Archive: October 30, 2004

Saturday, October 30, 2004

1. Jeff Jarvis: Bin Laden remixes Fahrenheit 9/11, via IP.

   Update: Also see this. And this.

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2. OpinionJournal: Bush Voters in Baghdad "Liberal Iraqis almost all hope for the president's re-election."

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3. Donald Sensing: "Let's call the whole thing off".

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4. Via Power Line, a good article about Al Gore's legacy:

   But Gore refused to accept that he lost Florida, that he lost the presidency, by so small a margin. He refused to put the national interest before his own selfish interest.
   
   He dispatched his lawyers to the Sunshine State to contest the election. And his lawyers used every legal maneuver in their arsenal to overturn Gore's defeat – challenging the manner in which Florida conducted its balloting, claiming that certain voter blocs were disenfranchised.
   
   The result is that a portion of the populace refuses to this day to accept the outcome of the 2000 election (despite a post-election ballot review by a consortium of media organizations that concluded, unequivocally, that Bush won Florida no matter how the votes were counted or recounted).
   
   It is because of the Gore precedent, because he tried to win the 2000 election in the courts after losing at the ballot box, that this nation remains so bitterly divided between Republicans and Democrats.
   
   And the nation is likely to remain bitterly divided following this year's presidential election. Because John Kerry is already gearing up to contest the outcome of the election even before voters go to the polls on Election Day.
   
   In fact, lawyers for the Democrats already have filed some 35 lawsuits in some 17 states. And if Kerry goes down to defeat on Election Day, there almost certainly will be an avalanche of lawsuits claiming that the Democrat somehow was cheated out of the presidency.
   
   ...the reality is that the rash of election-related litigation precipitated by Kerry and the Democrats is doing lasting, perhaps irreparable, damage to the democratic process in this country.
   
   Indeed, Doug Lewis, executive director of the Election Center, a nonprofit organization, told the Associated Press this week that all the legal wrangling is "disastrous for fundamental faith in the system" by which presidents have been elected since this nation's founding.

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5. Power Line: Bush's Swing State Ace In the Hole

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6. Natalie Solent:

   [Bush] didn't limit himself to making a downside for terrorism, necessary though that was. (Not that most of his opponents would have done it.) Instead he did what idealists claim to want: he set out to tackle the injustice and oppression that are the root causes of terrorism.

   Via Power Line.

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7. IMAO: The IMAO Presidential Endorsement

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Belmont Club: Osama Bin Laden's Surrender Proposal

Belmont Club: Osama Bin Laden's Surrender Proposal. Must read.

Of course, one aspect of "leaving them alone" would be abandoning support for Israel, which Kerry might just be willing to do. We are not.

Update: More comments from Donald Sensing and Captains Quarters:

OBL has definately been watching too many Michael Moore videos in his cave.

Update: More at Power Line:

Do you suppose there are any Democrats honest enough to be embarrassed that Osama bin Laden has enthusiastically adopted their campaign themes?

Update: DJ Drummond:

I wonder how many people have thought about the fact that, assuming it’s really ObL, the man who once assured the world that his greatest wish was to die a martyr while attacking the ‘Great Satan’, is now suggesting he wants to ‘negotiate’ with us?

I smell fear. Wussie Islamofascist fear.

Heh.

Last update: lgf: Time for the Left to Look in the Mirror - The Democratic party should reflect on the fact that the world's most prominent terrorist puts out a video that seems to largely echo their talking points.

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1. Amazon.com: Books: The Second Coming of Steve Jobs, via Steve Dekorte. Sounds like a neat book.

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