Here is my favorite article of the week.

http://www.suntimes.com/output/brown/cst-nws-brown01.html

Here are some quotes from the 2004 Presidential Debates.

Convocation Center
University of Miami
Coral Gables, Florida

September 30, 2004

Bush:
We've got a plan in place. The plan says there'll be elections in January, and there will be.

Kerry:
Now, we have a choice here. I've laid out a plan by which I think we can be successful in Iraq: with a summit; by doing better training, faster; by cutting -- by doing what we need to do with respect to the U.N. and the elections. There's only 25 percent of the people in there. They can't have an election right now. The President is not getting the job done.

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Washington University
St. Louis, Missouri

October 8, 2004

SENATOR KERRY: I have laid out a different plan because the President's plan is not working. You see that every night on television. There's chaos in Iraq. King Abdullah of Jordan said just yesterday, or the day before, you can't hold elections in Iraq with the chaos that's going on today.

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Watch this awesome video:

http://adamkeiper.blogs.com/comparevideo/files/Iraq_Election_HiRes.wmv

I’ve been thinking about my website lately and I’ve determined that there is too much political content on it. I think many of us had the election on our minds however so it was simply a reflection of what was going on with me at the time. Well the elections are sadly not over in our state. I do intend to ease up on the political content on this site but I just had to write something about the Governor’s race in the state of Washington.
For those that do not know this, we are facing a third recount in the race for Governor of our state because the race has been so close. Dino Rossi (R) has won both counts and now Chris Gregoire (D) is chanting the “every vote should count” mantra as good reason to continue dragging this thing out needlessly. Their desire is to have a hand recount only in counties that favor them. So much for the “every vote should count” idea.
The text below is taken from the home page of the Chris Gregoire campaign at http://www.gregoire2004.com/. I’ve attempted to translate from liberal speak to plain English. My comments are in red.

First of all, Happy Thanksgiving!

As you may have heard, the ongoing vote count has found numerous mistakes. Like all of those pesky votes for Dino Rossi, that MUST be a mistake. 

It's also moved the race into a tie - with nearly 3 million votes cast, there's 42 votes between the two candidates. *AHEM* Last I heard a “tie” meant that the count was equal. 42 more votes for Rossi makes Rossi the winner. 

Chris Gregoire believes that voters have a sacred right to have their ballots counted. That's been our goal throughout this process. Unless of course we had come out of it as the winner. Then you wouldn't be hearing all of this “every vote should count” nonsense. 

We want every vote to be counted. But that hasn't happened yet. This race won't be over until every vote is counted. Since every vote has been counted twice, what we really mean is that this race won't be over until we find a way to win. Our best bet is for us to have a hand recount only in precincts that favor us. Did I say every vote should count?? I meant every vote that goes my way. I don't really give a rip about the other ones. 

A letter is on its way to the secretary of state's office asking Secretary Reed to investigate and correct a number of anomalies and irregularities in the count. Actually the letter ended up being from an attorney who threatened litigation if this doesn't go my way, but we won't mention that here. You can read the letter that was sent by clicking here (or the attachment at the bottom of this entry.) 

In particular, we want to know why 2700 provisional ballots were thrown out.

About 15,000 votes at the precinct level were read wrong by the machines, and shifted during this week's count. That's why there should be a hand count. In fact, if the machines had done their job correctly the first time, we would be in a hand count right now.

Only a hand count - open to observers from both parties - will protect people's sacred right to vote and provide a definitive answer to who won the election. And only that definitive answer will enable the next Governor to govern effectively.

Right now, our state is evenly split on who should be our next governor. Unless we count every vote, that division will linger. As the next governor tries to build a budget, tackle unemployment and spur the economy, they would be hampered by an unbridgeable partisan divide. And we will see to that by accusing Rossi of stealing the election every chance we get. When we're done with that we'll make sure and call George Bush a divider not a uniter.

It may take some more time to get all the votes counted. But in the end, it's worth a two week delay to have four years of certainty and to ensure that every vote is counted.

If the results of a hand count do not go the way Chris hopes and expects, she will offer Senator Rossi her support and do whatever she can to bring our state together. After she gets done suing. 

In the meantime, both camps will continue to work on their transitions, and be ready to take office in January.

I want to thank you for all of your continued support, and wish a happy Thanksgiving for you and your loved ones.

http://www.imao.us/archives/cat_frank_the_artist.html 

Take this quiz to find out which way you lean politically. It's not incredibly scientific but I found it interesting nonetheless.

Click here for the quiz.

CNN is really proving just how slanted they are. They show Kerry conceding but they refuse to give President Bush the proper amount of electoral votes. Here's a screen shot:

Is it any surprise that the liberals are already claiming foul on this election? They've been setting this up for weeks with reports of "disenfranchised" voters. Most of the stories that you have heard are completely false. I can already hear the "George Bush stole the election" rhetoric.

Oh well. I'm going to bed.

LANDSLIDE!

Sorry I couldn't resist. :-)

Ok I'm going to be really annoyed if they call Washington for Kerry prematurely. Here is the screen shot of the status as of 8:55 PM in Seattle:

It's 8:43 PM in Seattle and the local news just showed that President Bush is at 49% and John Kerry is at 48% in  the state of Washington. I can almost guarantee that the national media will call Washington for Kerry very soon however.

It's 8:00 PM Pacific Standard time in Seattle. Up until just a few minutes ago it was Kerry 112 and Bush 196 electoral votes. I think the networks were concerned that Kerry was looking a little too far behind so they called California early. We all know that California is probably going to go for Kerry but the reality is that the votes simply have not been counted. In fact they keep calling other states “too close to call” even though 80% of the votes are in. Here are the screen shots that I took of the CNN site:

I'm usually not a big fan of these party crossover campaign techniques. The story of Beth Hjalseth being featured in a campaign for Chris Gregoire shows how flawed and misleading this can often be.

Read the full story here.

However, I really liked this article written by Meryl Yourish explaining why she is voting for President Bush on November 2nd.

Read the article here.

Yesterday John Edwards made the following statement while on the campaign trail.

"If we do the work that we can do in this country, the work that we will do when John Kerry is president, people like Christopher Reeve will get up out of that wheelchair and walk again."

I think John Edwards has been watching a little too much Benny Hinn.

Here's a great article on this subject.

Are these people crazy? This story has me absolutely befuddled. Here's the story in a nutshell. This middle school teacher has a montage of US presidents on the wall of her classroom. Included in the montage is a picture of our current president George Bush. There was a back-to-school night for parents and students and she was confronted by three parents about having the picture of George Bush on the wall. When she refused, she got in serious trouble. Here are some quotes from the story:

“Veteran English teacher Shiba Pillai-Diaz says she was shocked when three parents confronted her. The three, insisting the teacher either add John Kerry's photo to the montage of presidents or remove the Bush photo.”

Last time I checked John Kerry has never been the President of the United States. This was a montage of presidents folks!

“Pillai-Diaz ultimately removed the entire bulletin board and says School Principal Jim Warfel told her she disrupted the school with her "inflammatory politics". She says he then ordered her out of the building. While she says she is a Bush supporter in her personal life, Pillai-Diaz says she keeps politics out of the classroom.“

Read the full story here.