Presidential Race ctd 10

1. The Osama Litmus Test: Kerry did say that we are all united in the fight against bin Laden, but he just couldn't help himself. His first instinct was to get political.
   On Milwaukee television, he used the video as an occasion to attack the president: "He didn't choose to use American forces to hunt down Osama bin Laden. He outsourced the job." Kerry continued with a little riff from his stump speech, "I am absolutely confident I have the ability to make America safer."
   Even in this shocking moment, this echo of Sept. 11, Kerry saw his political opportunities and he took 'em. There's such a thing as being so nakedly ambitious that you offend the people you hope to impress. (david brooks, nyt)
2. Bin Laden Adopts Democrat Talking Points: In a remarkable geopolitical meeting of minds, the pre-election address of top global terrorist Osama bin Laden shows he has adopted many of the Democratic Party's talking points.Transcripts of the address released late Friday reveal such stunning similarities that it's obvious bin Laden has been following the U.S. presidential race very closely - and he agrees on issue after issue with domestic critics of the Bush administration. (newsmax)
3. Impact Of Tape On Race Is Uncertain, Dueling Spin Over October Surprise (wapo)
4. Osama bin Laden's invitation to Pres. Kerry to negotiate a truce (beldar)
5. Liberal blog Buzzmachine: Bin Laden remixes Fahrenheit 9/11 (buzzmachine.com)
6. The Bush Reelection Imperative (jewishpress)
7. Colorado teacher kicks student for wearing GOP shirt (sfgate.com)
8. Kerry's October surprise
   While John Kerry is running around claiming President George Bush and our troops overseas failed the American people by not guarding an explosives dump without explosives in it, documents have been uncovered at Texas Tech University that show Kerry was following Vietnam War protest guidelines from North Vietnamese communists in the early 1970s.
   (missippi press)
9. Pew Internet & Politics survey (pdf)
10. CRONKITE: KARL ROVE BEHIND BIN LADEN TAPESat Oct 30 2004 16:31:19 ET Former CBSNEWS anchorman Walter Cronkite believes Bush adviser Karl Rove is possibly behind the new Bin Laden tape.Cronkite made the startling comments late Friday during an interview on CNN.Cronkite said he is "inclined to think that Karl Rove, the political manager at the White House, who is a very clever man, he probably set up bin Laden to this thing."Interviewer Larry King did not ask Cronkite to elaborate on the provocative election eve accusation. (drudge)
11. Close & bitter election: But there can be a backlash to vitriol, as Minnesota Democrats discovered after the bile unleashed at Paul Wellstone's funeral in 2002. Demo-crats, living in a cocoon where Bush hatred is universal and unexceptionable, failed to anticipate that. Have they made the same mistake again? (barone, usnews)
12. IT'S TIME FOR A LONG LOOK IN THE MIRROR
    First, is there any doubt that some bootleg DVD or videotape of Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11" made it to a remote mountain village somewhere near the Afghan-Pakistan border?
    I could be proven wrong, but I now have drastically revised my prediction of what's going to happen on election night. A Bush landslide is now exponentially more likely, as every voter walks into the voting booth with the topic of terrorism on his or her mind. It's far and away Bush's strongest issue.
    The far left hates George W. Bush with a raging fury. So does al-Qaeda. Was it really so shocking that the rhetoric of the former would eventually be taken up by the latter?
    No, this tape should cause many on the left to stare into the mirror for a long time and ask, “What have I turned into? How did I become so reflexively partisan, so blinded by rage, so intemperate in my rhetoric that my own arguments are being echoed by a man who planned and enjoyed the mass murder of Americans?”(nationalreview)
13. Please, no post-election heroic measures , nasty Gore precedent (signonsandiego)
14. Importance of Bush: is Remnant enough to carry the day: Kerry is unconscionable. He is a shameless, vindictive, wack-left extrem- ist - a crypto-pacifist. A Kennedy acolyte. A mountebank, a charlatan, a fraud. A con- summate, congenital liar. A self-serving, self-righteous, self-pro- moter - and insufferably arrogant. A fabricator, an embellisher, a credit-taker surpassing even Al Gore. (Ross Mackenzie)
15. Abortion issue on everybody's mind: In April 2004, Kerry took a rare timeout from the presidential campaign to appear on the Senate floor to vote against a bill that would make it a crime to harm a fetus during an assault on the mother — a bill supported by two-thirds of senators. Kerry also joined a Senate minority in voting against a ban on partial-birth abortion.
    The pro-life constituency that would be most crushed by a Kerry victory is Catholics. No other group has so doggedly led the fight to halt abortion, and a potential Catholic president stands poised to undermine that progress. What Pope John Paul II has described as the Culture of Death may be abetted by no less than a practicing Catholic in the Oval Office. That is what is at stake on Tuesday. (Kengor, National Review)
16. Battle Cry of Faithful Pits Believers Against the Rest (nyt)
17. Hispanic Democratic group in Fla. rejects Kerry endorsement, citing moral issues (bpnews)
18. Telegraph UK endorses Bush: "Kerry isn't the answer" (telegraph)
19. Comment: Rod Liddle: Even the Democrats don’t fancy Kerry (timesonline.co.uk)
20. Kerry's Legacy: No One Who Has Aided the Enemy Deserves to Become President: Kerry's legacy isn't that he has the same initials as John Fitzgerald Kennedy or that he motored around the rivers of South Vietnam in a small boat for four months before asking to leave the war early. His legacy is more along the lines of Benedict Arnold's. The only difference is that Benedict Arnold was a successful soldier before he committed treason. I doubt Benedict Arnold would have much success running for President today. Are we to believe that someone who aided the enemy in time of war is worthy of becoming President?(richmond times-dispatch)
21. UK Historian Paul Johnson endorses Bush: I cannot recall any election when the enemies of America all over the world have been so unanimous in hoping for the victory of one candidate. That is the overwhelming reason that John Kerry must be defeated, heavily and comprehensively. (hispanic american center)
22. A shoddy October Surprise: The late-breaking story about missing explosives in Iraq should bother all those people who keep saying that mainstream journalism is better and fairer than ever ... Isn't this journalistic malpractice? (john leo)
23. MN Senator Rudy Boschwitz on Bush: Since 1980 not a single country has turned from democracy to tyranny, but dozens have turned from tyranny to become open societies and that trend continues. The election in Afghanistan -- the first ever in that country -- was a truly remarkable event. If it can happen in Afghanistan, it will surely happen in Iraq and taken together, a profound change will occur in the Middle East that will change the course of events there.
    Tyranny has been commonplace throughout my life. I was born in Germany two years before the advent of Adolph Hitler as Reich Chancellor on January 30,1933. On that day my Dad came home and told my Mom we would leave Germany forever. Six months later we were gone. Of my family that remained on the continent of Europe, only one survived Nazism.
    During my lifetime, few leaders or so called statesmen looked tyranny and evil in the eye and said: you can't do that and if you persist we're going to act and take you out. Most sought to negotiate, appease, buy off or not confront the evil-doer. But there were exceptions and those leaders made the world a better and safer place.
    I very much believe in President George Bush's capabilities in leading this nation and the world in this fight, whether in concert with the full array of nations or without them -- and leadership by definition is sometimes alonely project. (powerlineblog)

Other

• What Bills or Laws John Kerry got passed (volokh conspiracy)
• Planned Parenthood is the largest abortion provider in America. 78% of their clinics are in minority communities. Blacks make up 12% of the population, but 35% of the abortions in America. Are we being targeted? Isn't that genocide? We are the only minority in America that is on the decline in population. If the current trend continues, by 2038 the black vote will be insignificant. Did you know that the founder of Planned Parenthood, Margaret Sanger, was a devout racist who created the Negro Project designed to sterilize unknowing black women and others she deemed as undesirables of society? The founder of Planned Parenthood said, "Colored people are like human weeds and are to be exterminated." Is her vision being fulfilled today?(blackgenocide.org)
• Osama bin Laden 1971, second from right, on a family outing in Falun, Sweden (picture)
• Interactive Electoral College Map: swf (pbs.org)
• New URL Spoofing Flaw Found in Internet Explorer: A new spoofing flaw in Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser allows an improperly coded web link to send users to a diffferent URL than the one displayed in the status bar. (netcraft)
• 'Image is all' for PLO leader's fashion-loving young wife If anything was guaranteed to annoy the Palestinians, it was a comment made by Yasser Arafat's wife after the birth of their daughter, Zahwa. As Suha Arafat proudly showed off the Palestinian leader's only child at the £1,100-a-night hospital in Paris in July 1995, she declared: "Our child was conceived in Gaza, but sanitary conditions there are terrible. I don't want to be a hero and risk my baby."
  Her remarks highlighted the widening gulf between the Palestinian "first lady" and her people - many of whom live on little more than £3 a day per family. (telegraph uk)