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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: steve harris who wrote (42320)	8/30/2005 12:05:53 AM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

I'm not only American, my family is typical heartland all-American including soldiers, ministers, businessmen, athletes, educators, entertainers, federal rangers and builders. My family is a cross-section of midwestern Anglo-Saxon-Swedish-Irish protestant small town third generation Americans, ranging from conservatives to liberals, mainly Republicans, and everything inbetween. Some of my relatives voted for Bush but I don't think any of them approve of him any longer except maybe my Born Again (and emotionally troubled) cousin. Like millions of others, they feel hoodwinked and even betrayed. The ones who voted for Bush miss Clinton. Clinton may have lied about his personal life but he was otherwise an honest American who really got things accomplished, not just for a few cronies but for everyone equally. That makes for a great American leader. To leave the country better off than it was when he started running received it. Clinton did. Bush has done just the opposite. Clinton was also much more bi-partisan and much less divisive. I'll bet if people could choose between the two now, Clinton would beat Bush by 30%. I believe Bush will go down in history as the worst president since Herbert Hoover. It is also proven that he cheated to get into power to begin with.

To: steve harris who wrote (42320)	8/30/2005 9:38:11 AM
From: paret	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 93284

"Professor" Krugman Can't Get Anything Right-- Idiot Lefty Embarrasses Himself Again ...................................................... The Krugman Korrection, take 2 Powerline ^ \| August 30, 2005 \| Scott Johnson Last week we noted the case of the Krugman Korrection in "The Krugman Korrection" and "Into your life it will creep." Krugman appended his "corrections" to his column this past Friday, in part reiterating one of the key misrepresentations of his previous column. The case of the Krugman Korrection implicated the Star Tribune because the Strib had run Krugman's kolumn on August 22, after it had already been exposed as a fraud here by John and elsewhere by others. True to form, the Star Tribune korrects Krugman's kolumn by running his Times kolumn with the "corrections" appended, four days after they have run in the Times, in a weekday edition of the Star Tribune with half the circulation of the Sunday edition where Krugman's kolumn originally ran: "Why many aren't cheering about the economy." Bad as the Star Tribune is, the Portland Oregonian is even worse. Like the Star Tribune, it ran Krugman's kolumn on August 22. On Sunday, according to reader Jeff Kempe, the Oregonian ran Krugman’s Friday column, but without the "corrections" Krugman was forced to make. Kempe has written the Oregonian: One of the advantages, one would think, of being a second tier daily is the ability to vet for accuracy and edit stories and columns already run elsewhere. The Oregonian, after all, trumpets its full effort to be “accurate, fair and complete.” That’s why I was surprised a week or so ago to see a column by Paul Krugman – a partisan hack whose attention to the truth is so flawed that web sites have sprung up just to correct him – that was notable not only for its flagrant omissions but a couple of serious whoppers: that two news consortiums had concluded Gore would have won the 2000 election with a recount (exactly the opposite is true), and that there was a 98.7% voter turnout in Miami County, Ohio in the 2004 election (actually 72.2%). Both were used to try to prop up the completely ludicrous assumption of the column: that Republicans don’t win elections, they steal them. If the memory of the Oregonian editors is as poor as it apparently is, Krugman was blog-corrected within an hour of the column appearing on the NYT website; barring that a Google search could have produced the right answers, though it would have cost fifteen or so seconds. The Oregonian ran the column days later, unchanged, anyway. The Times’ Public Editor, forced by both Krugman and Maureen Dowd to oversee the op-ed pages as well as the news, asked Krugman for appropriate corrections, which he issued – though tepid – at the end of his Friday Times column. That Krugman column ran today (Sunday) in The Oregonian...without the corrections. So The Oregonian can edit columns before they run! Apparently, though, the mitigating factor is propagating an agenda, as opposed to anything to do with truth. No damned wonder you get 202 letters opposed to the war and only 23 in favor: Everyone but the Left’s True Believers and a few news junkies like me have abandoned you. “Accurate, fair and complete”? My tush. Both the Star Tribune and the Oregonian deserve special recognition in the lamestream media hall of shame.