October 26, 2004
James Taranto is the best.
The New York Sun notes that the Times/CBS report was based on a letter from Mohamed ElBaradei, who is seeking a third term as head of the International Atomic Energy Commission. The Bush administration opposes ElBaradei's reappointment, so one suspects that this was a foreign effort to influence the outcome of America's presidential election, aided by our domestic partisan liberal media.
James Taranto also makes a good, optimistic counterpoint to my post below: this whole mess would've been even worse if the NY Times hadn't broken this story yesterday. Then, 60 Minutes would show its hacket job on Sunday, two days before the election, really leaving us no time to clear up the story.
James made me feel a lot better yesterday, too, when I was feeling down about the election. I emailed him my feelings that I was scared Bush will lose. He mostly just made me laugh and that was a big help in itself. He wrote me back: 'In my opinion, there is only one way in which Bush can possibly lose, and that is if Kerry gets a majority of electoral votes. Barring that, Bush is home free.' Hahahaha. So, thanks James, it was just the kind of pep talk I needed.
Posted by Karol at October 26, 2004 04:33 PM | TrackBackTechnorati Tags:
Someone close to Kerry could please tell him what has said today Canchellor Gerard Scho:der to the leading Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera: "NO SOLDIER EVEN WITH KERRY".
ps: Hi guys, I blog from Italy, and we support Bush through http://italianblogsforbush.blogspot.com/
c u.
Posted by: aa at October 26, 2004 05:27 PMSorry aa, the Bush administration and its supporters could not care less about Old Europe or what its people think.
Posted by: dawn at October 26, 2004 05:42 PMHey, just checking in to see if you guys had managed to "clear up" the story yet.
Posted by: Rick Blaine at October 26, 2004 06:27 PMAll righty, I'll give it a shot.
Early voting turnout is double what it was at this point last election. Admittedly it's one sturdy leg to stand on, but with all that turnout, what effect will this story really have?
Posted by: Shawn at October 26, 2004 11:06 PMrick check this out.
http://www.nysun.com/article/3826
it turns out that the UN was asked to destory the explosives in 1995, if they would have done that we would not be talking about this know.
In other words the UN failed again.
cube
Posted by: cube at October 27, 2004 02:08 PMIsn't that old news? (Old, as in, "what we have known since the story broke.") You still can't deny that the Bushies knew the explosives were there and didn't properly secure them (or, apparently, try).
Posted by: ugarte at October 27, 2004 03:06 PMMe again, just checking. Not clear yet, huh? Darn that media conspiracy.
Posted by: Rick Blaine at October 27, 2004 06:40 PM
