Month: October 2004

Dennis Prager asks the question – “What would Zarqawi be doing if he weren’t in Iraq?” His analysis is dead on.

John Edwards mentioned the death of Christopher Reeve in a speech on Monday, and in doing so, commented that if John Kerry becomes president, people like Reeve would “walk again”, insinuating that by re-electing George Bush, the crippled will stay crippled and might even die. There is absolutely no scientific proof today that embryonic stem cell research will remove paralysis. Time will tell, but the fact that Edwards would exploit Reeve’s death before the man has even been buried is outrageous. Comments like these are typical of the trial lawyer approach. It emphasizes Edwards inexperience. I’d like to believe that his rhetoric was simply a slip, a misjudgment of thought. No, that’s not what it was. With calculation, Edwards used fear and emotion to gain the approval of a small crowd of loyal democrats during a political rally. This is the kind of politics that democrats crave – the ability to use an emotional issue like death as a way to pit people against each other. This is not good politics…it’s dirty and wrong. John Edwards should be ashamed for what he said, and democrats should apologize to the millions of disabled Americans whose hopes they’ve raised.

UPDATE: The Kerry Spot has more…

The Bottom Line:

“I’ve heard a lot of hype over the last 30 years about the keys to the kingdom here in this issue. And all of them have proved false. For Edwards to make the claims he did is the worst demagoguery I’ve heard in Washington in a quarter century. To imply that Christopher Reeve was kept in the wheelchair because of the policies of the Bush administration on stem cells is ridiculous and insulting” – Columnist Charles Krauthammer.

Still More… Edwards: ‘We will stop juvenile diabetes, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and other debilitating diseases… When John Kerry is president, people like Christopher Reeve are going get up out of that wheelchair and walk again.’ Edwards made the unprecedented campaign promises during 30-minute speech at Newton High School gym in Newton, Iowa…

And you…you look like the adopted second cousin once removed through marriage of Nong Duc Manh!

Dreaming of 21 (that’s twenty one) megabytes per second…(nyt reg req.)

Sinclair Broadcast Group, which owns 62 television stations throughout the U.S., has asked their stations to air a documentary critical of John Kerry’s 1971 congressional testimony and his subsequent anti-war activities. A number of democrats as well as the DNC have been going nuts over this, with protests hurled in every direction – most notably the FCC and the FEC (will the U.N. be next?). Given the nature of politics these days, I predict that in no time we’ll see an investigation into Sinclair’s past business dealings as well as a good ‘ol fashioned tax audit by the IRS.

Meanwhile, Sinclair has posted the following on their website:

“We welcome your comments regarding the upcoming special news event featuring the topic of Americans held as prisoners of war in Vietnam. The program has not been videotaped and the exact format of this unscripted event has not been finalized. Characterizations regarding the content are premature and are based on ill-informed sources.

Massachusetts Senator John Kerry has been invited to participate. You can urge him to appear by calling his Washington, D.C. campaign headquarters at (202) 712-3000.”

The DNC posted their own crucifixion campaign. 

It’s about to get (even more) nasty.

Update: And the Kos wackos are in full swing already.

Update II: Good Lord, that didn’t take long. StopSinclair.org.

The latest musings from Andrew Sullivan. And another one bites the dust.

Krauthammer in good form.

Reuters/Zogby has Kerry leading Bush, 47-44. 

Courtesy of the Washington Post:

Bush 51%
Kerry 46%

Joining the conspiracy crowd, the New York Times (registration req.) speculates on the “bulge” on Bush’s back visible during the first debate in Miami. What crap.