While you continue to bash Kerry unmercilessly, let me keep up with o'l deserter Bush's fake persona. Recently, in 2 newsaper articles about GIs back from Iraq going off the reservation without permission, the army's base spokesperson said if such GI was absent without leave he/she would be consider a deserter. A DESERTER! Why that what Mike Moore called George Bush. Given Bush the benefit of the doubt on his NG situation between Texas and Alabama, I find he was at least AWOL for 5 months and in time of war. Who is kidding whom here? Bush by all rights, if he didn't have push and pull from powerful people, should have been in the stockade or disciplined for the record in some way. Do you want this guy with his record not now hidden to continue to be president? Give me a break! Some people have to be brain dead or are willfully ignoring reality, thus jeopardizing America's and its citizens' future.

Bush is "the BIG LIE, stupid." This whole regime of Bush's is the BIG lie. From an incompetent person becoming the president by false pretenses, to the lies for war, to the lies on the economy, on jobs, on Medicare, on environmental protection and other legislation and agency actions where the pitch is to say one thing to get approval or con the public while in reality this adminisration means an entirely different thing, e.g., the Clean Air Act (or something like that) promoted by the adminstration for Bush's utility friends and signed into law by him that will allow more air pollution, not less.

I am sure the old USSR operated under the concept of the big lie, made infamous by George Orwell in "1984" but the most significant practitioner of that black art was mister NAZI himself, Joseph Goebbels.It appears to me that Karl Rove has steered Bush into being his Hitlerian foil to Rove's imitation of Goebbels. You remember from WWII films about the Nazis the scenes of Jewish and other people being taken into German concentration camps under the "Arbeit Machs Frei" signs. "Work makes you free." A nifty con to get the prisoners to go into the camps without trouble. Ya, those prisoners were going to work their way to freedom in the form of freedom by death.

It is not much of a step for people who think they are superior to the general populus and that the public is stupid to manipulate it to get what they want through lies, deceit and anti-democratic activities. It is a very deadly game that those figures in politics without legitimacy use to take and keep power.

What bothers me on this Blog is not the heavy bashing of Kerry, if he is any good he will answer up to the serious questions about his character and beliefs, but your seemingly unquestioning faith in Bush. He is a person of such immense character faults as to make it criminal for a man like him to be president. America needs and deserves a president who is better than Bush.

Dear Petey,
Who you calling stupid?
Where have you've been? They've proven that the "AWOL" theory was a bunch of rhetoric. And anyone who’s been in the reserves knows exactly how record keeping is. Let me guess, not a reservist, are you? Let's see the Medical records only prove Bush's teeth were in Alabama. Kerry's a fowl-mouthed, unmoral, pathetic excuse for botoxed skin who use his power and pull to abandon his command and troops after a short 4 months. He collected three Purple Hearts but has no limp. All his injuries were so minor that he lost no time from duty.
And the about the lies for war; Yeah Tony (a lefty) and Bush cooked up this intelligence to go to war. IT WAS BRITISH INTTELLIGENCE given to Bush not US, so explain word for word where Bush lied. Kerry's the liar! PROOF http://www.instapundit.com/archives/014617.php
Becoming president under false pretenses? Florida? You guys lost, get over it.
The economy is great! The index of leading economic indicators has turned up, and the stock market is rising again. In addition, there has been a slight uptick in temporary hiring, generally considered an indicator of more-permanent jobs to come.
Compared with the "exceptional" years of of Clinton, 1993, 1994, and 1995, the first three years of George W. Bush's presidency featured
lower inflation, lower unemployment, faster productivity growth, faster labor compensation growth (i.e., wages and benefits, 29.4 percent ($6.9 trillion) more economic output, 45 percent ($960 billion) more exports; and an economic growth rate 81.2 percent as fast as that under Clinton. Unemployment rate is down to 5.5% from Clinton's 6.2%. Farm productivity is way up there at 4.1% compared to Clintons piddly .5%. Gross domestic products are up to $30.3 trillion compared to Clintons $23.4 trillion and exports are up to 3.09 trillion compared to Clintons $2.13 trillion. The American can see the #'s, they don't lie.
oh, btw that's "Arbeit Machts Frei" not "Machs" (work powers free).
The Nazis frequently hung meaningless slogans on camp entrances. No one who entered the camps was deceived by hollow promises. No one was ever released for working hard or for good behavior, especially with guns to their backs. They were not fooled by this con. To compare Bush and Rove to the Nazis is insane. I have faith in the American people; they're not as mindless as you think. They’ll vote for the right man, the one who will support his military and keep his country prosperous and as safe as possible.

Carla, glad to see you here. But this is just a put-back for me. By the way, my real name is Peter. I am probably old enough to be your father or maybe even your grandfather and I like my names.

Actually I am wondering where you have been. Perhaps you never heard the saying "its the economy, stupid," or maybe you don't know about the use of literary allusion.

I wonder why some plain old grunts can be alleged to be deserters for being a month or so absent without leave and Bush in 1971 was absent for a about 5 months (check the info, I believe he left his Texas unit in the Fall 1971 and did not get permission shown by the record to move to Alabama until the Spring 1972. Show me your the proof otherwise. I think you can't, so the issue is still open. Has ANYONE in his Alabama unit or from the base come forward to state unequivically Bush had signed in in Alabama or was seen doing his duty? Lead me to the proof. His teeth were in Alabama after him supposedly had finished with his Guard duty and his private work in Alabama. What relevance does that have to his skipping out on his army duties?

Kerry who has some deficiencies, did considerably better than your Georgie boy. Kerry didn't dodge the duty, he was in the field of fire, he was hit 3 times and inches anyway from where he was hit could have killed or maimed him. Where was your Bush, hidding out at the old homestead in Texas or ducking fire in Alabama? Kerry was in the Zone, can liar Bush claim that?

Bush lied, my goodness Carla, you don't believe it? Where are the WMD he and his minnions claimed to exist in Iraq? Where is Saddam's connection with al Qaida that was claimed? What happened to the claim of the supposed buy of "yellow cake" for nuclear material from Niger? A preposteriously fake claim made by Georgie in the State of the Union address, to all Americans he lied. My dear, you can't pass that off on the British, as our own government agents established that the "yellow cake" claim was fraudulent before Bush made his claim in January, 2003 to the American people. Bush's administration KNEW the nuclear material buy was bogus many months before Bush spoke of it. The claim Bush makes that he relied on Bristish intelligence is just another con to keep his job. And a bad one at that. Blaming it on the British is like you telling a patrol officer that you should not get a speeding ticket because your passenger told you you were not going over the speed limit even though you saw the speed sign and you knew you were going over the limit.

That's all for now. I will finish later.