It's amazing the extent to which I don't care about this scandal. The only people who seem to be all worked up about it are Bush supporters, and they were already going to vote against Kerry anyway, so it doesn't seem to me that it makes any difference. Kerry's campaign has lost momentum for other reasons that have me a lot more concern.
I wish my daughters were done with school, because it's starting to look possible that I'm going to wish I could move to Canada.
If these memos are not genuine, then my likely candidate for their dissemination to CBS was probably the Bush campaign itself. That is the Machievellian tack, invoking what rhetoricians call an "appeal to Justice." It goes thusly:
Induce your opposition to make a false accusation.
Reveal the accusation to be false.
Accuse your opposition of the vice of injustice.
Of course, such an argument will overshadow the fact that the contents of the memos were (in essence) true, regardless of the provenance of them. Which overshadowing, of course, is the entire point.
Yet the underlying point remains: Bush (and Cheney), due to family political connections, were manipulators of the system, studiously avoided serving in a war. Now, that's not a bad thing in the ordinary Joe. I have survival instincts, too. But Bush, with his family in particular, being in a position of influence, supported sending others to be maimed or killed in that war.
And thus began a behavior pattern that we see today. Bush got away with being irresponsible in the early 1970s, and why not now? Bush and friends didn't even think to give much thought to the consequences: Over a thousand killed, many thousand badly injured. Our friends, soldiers, sitting ducks in Iraq (and Afghanistan). I'm afraid this was entirely too foreseeable.
And it stems from George's already documented lack of character.
The rest is prestidigitation — Oh! Look at the Wookiee! Over there! -->
Well, yes, I know it's ridiculous. If you read the associated text from my post, you'll see that I posted it for its amusement value, not for its likelihood of being any approximation of the truth.
On a completely different hand, I would suspect that some of Kerry's slippage in the polls in New Jersey (since that state came up in the silly article) is due to voter disenchantment with the state's Democratic party given the shenanigans going on with the governor's resignation.
"If you read the associated text from my post, you'll see that I posted it for its amusement value, not for its likelihood of being any approximation of the truth."
I'm sorry; I never thought you believed it. That was supposed to be obvious.
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Date: 2004-09-14 06:45 pm (UTC)As to the limits of cedulity, well I think we need to quote that political mastermind Buzz Lightyear. "To Infinity; and Beyond".
After all, people believe .
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Date: 2004-09-14 06:47 pm (UTC)Sigh.
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Date: 2004-09-14 07:23 pm (UTC)http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_entitiesref.asp
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Date: 2004-09-14 07:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-14 07:27 pm (UTC)I wish my daughters were done with school, because it's starting to look possible that I'm going to wish I could move to Canada.
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Date: 2004-09-14 08:33 pm (UTC)Of course, such an argument will overshadow the fact that the contents of the memos were (in essence) true, regardless of the provenance of them. Which overshadowing, of course, is the entire point.
Yet the underlying point remains: Bush (and Cheney), due to family political connections, were manipulators of the system, studiously avoided serving in a war. Now, that's not a bad thing in the ordinary Joe. I have survival instincts, too. But Bush, with his family in particular, being in a position of influence, supported sending others to be maimed or killed in that war.
And thus began a behavior pattern that we see today. Bush got away with being irresponsible in the early 1970s, and why not now? Bush and friends didn't even think to give much thought to the consequences: Over a thousand killed, many thousand badly injured. Our friends, soldiers, sitting ducks in Iraq (and Afghanistan). I'm afraid this was entirely too foreseeable.
And it stems from George's already documented lack of character.
The rest is prestidigitation — Oh! Look at the Wookiee! Over there! -->
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Date: 2004-09-14 09:09 pm (UTC)And it's an idiotic movie-plot theory, not reality.
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Date: 2004-09-14 09:14 pm (UTC)On a completely different hand, I would suspect that some of Kerry's slippage in the polls in New Jersey (since that state came up in the silly article) is due to voter disenchantment with the state's Democratic party given the shenanigans going on with the governor's resignation.
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Date: 2004-09-14 09:15 pm (UTC)I'm sorry; I never thought you believed it. That was supposed to be obvious.
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Date: 2004-09-14 09:16 pm (UTC)