytimes.com iht.com