Category: Politics

I spent part of this past weekend with about fifty-five other Canadians, a half-dozen Americans and a Frenchman. We are all hoping that President Bush wins on Tuesday. (I felt sorry for our friend from France who was besieged by “Kerry for President of France” t-shirts. “We have enough problems!” he replied.)
Anyway, this may seem hopelessly optimistic on my part, but I think the print media is wrong. We’ll know by Wednesday morning, but I’m predicting Bush wins with a 10-12 point spread in the popular vote.
Additionally, we enjoyed some hilarious on-line computer animation from jib-jab, including It’s Good to be in D.C. and This Land. (Warning, some of the political humor in these animations is a little coarse.)

Giant turd Michael Moore must be so happy — not only is “Fahrenheit 9/11” the favorite movie of Hezbollah and little Jimmy Carter, he’s given Osama bin Laden new ideas, too! Moore was the first person to popularize the clever “My Pet Goat” critique, which criticizes President Bush for continuing to read to kids after he was informed of the World Trade Center attacks. Apparently, he was supposed to leap up, rip off his clothes, and fly through the air to stop the other hijacked planes, instead of waiting for the Secret Service to arrange an emergency trip to the airport.
Senator Kerry (D-Fallujah), running on behalf of angry liberals and jihadists everywhere, must be even happier. For most of the last year, he and the Democrats have been saying that President Bush has made America less safe because we’ve made the international terrorists angry at us, whereas if we hadn’t invaded Iraq (and, many said, Afghanistan), the terrorists would have started making rugs or driving a cab or whatever it is that terrorists do when they switch careers.
Well, it turns out that Osama believes the same thing, and as a bona fide international terrorist, he ought to know. “Your security is in your own hands and each state which does not harm our security will remain safe,” he says to the American people. In other words: act like Spain, back away from the war on terror, and we won’t hurt you again.

We didn’t find difficulty dealing with Bush [the elder] and his administration due to the similarity of his regime and the regims in our countries….Here he is being influenced by these regimes, Royal and military. And was feeling jealous they were staying for decades in power stealing the nations finances without anybody overseeing them. So he transferred the oppression of freedom and tyranny to his son and they call it the Patriot Law to fight terrorism. He was bright in putting his sons as governors in states and he didn’t forget to transfer his experience from the rulers of our region to Florida to falsify elections to benefit from it in critical times.

Chris Core, a host on our local station WMAL (and a Catholic convert), said he was shocked that Osama seemed to be cribbing from the giant turd’s movie. (If you doubt that he could get a hold of “F9/11,” know that in the Mideast you can get any movie on a pirated DVD for about $5). I’ll give Moore some credit: he isn’t smart, but he is crafty. He’s fooled a lot of people into thinking that his cheap shots are arguments, and now even a megalomaniacal mass murderer has endorsed his views. Now that’s something to put on a résumé!
I’m sure this will be widely debated in the next few days, but I think Osama, even though he doesn’t say it explicitly, has endorsed Kerry for president. He agrees with Kerry’s approach to national security, which boils down to playing nice with people who want to slit our throats. There is nothing al Qaeda wants more than for us to “leave them alone,” free to destabilize and then subvert Middle Eastern governments until they can set up gangster states fueled by oil money, and then realize their fondest dream: completing the Final Solution.
Maybe this is one endorsement that Kerry should refuse.

Showing the spunky can-do spirit that got him out of Vietnam eight months before he was supposed to leave, Senator Kerry (D-Fallujah) imagines that military wives are whiny and hopeless:

Conjuring up the image of a woman walking into a voting booth thinking about her husband fighting in Iraq, [Kerry] said: “On Tuesday, you have the choice to give her hope. You have the choice to give America a fresh start.”

I’ve got a great idea, Senator: why don’t you try selling that line at Fort Bragg or Camp Lejeune, in front of a group of military wives? Why don’t you ask them what they think about a candidate who undermines their husbands’ mission, thus encouraging the murderous thugs they’re fighting? Maybe you could finish the trip with a visit to a military hospital, where you can explain to the Purple Heart recipients — and I’m talking about men with real injuries, not the little boo-boos you got — that their sacrifice was meaningless and wrong.

Gosh, she isn’t even First Lady, and already she’s tiresome.
In all likelihood, she’s living in sin with her “husband,” who refuses to document his supposed annulment, even though he says he’s “in good standing” with the Church. (He does think annulments are funny, however.) Lord, deliver us from these proud, ridiculous people.

Slate magazine thinks you do. Read my fisking of their novelists’ forum on the election over on CommentaryPage.com.