Politics: October 2004 Archives

OK, maybe not for president, but it's nice to see someone in the entertainment industry shaking things up politically (and no, Puffy, your Vote or Die campaign doesn't qualify as intelligent discource).

Watch his little tiff with the Crossfire guys here

U.S. Military Pounds Targets in and Around Falluja
The operation came as the Islamic holy month of Ramadan began. Also, Poland said it would reduce its troops in Iraq.

Good to see the headline writers didn't forget Poland.

Did anybody notice that on Wednesday's debate, Bush had what can only be called a bit of spittle forming in the corner of his mouth near the beginning of the debate? It lasted through a question or two and got worse before it got better.

Weren't we all wondering what Bush's top-secret notes from the debate looked like?

Hopefully everyone who reads this caught the debate on TV last night. I watched it in what felt like a small Manhattan studio apartment, but, in retrospect, it's probably one of the bigger studios I've seen. A good reminder of why I like Brooklyn. I do recommend watching future debates on C-SPAN as last night the station showed Jim Lehr giving the university students in the audience quite the talking-to in regards to total silence during the debates. He also blew his nose right before the thing started, which humanized him just a bit.

Whichever side of the debate you fall on, I hope everyone agrees it was an embarrassment as an American to see our commander in chief barely able to verbalize his support for the war he initiated. His only justification for it was that the world is better off without Saddam Hussein in power. The world would be better off without a lot of dictators in power, but since when do we go around toppling dictators like sandcastles, especially without a plan to not throw the country into total chaos?

Some links for your pleasure
MSNBC: Vote for the "winner" in debates
New York Times: Debate Analysis
CNN: Debating the First Debate
BBC: Iraq dominates the great debate

UPDATE
Why I love the internet