By ALEXANDER COCKBURN
I asked one usually radical friend of mine, now a Kerrycrat, how she could support a fellow who pledges a “better”, wider war in Iraq and then a march on Teheran. “Oh” she said airily, “you can’t believe anything a candidate will say.”
From where we sit, here at mission control, CounterPunch hq, (currently a facility known as the Claremont Inn off Interstate 10 east of LA, where Jeffrey St Clair is watching three inches of rain sluicing down on the San Gabriel (…)
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The Great Delusion Kerrycrats and the War
29 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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A month of mini ’October surprises’
29 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
A flurry of revelations, from Iraq’s missing explosives to the flu vaccine shortage, have touched this year’s presidential race.
By Linda Feldmann | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
WASHINGTON - On the eve of a presidential contest, late-breaking events can have an outsize impact. While nothing has risen to the level of a blockbuster "October surprise" - the term coined from the 1980 race, when Democrats feared Ronald Reagan and his friends were secretly arranging to delay (…) -
NASA photo analyst: Bush wore a device during debate
29 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
2 commentsOct. 29, 2004 | George W. Bush tried to laugh off the bulge. "I don’t know what that is," he said on "Good Morning America" on Wednesday, referring to the infamous protrusion beneath his jacket during the presidential debates. "I’m embarrassed to say it’s a poorly tailored shirt."
Dr. Robert M. Nelson, however, was not laughing. He knew the president was not telling the truth. And Nelson is neither conspiracy theorist nor midnight blogger. He’s a senior research scientist for NASA and (…) -
Greens Call the Survival of the U.S. Constitution a Missing Issue of the 2004 Election
29 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
Greens Call the Survival of the U.S. Constitution a Missing Issue of the 2004 Election
OCTOBER 28, 2004
WASHINGTON — October 28 — Green Party candidates and leaders have called the sustained assault on the U.S. Constitution over the past decade one of the missing issues of the 2004 election year. "The Constitution — not the flag or the Pledge of Allegiance — is the glue that holds our nation together," said Marakay Rogers, Green candidate for Attorney General of Pennsylvania. "Democrats (…) -
Study: Terror Warnings Up Approval Ratings
29 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
By WILLIAM KATES
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — When the government issues a terror warning, the president’s approval rating increases an average of nearly three points, a Cornell University sociologist says.
"The social theories predict it, and anecdotally we know it to be true. Now we have statistical science to confirm it," said Robb Willer, assistant director of Cornell’s Sociology and Small Groups Laboratory.
On average, a terror warning prompted a 2.75 point increase in President George Bush’s (…) -
Gary Hart: ’We said September 11 was going to happen. I was angry with myself for not doing more’
29 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
The Monday Interview: Former senator and twice-failed presidential candidate
By Andrew Buncombe in Washington
Gary Hart, the former senator and presidential candidate, has been around politics for a long time. That experience is telling him that John Kerry is going to win the US presidential election when America goes to the polls one week tomorrow.
"It’s partly intuitive and partly based on several hidden votes that are not [shown in the polls]," he said. "The hidden votes are new (…) -
Eminem issues call to arms for the MTV generation (New post-election version)
29 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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by Dan Glaister
Eminem has become the latest music star to weigh in on this year’s presidential election. In a video for his new single, Mosh, the singer takes George Bush to task for raising taxes and waging the war in Iraq.
"Strap him with AK-47, let him go/Fight his own (…) -
Blair admits - yes, I’ve met Kerry
29 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentAFTER months of embarrassed silence over links with US Democrats, Downing Street finally admitted yesterday that Tony Blair had twice met John Kerry, who is challenging the Prime Minister’s war ally President Bush for the Oval Office.
The disclosure suggests that Mr Blair may be hedging his bets on the outcome of the US elections.
Previously the Government has raised no objection to claims, repeated on both sides of the Atlantic, that Mr Blair had “never met” the Democratic presidential (…) -
58,000 Absentee Ballots Missing in Florida
29 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
Postal Experts Hunt for Missing Ballots in Florida
by Michael Christie
MIAMI (Reuters) - U.S. Postal Service investigators on Wednesday were trying to find thousands of absentee ballots which should have been delivered to voters in one of Florida’s most populous counties, officials said.
The issue evoked memories of the polling problems that bedeviled the Florida election in 2000 and which the state has been trying to address before next Tuesday’s presidential election, which is again (…) -
Killing for Christ : the Destructive Power of Faith
25 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
3 commentsby WILLIAM A. COOK
A pall hangs over this election, a shroud of darkness that oppresses the heart because its outcome guarantees no change, only the certainty of continued chaos if Bush should win and the unknown direction a Kerry victory might take, a direction that could continue the chaos America’s mired in, a darkness, then, to appall. I read each day the crippling accounts of soldiers caught in a maelstrom of unseen death lurking on roof tops, in narrow alleys, behind cement walls and (…)