Thursday, September 02, 2004

Arrived in Medicine Hat, Alberta.  

Today's audioblogpost features music by Ludwig van Beethoven. 

RSS feeds from Brazil from Folha Online. 

Lawrence Lee summarizes the recording options on Windows and Mac.  

Command Post: "Karl Rove has to be the one bringing out all these double agents. He has to be the one who booked Miller and Ron Silver and Arnold. It had to be his idea to attack Kerry almost from within, using people liberals like and respect. A Democrat Senator and two movie stars, one of them a Jew. If they can feel good about backing George Bush, anyone can. It’s too brilliant not to be Rove. Unless it was Bush himself. He’s smart enough, whether he mispronounces things or not." 

Dowbrigade: "Bush may be a Master Poker player, but we are far from sure we want him playing our hand when all of our chips are on the table." 

The Republicans talk about Kerry flip-flops, okay, but can we look at their flip-flops? The big glaring one I keep thinking of was the Bush promise of No Nation Building, as if to imply that his administration, if elected, would only act at home, something lot of novice Presidents promise, before they get sucked into Middle East politics, as they all do. What about that great 60 Minutes interview when he didn't know the name of the President of Pakistan? Maybe we should ask that question again? Come on Dems, let's nail this bastard. He almost had me going with the cute daughters and stoic wife. The Zell Miller speech was a wakeup call. That wasn't an election speech, that was incitement to a lynch mob. Guess who's the guest of honor? Think about it. Why was the Miller speech so scary? Answer -- you're next. That's what Miller was saying. After this election we put on the brown shirts. I saw John McCain interviewed on NBC after the Miller speech. You could tell he was scared. They asked if he thought Kerry would make a good commander in chief, he said yes he would. That's the kind of candidate the Reps should nominate. Then after the election, win or lose, we won't have to have a civil war.  

Jeff Sharlet: "Just as it took a Republican like Nixon to go to China, it took a Democrat like Miller to declare that God likes America best."