But the real point here is that this is just another example of Bush and his supporters firing off irrelevant weapons of mass distraction to divert attention from the massive failures and incompetency of this administration, whether it be the incredible shrinking surplus and balooning deficit, the first record of job loss during a presidential term since Herbert Hoover, non-existent or completely inept planning for post-war Iraq, increased numbers of Americans without health insurance, increased numbers of Americans in poverty, stagnant or falling wages and income, substantial increases in income inequality, failures to take any actions that might have prevented 9/11 such as adding air marshalls after being warned that airplanes were targetted for terrorist operations (and no, I’m not arguing that Bush knew or should have known that bin-Laden was going to attack the WTC and the Pentagon), failure to take actions that would have prevented the easily foreseeable abuse and torture at Abu-Gharaib, failure to take actions that would have prevented the easily forseeable looting and pillaging that took place in Iraq after we achieved “mission accomplished,” the failure to capture or kill bin-Laden, the returning chaos in Afghanistan, etc.

Where is the “accountability” that Republicans are so fond of touting? And what exactly are the accomplishments of this administration? It appears that the only one is that we haven’t yet been hit by another terrorist attack.

Leftists claim “moral superiority” based on Kerry Lies. This is the unspoken heart of the issue. See
http://tomgrey.motime.com/1093544824#329796

Taken from http://www.mediaresearch.org/. I believe this was actually a segment on ABC World News.

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Moveon.org’s former organizing director now helps run the Kerry campaign’s Web site. Moveon.org gets legal advice from Joe Sandler, who also works for the Democratic National Committee, which works directly with the Kerry campaign. The Bush campaign claims illegal coordination between the Kerry campaign and not only Moveon.org, but liberal independent groups, America Coming Together, or A.C.T., and its partner, the Media Fund. Harold Ickes advises both A.C.T. and the Democratic National Committee. Attorney Bob Bauer gives legal advice to A.C.T. and gets paid by the DNC for advice he gives to the Kerry campaign. Bill Knapp made TV ads for the Media Fund and now makes them for the Kerry campaign. Even former Kerry campaign manager Jim Jordan, who left the campaign late last year, now helps run both A.C.T. and the Media Fund.”

I don’t think kerry will join on bush’s flip flops. He signed CFR saying it was too restrictive. Now he thinks not restrictive enough? I think not.

Bush has now raised the ante by asking Kerry to join him in condemning the activities of all 527s. Will it happen? Not a snowball’s chance. Not when nine of the top ten 527s are either anti-Bush, pro-Democrat or pro-Kerry. The “liberal eight” have collected over $113 million so far, 718 times more cash raised than the Swiftvets ($158,000) over the same period. Three of the top ten are heavily funded by George Soros, who had strange opinions on how to deal with 9/11:

And we can’t forget the snarky apology when they were busted.

Anyone w/an ounce of brains knows the ads should have never gotten as far as they did.

Look at the timeline, Drew.

Americans were screaming for the incumbent protection act. They got what they wanted. This is what happens when you don’t keep it simple, just raising the limits which were set in 1974 and adapting to the web.

Sign the 180, John.

“However, the bill does have flaws. Certain provisions present serious constitutional concerns. In particular, H.R. 2356 goes farther than I originally proposed by preventing all individuals, not just unions and corporations, from making donations to political parties in connection with Federal elections.
I believe individual freedom to participate in elections should be expanded, not diminished; and when individual freedoms are restricted, questions arise under the First Amendment.
I also have reservations about the constitutionality of the broad ban on issue advertising, which restrains the speech of a wide variety of groups on issues of public import in the months closest to an election. I expect that the courts will resolve these legitimate legal questions as appropriate under the law.”

In other words, Bush opposed restricting 527s. I think that might be called a flip-flop. Moreover, nothing Bush or his supporters have said goes to the direct question of the specific ads in question. Talk about having one’s cake and eating it — he never condemns the ads, his supporters, friends and employees pay for and support the group who makes them, he then makes some insincere and empty noises about “all 527s” and how Kerry “ought to proud of his service” and reaps whatever benefits he can from the repeated airings, both paid and free on newscasts. Kerry, in contrast, directly stated that he opposed the specific Move-on ad that questioned Bush’s National Guard “service.” And give it up already about the Bush/Hitler claim — as everyone with an ounce of brains should know, the ad that contained the statement was one of 100s that were submitted by an individual in a Move-on contest. It was never aired, was only available briefly on the web-site and was promptly removed.

More interesting would be to track the various advisors, lawyers, et al associated with the Dean campaign. That would provide much more interesting insight into today’s politics. Those involved with his fund raising efforts are especially suspect. They seem to think of the whole business of fund raising on the Internet as being more important as some political game than the reason for which the funds were intended.

And now, of course, their efforts and “what they learned” have moved on to the Kerry campaign, directly or indirectly, or moveon.org, etc. etc. It’s truly amazing how much money these people make whose motives are really to manipulate the electorate with their liberal philosophy being incidental.

What Aisha fails to realize is that if Kerry was not the candidate, there would be no SBVTs.

This is not about W – it is about Kerry and his Nam and post-war activities. This is THE inter-60s-boomer event which will not die until they all do. This is what defined them.

He is a communist sympathizer, appeaser and traitor. He visited w/the VC in Paris while he was on inactive status in the Naval Reserves.

His 1971 Congressional testimony partially based on people who never were in Nam. Liars. Parts of his testimony read right out of the VC propaganda.

The VC used Kerry’s testimony during torture, that is where the “what he gave up for free” statement comes from. One of those in the ad is a great friend of McCain who was with him in the Hanoi Hilton, even ran his pres campaign in VA(?).

Kerry actively shaped the domestic and world view of our soldiers which continues to this day. He SMEARED them all. I don’t know how old you are, but it was bad here in the 70s if you were a soldier. He was wrong about the VC and over 1m people died. It’s not coincidence that 90% of Vietnamese-Americans are voting for W.

C-Span runs a 1971 debate between O’Neill and Kerry on the Dick Cavett show. Check it out.

Mark Levin, the conservative lawyer/talk-show-host, who I deeply admire and listen to each weekday evening on WABC Talk Radio, said the same thing about Talk Radio WABC’s morning host, communist/anarchist/terrorist defense attorney Ron Kuby:

“Ron Kuby didn’t resign [from WABC] and he still defends lowlifes.”

I agree with you; I just don’t get why Ginsberg did that.