Whistle Ass / George Bush 2004

Number of Poor People Has Risen 17% Under Mr. Bush (He's not a racist; he hates all poor people, of color or not)

...If it's shameful that we have bloated corpses on New Orleans streets, it's even more disgraceful that the infant mortality rate in America's capital is twice as high as in China's capital. That's right - the number of babies who died before their first birthdays amounted to 11.5 per thousand live births in 2002 in Washington, compared with 4.6 in Beijing...
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/06/opinion/06kristof.html?ex=1283659200&en=23e833ade1061563&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss

made in china (or) what has Wal-Mart really done to America

...China has so many dollars to lend to us because we send so many dollars to China to pay for the goods and services that patriotic American corporations have decided to supply to us from China instead of from America...
...Americans are pouring so much money into China that China can finance our wars while it buys up our companies...
...Everyone was shocked that a Chinese company could outbid Chevron for Unocal. China has already purchased IBM's personal computer business, and is now after US appliance maker Maytag (whose appliances are made in Mexico)... http://www.counterpunch.org/

NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND: many problems

...Let's say a teacher starts the year with a classroom full of children whose skills are woefully low, and by the end of that year most have improved tremendously. Their spring tests show them going from a rating of "far below basic" up two big rungs to "basic," one level below "proficient." The teacher and school get no credit for this remarkable achievement under No Child Left Behind. The teacher has "failed." In consequence, such teachers, and the principals of their schools, could ultimately be replaced under the law... http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editorials/la-ed-nclb23oct23,1,1988242.story?coll=la-news-comment-editorials

Dangerous teenaged girl removed from Bush Event in Minnesota for Wearing Wellstone T shirt

You can see how this girl would have scared Bush... click here to see the picture of this dangerous Wellstone-shirt-wearing teen

John Kerry down in polls; Wonder Why?

...Homeland Security Chief Tom Ridge has issued two terror alerts during the presidential campaign. One immediately followed John Kerry's choice of John Edwards as his running mate. The other immediately followed the Democratic National Convention...
http://www.freepress.org/columns/display/7/2004/946

John Kerry's 2004 Vice President: Who will it be?

Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack appears to be the hot name of the week in John F. Kerry's secretive search for a running mate, having been spotted with the right people recently...
...The speculative list goes on and on: Rep. Richard A. Gephardt (Mo.), who is also being vetted; Sen. Evan Bayh (Ind.); retired Gen. Wesley K. Clark; Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. (Del.); former Nebraska senator Bob Kerrey; former Georgia senators Sam Nunn and Max Cleland; Sen. Bill Nelson (Fla.); Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius; and, of course, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.).
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12863-2004May9.html

Cheney and Energy Task Force input to be ruled by Supreme Court

As Linda Greenhouse recently pointed out in The New York Times, the legal arguments the administration is making for the secrecy of the energy task force are "strikingly similar" to those it makes for its right to detain, without trial, anyone it deems an enemy combatant. In both cases, as Ms. Greenhouse puts it, the administration has put forward "a vision of presidential power . . . as far-reaching as any the court has seen."

That same vision is apparent in many other actions. Just to mention one: we learn from Bob Woodward that the administration diverted funds earmarked for Afghanistan to preparations for an invasion of Iraq without asking or even notifying Congress.

What Mr. Cheney is defending, in other words, is a doctrine that makes the United States a sort of elected dictatorship: a system in which the president, once in office, can do whatever he likes, and isn't obliged to consult or inform either Congress or the public.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/27/opinion/27KRUG.html

Democrats or Republicans: The America I Live In: Notes for the Campaign, 2004

By Bernard Weiner

This is the America I live in.

A normal, average citizen, I unlock the front door and enter my home. I don't know if anyone has entered surreptitiously -- perhaps a sneak-and-peek job by Ashcroft's black-bag boys.

I boot up my computer to go online. I don't know if my email is being monitored, if my keystrokes are being recorded.

I call my attorney, about a family matter. I don't know if communication with my lawyer, previously regarded as "confidential," is being listened to. (This, and the other examples above, and many below, flow from the Bush-Ashcroft "USA Patriot Act.")

I visit my physician, and learn later that my employer found out about a chronic condition I had and laid me off, to keep his insurance costs down. The doctor-patient confidentiality I thought existed is now breachable by government agencies in cahoots with insurance companies... (read the disturbing rest)...

C.I.A. Chief Says He's Corrected Cheney Privately

By DOUGLAS JEHL WASHINGTON, March 9 — George J. Tenet, the director of central intelligence, told a Senate committee on Tuesday that he had privately intervened on several occasions to correct what he regarded as public misstatements on intelligence by Vice President Dick Cheney and others, and that he would do so again.
"When I believed that someone was misconstruing intelligence, I said something about it," he said. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/10/politics/10INTE.html?ei=5062&en=f6e987766c1b0736&ex=1079499600&partner=GOOGLE&pagewanted=print&position=

Aristide and Haiti update: USA, George Bush and Colin Powell's 2-faced guilt of Coup involvement

Militarily, the administration's complicity in the coup was even more obvious. As armed gangs surrounded the Haitian capital, Powell made clear that "there is frankly no enthusiasm" for "sending in military or police forces to put down the violence" - a signal to the rebels to continue their insurgency...

... But then, at almost the moment Aristide was deposed, the President reversed his hands-off Haiti policy and ordered 2,000 U.S. Marines to secure the island.

http://www.misleader.org/daily_mislead/Read.asp?fn=df03032004.html